Comment 5 for bug 151688

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.