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2020-06-16 14:14:58 +0200
@Oldmil Some months now it happen to me to search for a contact and realizing it was deleted. This happened 7-8 times as I noticed (maybe there are more and haven't found yet). Not sure why, in the first I thought I accidentally deleted them by leaving the screen on before I put the phone in my pocket.
Also one year ago as I was testing to synchronize contacts between phone and owncloud I ended up with deleted all contacts and only the ones from owncloud would appearing.
If you miss the contacts you can try to copy these directories to a safe place:
/home/nemo/.local/share/system/privileged/Contacts/qtcontacts-sqlite/
/home/nemo/.local/share/system/Contacts/qtcontacts-sqlite/
You might find some of your contacts in the second directory, in mysqlite database (let me know if you are familiar with terminal for these tasks).
If you can get them back again from your email it would be best.
Don't forget to make backups! You can use Jolla's backup.
I made a backup shell script that creates a .tar of contacts / calendar / call_log/ notes and browser history / bookmarks if you want it also let me know