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Is there a way to expunge deleted contacts

Asked by AJenbo

In the web ui i see 236 contacts but in couchdb i see 339, some with a deleted value in them, is there any way to purge theas old contacts?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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AJenbo (ajenbo) said : 		#2

I sill need an answer

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Best Eric Casteleijn (thisfred) said : 		#3

To prevent accidental data removal, desktopcouch and/or the web-ui never actually delete records, but mark them as deleted. If you are sure you want to permanently delete them, removing the deleted records from you local couchdb will just work. (As in they will then also be deleted from the Ubuntu One servers after the next replication.)

Note that the way deleted records are handled is about to change in 11.04, where instead of the deleted flag, records will be removed from the database, and moved to a database called 'dc_trash', which should make it a lot easier to remove all records from there, and make it less confusing to sort through the records in actual live databases.

Hope this helps.

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AJenbo (ajenbo) said : 		#4

Thanks for the answer.

That sounds like a grate change. One of the reasons i wanted to clear it up was that i was having issues syncing to my phone and some computer, and would like to cut down on the transmitted data.

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AJenbo (ajenbo) said : 		#5

Thanks Eric Casteleijn, that solved my question.