Evolution cannot merge a second email

[libi]

Binary package hint: evolution

having a contact in the adreesbook, I can't merge infos when this one send me
an e-mail with a different account. Right clicking on his second e-mail address
in order to add this new address into the addressbook, evolution warn me with
the "existing user" message, but the MERGE button is deselected and
cannot be pressed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 11 22:27:15 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
Package: evolution 2.12.0-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evolution
ProcCwd: /home/libi
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux libi-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 06:00:47 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that works fine here in my desktop with Gutsy, not confirming, Does evolution trow anything in the command line when you try to merge the contacts?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

[jolay (jo-lay)]

I am not sure if this is exactly the same bug that I frequently notice on Evolution. My symptom is as follows:

- I edit a contact. Actually, I wanted to add a mobile phone number to an existing number.
- On saving (click on button Validate), Evolution warns for a duplicate contact but does not propose merging.
The names of the contacts are different, the contact I was editing (named yoyo) contains two e-mail adresses, one of which is the same as that of the duplicate (yoyotex). This second contact seems to have been generated automatically from received e-mail.

I include the two vcf files as exported by evolution for testing if it is confirmed (I modified the name).

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uname -a
Linux bombyx-dellm65 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
up to date

evolution 2.12.1

[André Pirard (a.pirard)]

Evolution 2.24.3 on Ubuntu 8.10.
Because of lack of doc and warning, "try if it works" philosophy, help us, and no group deletion enforcement when deleting partnerships, I found myself with my contacts hexadecaplicated (yes, that's 16 for 1, glorious).
I followed someone's advice that if I moved my contacts to another Address Book, they would be monoplicated.
OK, thanks. Indeed, Evolution asks, twice for each pair of doubles, whether they should be merged.
If I moved a set of 16 duplicate entries, it worked, but I didn't click MERGE 30 times each very long.
If I moved the 16 entries of one contact in smaller batches, the first set would move, but further sets would most often be impossible to move because the MERGE button was grayed out.
Even for a single succeeding entry : sometime MERGE available, sometime not, unpredictable.
As all the sets of 16 doubles were made of 16 identical entries, and the merged entry was the same, there is no conceivable reason why MERGE was clickable during a first batch and unavailable later.
As my entries were identical anyway, I deleted duplicates instead, which was faster too.
But with a thought for those who would actually need the merge.
This is an invalid report, they say.
Remove that tag and experiment under this new light if you wish.