Thread: Hermes Thread: questions, suggestions regarding Facebook, Twitter, etc. contact synchronization
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rantom
2010-08-09 , 18:55
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Originally Posted by fredrik_wendt View Post
Hi. Sorry to hear about your bad experience.

As you wrote yourself, there's an option to not add "birthday only" friends. That should solve one of your issues (I counted to three, and this would perhaps at least partially solve the check list request?)
Where is this? I couldn't find it from Hermes.

The Surname, Firstname sounds interesting though - if you and your friend(s) don't mind, please provide an example of a name that should've matched, but didn't so we can reproduce that.
Well, it's a bit too late now, sorry. I already fixed my contacts but basically I did it like this (by the way, see bug #10721):
  1. Set the contacts in Surname, Firstname order.
  2. Launch Hermes.
  3. Press Refresh.
  4. You'll get contacts imported (after verification, if not already verified to Facebook).
  5. Hermes creates new contacts, that are in Firstname Surname order and as new contacts, instead of assigned Surname, Firstname to already existing contacts.

    And as a sidenote, Hermes also automatically imports avatars from Facebook-users to the already existing and the new ones, without asking.

And, if you've merged the new duplicate contacts with the real ones, then Hermes should recognize that the next time you update/refresh and associate the merged (real) contact with the friend on Facebook (as long as you didn't remove the web page/link/URL from the merged contact).
(If somehow it doesn't work this way - because it should - please write here again and we'll find and fix the bug.)

Hope this helps to relieve some of your pain!
This worked fine, Hermes did not separate the already fixed contacts, since I did the Refresh again.

Thanks for the help though. I've already reported a bug to the Bugzilla regarding the birthday, see bug #11103.
Last edited by rantom; 2010-08-09 at 18:58. Reason: More info.