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Markkyboy

Hi guys,

as the title suggests, when I go to choose a contact, I find they have all doubled up, 2 of everyone!
I realised that Facebook was the culprit, so I removed the account, deleted all the duplications and rebooted.

All was fine until I decided to log back into Facebook, but through the native Sailfish browser, low and behold, all my contacts are doubled up, AGAIN! Grrr!

The FB app on my old N9 at least gave you some control over contacts showing/not showing, but there does not appear to be a way to do this with Jolla phone.

I'm getting a bit tired of deleting all these extra contacts - is this a bug or a dliberate move to roll all contacts into one?, if it is, it stinks, I don't like it and it needs to be changed!

Anyone else having this or similar problems?

Regards

Faz

I had a similar issue with duplicates when I copied over contacts from my N9. With N9 or N900 I would merge the contacts but Jolla seems to use a "Link" approach which I've seen on Android devices.

Open one of the duplicates, pull down to reveal the pulley menu and select Link. A screen will the be presented that will show any existing Links for this contact, followed by "Link suggestions". If none of the suggestions are appropriate pull down again and select "Add more links" form the pulley menu. This will then show all contacts, allowing you to link to any. Once the link is in place the duplicate should disappear.

This should resolve it, but just in case, I would suggest that you initially Link just one or two and log back into FB via the native browser to check they don't return, before doing the entire contacts.

Good luck.

Markkyboy

Nicely done, thanks Faz. As you instructed, I did a few contacts, closed contacts, opened fb in native browser, closed browser down, back in to contacts and things have stayed the same.
I have removed the built version of fb from the phone, the notifications list gets swamped and looks a right mess, using the browser is easier for what little I do on fb anyway.
Thanks again, for nice clear instructions. I will sort the whole contacts list tomorrow.
Cheers
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