[Evolution-users] "Add to Addressbook" - Save instead of "Add Copy"

[theapplepie at differentmail.com]

Thank you for all answers!


> looking into the code, the lookup is done for more than a decade,
> when
> you click "Edit Full", but it searches only the selected address
> book,
> not all of the address books.

The lookup seems to work well, it finds the corresponding existing
contact. But the saving of the changes into the existing contact is the
problem. It always wants to save a new copy ("Add Copy" which is a new
behaviour) instead of saving the changes into the existing contact like
in the past.

It also does not work on the newer 3.56 (Ubuntu 25.04).


> Sounds like a bug, but as a workaround, I would save the copy and
> then
> delete the original.

Thank you for the idea. But this is a bit cumbersome and I might delete
the wrong version :).
My current workaround is to just open the contact from the
Contacts/Adressbook and edit it there. But this involves many more
clicks and typing. The old way was more efficient.


> By any chance, when you run Evolution from a terminal, will it print
> anything like "Failed to get contacts: ...." on the terminal, when
> you
> click the "Edit Full" button, please?

Nothing was printed. I also tried with
CARDDAV_DEBUG=1 /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory -w >&
logfile
CARDDAV_DEBUG=1 FOO_DEBUG=1 /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-
factory -w >& logfile
(from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/wikis/Debugging)

The "Edit Full" works fine, the existing and correct contact opens
without problem. But saving the changes into the existing contact is
not possible as it says ""Contact already exists in the address book."
and asks me to either "Cancel" or "Add Copy". But I don't want to add
another contact with the same name and address (with the new changes).
But rather I prefer the old behaviour to just save the edits/changes to
the (pre-)existing contact.
Could it be possible to change this behaviour or add another option
"Save to existing contact" (or something similar)? Maybe there is an
option somewhere in the setting I could not find.

Thanks again
Dan