Confusion with many WebDAV address books

[Hartmut]

Automatically my contacts get confused from time to time:

• some dissappear
• several instances of WebDAV address books are beings activated

I like to have and stay with exactly one address book!
How can this be ensured?

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[obacht]

What´s your setup like besides your phone-model?

• What is the WebDAV-counterpart to your phone? Murena-cloud? other?
• And how is your phone´s adressbook set up? “Murena adressbook”-account? other type of account?
  (check @ → system settings → accounts…) multiple accounts?
• Do you use an extra app like DAVx5 or strictly only eOS-tools / settings?

For e.g. Murena-cloud one simple setup would be to…

• define the Murena adressbook- account,
• set this account as default for contacts in settings of contacts-app,
• define visible contacts therein
• and that should be it…

[Hartmut]

Good question: I have several entries under Accounts (Konten in German):
my e.email address “…@e.email” with “Murena.io”,
then “…@e.email” with “WebDAV”,
then "Kontakte (…@e.email 1Q) with “WebDAV-Adressbuch”,
then "Webmail (…@e.email yw) with “WebDAV-Adressbuch”,
then "pb (…@e.email 1g) with “WebDAV-Adressbuch”.

1. The first entry seems to be okay. But where from are the others? An I cannot see them in my murena cloud??
2. I am not aware to use other apps and happy to use only eOS-tools.
3. If I enter the WebDAV address book entries I find under ‘Account extra settings’ always two times my email address. By ticking each under ‘contacts’ (besides calendar and WEBCAL) always these three entries appear apparently as ‘folder names’:
   i. contacts
   ii. Webmail, contacts imported from snappymail
   iii pb
   Where does all this come from and how to get eventually rid off it and avoid this for the future?

[obacht]

sounds odd … No idea what You did to get these entries… maybe from some import-operation or the like…

I should say I do not use the murena cloud and services, there might be more knowldegeable people around here…

Yet still, what I would do: uncheck these three entries/folders one by one to unsync them and see what happens ( → slider on left side of entry)
best case you can then simply delete two of them and keep the one you want/that works for you

And as long as you simply want to sync with your murena-cloud (more specific: contacts that are stored there) and the above does not help - you might still get rid of all these accounts, start from scratch and set up one “Murena.io” account * (might be needed to set up also “Murena.io Adressbuch” if that does not happen automatically)

*During setup make sure to immediately uncheck (= no sync) everything that you do not want to sync (like eg music, documents photos and the like)

[Hartmut]

Thanks, that sounds reasonable and I was already thinking like this as well.
But I feel not happy to not knowing, how these entries are appearing again and again and confusing my address book consistency.
I hope, someone from Murena / eOS development could help.

[marcdw]

On my phones there are only two Murena accounts shown, one for cloud/sync and one for contacts. One login sets up both. There should not be anything else other than accounts setup or used by other apps.