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[Geoff Lowther <ubuntuone@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's allowed me to do it thanks... also used the following link;
http://askubuntu.com/questions/365675/backup-export-contacts-from-ubuntu-touch-official-launch-r100-ubuntu-13-10-a
using the answer from Robin Geyer, to use the command;
syncevolution --export /home/phablet/Documents/utcontacts.vcf 
backend=evolution-contacts

Think I've found the problem though. looking at the exported vcf file, 
there is only one entry for some of the people that are listed twice.

Looking at Contacts|Settings I can see that I have a Personal address 
book, a Personal-gmail address book and also a Google (Icon) gmail 
address book.

Any ideas how I can delete the extra ones out of the phone? I have set 
in 'System Settings'|Accounts so that the Google account only gives 
Google Calendar access to the account and not You Tube, Dekko or Contacts.

Thanks
Geoff


On 04/04/16 11:33, royden yates wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:41:27 +0100
> Geoff Lowther <ubuntuone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I realize that there's a lot of talk on here at the moment
> > about being able to back up the phone to a
> > desktop/server/cloud somewhere - I agree that the phone needs
> > this facility as otherwise I'm stepping back to before I had a
> > Palm Treo 650 - that had a separate program on the desktop
> > that ran primarily under windows but ran equally as nicely
> > under wine.
> >
> > I reluctantly put my contacts onto google and 'upgraded' to a
> > HTC Desire running Android 2.x or similar when the Treo was on
> > it's last legs, realizing that at this point I had really lost
> > control of where my data is/was. I am now trying to take
> > control of it again...
> >
> > I am trying to sort out my contacts on my MX4.
> >
> > I synced the MX4 with google originally (September time 2015)
> > and it seemed to corrupt google contacts by losing some
> > complete entries and losing fields in other entries -
> > fortunately I could restore the contacts in google. I then
> > removed the syncing and ran it completely separately - not
> > ideal, but works for the most part.
> >
> > I had to relink to my google account again for another reason
> > (it escapes me why at the moment) and I now have duplicates in
> > my address book that I want to rationalize.
> >
> >   From what I believed, the contacts are stored as a db file
> > under home/phablet/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system
> > called contacts.db. I believed as well that it is really an
> > evolution contacts database file (more than just stored there
> > in a clever format).
> >
> > I therefore tried to be clever, installed evolution on my
> > desktop PC and then copied the contacts.db file across and
> > replaced the file
> > in /home/namehere/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system
> >
> > When I open evolution it can't seem to access that file though
> > (I've set the permissions the same) - may be just something to
> > do with the address book names inside the contacts.db file but
> > don't know.
> >
> > Does anyone have any 'end-user' type ideas for how to open the
> > contacts file in a readable way so that I can modify it,
> > re-save it, then transfer it back down to the phone please.
> >
> > I'm not a programmer, but more of an end-user who understands
> > sufficiently about Linux to 'get by' sometimes on the command
> > line but preferring to use a GUI where possible.
> >
> > Any suggestions welcome
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Geoff
> Hi, see
> https://gurucubano.gitbooks.io/bq-aquaris-e-4-5-ubuntu-phone/content/en/chapter9.html
>
> Might be some pointers there.
>
> Regards,
>
> Royden