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Strive_Masiwa 2010-02-10 17:38
Re: Easy Contacts Merging???
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by mwerle (Post 519620)
Auto-matching just on names is dangerous - how many John Smith's are out there?
Auto-matching on something unique (eg, email address) should be fine.
Agreed (even though I have no 2 entries that match exactly on FirstName+LastName).
I am not sure what unique key could be used other than FirstName+LastName. It has to be something that is commonly used in all the protocols. I am not sure people use the same email address for msn as yahoo as ICQ as FB chat. Thats why I suggested FirstName+LastName. More matches (at east on my contacts list) that way.

Strive_Masiwa 2010-02-10 18:10
Re: Easy Contacts Merging???
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by mankir (Post 519631)
This bug was "un-merged":D. Here is the current one:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6859

mwerle 2010-02-11 07:44
Re: Easy Contacts Merging???
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Strive_Masiwa (Post 519805)
Agreed (even though I have no 2 entries that match exactly on FirstName+LastName).
I am not sure what unique key could be used other than FirstName+LastName. It has to be something that is commonly used in all the protocols. I am not sure people use the same email address for msn as yahoo as ICQ as FB chat. Thats why I suggested FirstName+LastName. More matches (at east on my contacts list) that way.
I would still prefer to manually merge contacts where there is no uniquely identifying field than merge two (or more) completely unrelated contacts just based on having the same name. Automatic functionality should only ever kick in when there is no chance of it going wrong.

fletchem 2010-02-11 10:32
Re: Easy Contacts Merging???
 
I agree with the manual merge. I have merged quite a few Outlook and IM contacts only to have multiple occurrences of the same item such as a mobile number - one with the international code at the front (from Skype) and one without (from Outlook). It is frustrating as I get a huge list of potential numbers to call/SMS/Skype whenever I open a contact window and in many cases they are the same numbers.

Monniman 2010-02-12 20:35
Re: Easy Contacts Merging???
 
I just added facebook chat using jabber http://thenokiablog.com/2010/02/10/h...ut-of-the-box/

and this doubled my about 900 contacts. All doubles have the same lastname firstname format!

A merge by name is a must feature!!! Aaargh!

Hangas 2010-02-18 01:29
Re: Easy Contacts Merging???
 
I don't think auto merge on name is worth it. And it's dangerous.

I have 3 different persons with the same name. And two of them are co-workers. (A middle name field would also be nice for this one, but that's a different story).

I don't mind the manual merge, as long as I only have to do it once!

But somehow the facebook plugin keeps un-merging random contacts.

Also the auto add contact when you send an email for a new email address is quite annoying.


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