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Where is the contacts.vcf stored?

Open Klaasstap opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Device info

<Samsung Galaxy A5 2017> Manufacturer: Android version: 11 Custom ROM/rooted? /e/OS, not rooted Model:

System info

<Linux, Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS> Available disk space: 370 Gb Operating system:


The Companion app is working and exports the data, including the contacts. But in the zipped archive I cannot find the csv-file. I found something with 'contacts' in the name, but it's 0 byte. By coincidence I found a contacts file in a temporarily folder called computer/tmp/pid-5807. Is this the file that the Companion app has saved for me?

Restoring the contacts didn´t work previously for me, also. But I haven´t tried it this time, because it wasn´t needed.

Thanks for the good work, man!

Klaasstap avatar Jan 10 '24 00:01 Klaasstap

That's weird. Contact .vcf files (there's one file per contact) are copied from your device directly to a ./backup-tmp/Contacts folder - so they should be in the zipped archive.

Can you see the .vcf files in a folder called open-android-backup-temp in your phone's internal storage (right after you clicked the "Export Data" button, but before you notified the script of the export by pressing Enter)? If so, then the issue is caused by the bash script and I'd need logs to debug this.

mrrfv avatar Jan 11 '24 18:01 mrrfv