asked 2020-06-16 01:04:16 +0300
For whatever reason, today SFOS Rokua 3.3 dumped most of my contacts which I had imported from my email account. I've been playing around with the Xperia X without success trying to get them back.
Anyone else experience this?
answered 2020-06-16 14:14:58 +0300
@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
Have you tried restore - does it work? I mean copy the content of those directories.
I personally don't like the idea to send my contacts via WLAN to some server, or maintain infrastructure especially for syncing.
I still don't understand why BUTEO-SYNCML was abandoned. For this reason I created some patches and uplifted the code to use bluez5. Now I am syncing contacts to local PC via bluetooth.
deloptes ( 2020-06-17 08:16:15 +0300 )edit@deloptes yes, recently I did restore all I mention in the last line after reinstallation of SailFishOS, and everything worked perfectly! I don't remember though if I stopped any service before restoration of contacts. I used root user from command line. Also since the backup was with tar from root user the privileges were right, or at least I don't remember had any problems to set them up correctly or to take me much time.
I wouldn't like the idea to send my contacts using a non-secure connection, or a 3rd party service too. You can use ssh(over USB) to transfer the backup file or any home hosted nextcloud service.
Also the reason I ended up copying the .sqlite files was that Jolla's backup didn't work well for me some years ago, messing the non ASCII characters and backup only part of the details of the contacts.
nas ( 2020-06-17 15:04:08 +0300 )edit@nas appreciate your answer, but regarding SSH, I do not have this activated on my daily phone.
I prefer the solution that was working for me on the N9 and before (Bluetooth and Syncevolution).
It still works - I only have to compile and install 4 packages after each upgrade of SFOS - which is annoying and this is when I need the SSH.
On daily bases I just enable BT on the phone and on the PC and press the sync button on the PC. That's it! No WLAN, No Servers, No BS!
deloptes ( 2020-06-17 17:22:43 +0300 )editAsked: 2020-06-16 01:04:16 +0300
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