No, all of the contacts on my phone were deleted because the (unrequested) sync deleted all of them.
Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2015 schrieb Simos Xenitellis : > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.develo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I just lost two thirds of my phone contacts (with no backup) and I wanted to make sure it doesn't happen to you as well. >> >> A few minutes ago I upgraded my Nexus 4 to the latest rc-proposed image and instantly after rebooting it started a Google contacts sync. I've never done that before nor had I enabled it in the settings app. Due to the fact that my Gmail address book is always presented first when creating a new contact, lots of people whom I had handed my phone to entered their numbers into my Gmail address book instead of the system/personal one. >> Now when doing the contacts sync, my phone deleted all of these contacts. > > To make this clear, did the sync go towards the wrong direction (the empty local addressbook was pushed to the full online Google addressbook)? > Google Contacts have some versioning and you can recover/restore deleted contacts if you do this within 30 days of the mishap. > See more at, for example, http://blog.backupify.com/2013/10/14/google-apps-recovery-restore-lost-gmail-contacts/ > Simos >> >> In order to prevent this, make sure to >> >> 1) Turn all manually entered Gmail contacts into ones in the system/personal address book. >> 2) Back up your contacts before updating your phone. I think they should be in ~/.local/share/evolution, but no guarantee. >> >> By the way, I won't have time to file a bug report before the weekend if anyone comes up with that suggestion. >> >> Cheers, >> Niklas >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >
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