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I just installed WhatsUp (a WhatsApp client for Jolla). Because I knew that it would sync my contacts with WhatsApp's servers, I wanted to clean old contacts out of my address book first. So I used the People app to delete contacts. These contacts were never stored on the SIM card and they were never synced to any cloud service like Google (unless the Jolla account does that without my knowledge?).

Then I started WhatsUp. ALL THE CONTACTS I HAD DELETED WERE STILL THERE AND SYNCED WITH WHATSAPP'S SERVERS, which is exactly the opposite of what I had wanted.

I ended up opening the Contacts database (~/.local/share/system/Contacts/qtcontacts-sqlite/contacts.db) in sqlite3. Sure enough, the "deleted" contacts were still present in the Contacts table. Deleting them manually using the sqlite3 prompt worked, but this is of course a highly unsatisfactory solution: It is tedious, it is error-prone (typos!), and it is not something that the average user should have to do.

Please fix this issue by making sure that the People app has some way to permanently delete contacts from the database.

I just installed WhatsUp (a WhatsApp client for Jolla). Because I knew that it would sync my contacts with WhatsApp's servers, I wanted to clean old contacts out of my address book first. So I used the People app to delete contacts. These contacts were never stored on the SIM card and they were never synced to any cloud service like Google (unless the Jolla account does that without my knowledge?).

Then I started WhatsUp. ALL THE CONTACTS I HAD DELETED WERE STILL THERE AND SYNCED WITH WHATSAPP'S SERVERS, which is exactly the opposite of what I had wanted.

I ended up opening the Contacts database (~/.local/share/system/Contacts/qtcontacts-sqlite/contacts.db) in sqlite3. Sure enough, the "deleted" contacts were still present in the Contacts table. Deleting them manually using the sqlite3 prompt worked, but this is of course a highly unsatisfactory solution: It is tedious, it is error-prone (typos!), and it is not something that the average user should have to do.

Please fix this issue by making sure that the People app has some way to permanently delete contacts from the database.

I just installed WhatsUp (a WhatsApp client for Jolla). Because I knew that it would sync my contacts with WhatsApp's servers, I wanted to clean old contacts out of my address book first. So I used the People app to delete contacts. These contacts were never stored on the SIM card and they were never synced to any cloud service like Google (unless the Jolla account does that without my knowledge?).

Then I started WhatsUp. ALL THE CONTACTS I HAD DELETED WERE STILL THERE AND SYNCED WITH WHATSAPP'S SERVERS, which is exactly the opposite of what I had wanted.

I ended up opening the Contacts database (~/.local/share/system/Contacts/qtcontacts-sqlite/contacts.db) in sqlite3. Sure enough, the "deleted" contacts were still present in the Contacts table. Deleting them manually using the sqlite3 prompt worked, but this is of course a highly unsatisfactory solution: It is tedious, it is error-prone (typos!), and it is not something that the average user should have to do.

Please fix this issue by making sure that the People app has some way to permanently delete contacts from the database.