[Rtcomm] [Rtcomm] [Bug 5480] undo/un-merge merged contacts

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5480





------- Comment #16 from jamie at shareable.org  2009-12-06 13:08 GMT+3 -------
(In reply to comment #13)
> After that I had two contacts where I didn't know how to separate
> phone and Skype information without loosing my Skype contact on the server.
> Fortunately hex's posting guided me into the right direction:
> 
> I duplicated the contact in PC Suite's contact manager (fortunately it doesn't
> copy Skype information so we get a 'clean' copy).

Ow.  That's pretty complicated.  People who don't google hard enough are likely
to just delete and recreate the contact - and then get bitten by "deleting
contact info removes entry from the IM server" surprise (surprising for a phone
contact list, not an IM client).

PC Suite does not run on Linux, so what are Linux users to do?  Is there any
option for them, other than losing their server-side Skype and IM friends after
an accidental contact merge?

It also seems like taking advantage of a bug in PC Suite - that it does not
copy the Skype info.

When I have helped someone else use PC Suite with a S60 phone, it didn't show
all the contact fields in the GUI, so I don't think I would trust PC Suite with
a valuable contact database anyway.  That's another issue.  But it's
interesting that the solution to the merge/un-merge issue is to take advantage
of PC Suite's lossy handling of contact fields beyond the very few simple ones
it knows about.


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