Contacts: Merge duplicate contacts [$70]

[silverhook]

In the old contacts you were able to consolidate or merge two contact entries into one.

Example how this could work:

• Alice is in the contact list twice
• select both contacts for Alice
• a “merge” button appears
• click on the “merge” button
• the two entries for Alice merge into one (if needed, user can be prompted regarding collisions)

This was particularly useful after importing contacts or syncing between several devices.

It would be great to have this option in the new contacts app as well.

As a bonus, a command to scan all your contacts for such duplicates and to consolidate them, would be awesome.

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[Staja]

At the very least, it would be good if the vCard UID was respected and if an existing contact with the same UID was found, it will replace the attributes with the imported ones.

[skjnldsv]

@Staja Could you open a separate feature request please? This is very different :)

[aviallon]

Bounty is now 70$...

[Exagone313]

As a temporary workaround, I have made a Python script to deduplicate entries in VCF export.

https://gitlab.com/Exagone313/dotfiles/-/blob/master/shell/pythonscript/vcf-dedup

[wadouk]

Thunderbird and CardBook plugin are good at this game