Deleting automatically linked contacts deletes the contact from all accounts, even if solely viewing it with one account visible via the filter.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

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Affected app version

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/org.fossify.contacts_2.apk ¹

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

[ro.build.version.release]: [13]
[ro.build.display.id]: [FP5.TT3L.A.106.20230918]

Affected device model

[ro.product.brand]: [Fairphone]
[ro.build.product]: [FP5]

How did you install the app?

F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Install apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/org.fossify.contacts_2.apk.

2. Have a contact in ≥ 2 accounts which contain identical data.

3. Filter, so that solely one account's contacts are visible.

4. Delete the contact.

5. Re-enable the alternative accounts storing the same data.

6. Attempt to locate the contact which should remain stored in those accounts.

Expected behavior

The contact should remain stored in those alternative accounts.

Actual behavior

Because the contact was automatically linked with those alternative accounts, it was deleted from all of those accounts, irrespective of the filter applied.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Additional information

Potentially related to issues/106.

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Contacts/releases/download/1.0.1/contacts-2-foss-release.apk ↩

[Aga-C]

It's a duplicate #106.

[Tchiller]

@Aga-C Hi. I believe, this is not a duplicate, as in the mentioned bug, only the behaviour for non-merged contacts was fixed. I just lost quite a bunch of contacts as I filtered to only showing google contacts, deleted them, put the filter for my other accounts back in and found them to be deleted completely. Could we consider on reopening this? As we do not have a waste bin and as even deleting contacts in google contacts itself will not remove them from my fossify contacts app, I am now a bit stuck. Thank you.

[naveensingh]

@RokeJulianLockhart, do you also have this issue?