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Originally Posted by GreatGonzo View Post
I think we are making progress on identifying the cause of the disappearing contacts. It looks like my wife synch'ed them originally from the nokia account (ovi), which seem to have lost them in the meantime. So know it assumes that they are deleted and does the same on the device. Why this hasn't happened before is the question?
Aw I hate to break it to ya but Nokia got rid of some Ovi services, The contacts and some file syncing stuff If I remember correctly, I remember seeing the announcment on the ovi contacts site last year where they were saying to export your stuff before it's gone.

One reason I used to avoid using syncing services for contacts was with mail for exchange for example, if its conflict preference is set to server, and you try sync from a phone with no contacts, you'd wipe your contacts from the server.
It's ok if you know what you're doing, bit it's a fine line between restoring your contacts and deleting all traces of them completely.

Good news though....
I found this announcment for ya.
http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/...-discontinued/


If you sign in you can still get them back here apparently:
https://exportcontacts.ovi.com/

Fingers crossed eh.