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Questions tagged [contacts]

Questions relating to the management, synchronization and use of contact data within Ubuntu

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How to integrate Gnome Contacts with Thunderbird?

I have contacts in Gnome Contacts and I want to integrate/sync them with Thunderbird. How do I integrate Gnome Contacts with Thunderbird? Note: Due to the replies received, I should mention that this issue is not related in any way with Google…
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How to integrate Gmail, Google contacts and Google calendar into Unity without Thunderbird or Evolution?

I want to integrate my Google contacts, calender and Gmail to Unity. And I don´t want to use Thunderbird or even worse Evolution. Is there a possibility like in GNOME 3.xx? A lightweight contact / calendar / mail app (maybe one app for contact, one…
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How do I sync contacts on Ubuntu Touch?

How do I sync (upload to/download from) my contacts, with my Ubuntu Touch OS?
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Set default account in Empathy metacontact

When I link contacts in empathy, facebook becomes the default account used in a new chat. Is there a way to change the default account? I'd like to avoid using facebook whenever possible, and instead have different preferred accounts to use for…
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Can I directly dial phone numbers from Evolution's address book?

Is there a way to directly dial phone numbers from Evolution's address book? I have an ISDN phone on my desk connected via USB. I've written a shell script that uses a phone number on the command line and then dials this number. The missing step is…
Stefan Armbruster
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How to/When sync gmail contacts with ubuntu one?

Will it be possible to sync my gmail contacts with Ubuntu One, like we can do this with contacts from Facebook? There is some sentence in Ubuntu One preferences which suggests that we can do it already. I want to sync my contacts from gmail, not…
Micky
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UbuntuOne contact synching for Thunderbird?

Is it possible to sync UbuntuOne contacts with Thunderbird's address book?
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Google contacts sync on Ubuntu Touch

Why doesn't google contacts synchronization work on my Ubuntu touch? Is there is another way to copy my contacts? I saved it on my SIM card but there are no options to show my SIM's contacts How should I proceed?
Luca Di Mambro
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Empathy online contacts do not show up

The problem After upgrading from 12.10. to 13.04. empathy doesn't show online contacts anymore. All accounts seem to be affected by this (facebook, ICQ). Sporadically a contact is listed as online for a few moments but then disappears again (I guess…
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Ubuntu One Contacts Sync Error

I have synced my contacts with Ubuntu One, however, an error occurred, and I have instead of 300 contacts over 1700 contacts and all are messed up. How can I delete all contacts, and restart the sync process? I tried deleting the contacts via…
user9842
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Best way to dedupe my Thunderbird addressbook?

I've got a ton of duplicate contacts in my Thunderbird addressbook. I don't want to share them with Google, but I do want to find a way to de-dupe them. There was a duplicate contact manager plug in, but it seems to have been abandoned. Can I do…
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Best software for local Contact/Calendar sync to Android?

After 4 years on mac, I am switching back to Ubuntu. For OSX and for Windows there are tons of apps that sync your Contacts/Calendar to Android "cloud-less" over USB or Bluetooth like SyncMate, MyPhoneExplorer, MissingSync, etc. I am looking for…
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How to merge duplicate contacts from evolution

Is there a way to merge two contacts in evolution or with another program relying on evolutio-data-server? I found this two options but they are pretty much out of date: Plugin, Perl Script
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Thunderbird Contact Sync to Ubuntu One

Possible Duplicate: Thunderbird Contacts sync with Ubuntu One How can I synchronize Thunderbird contacts with Ubuntu one?
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Where are Empathy's contact-links stored?

I linked a bunch of contacts from MSN and Google Talk with the new empathy feature, Now I want to export this configuration to my desktop so i don't have to make the same changes again and again. Does anyone know where this contact-linking…
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