Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

I realize that this is the same issue with emails. If I delete my emails on the N900, it also gets deleted on my gmail account. To make it worse, it doesn't go to trash or deleted item, it just vanishes from your account without a trace.

Also, how do you get MSN? I thought it doesn't come with the phone and I can't seem to find a MSN messenger for the phone except for aMSN.

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

Is there any way to Archive Gmail emails on the N900?

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

There's no such thing. The contacts list is really just like the contacts list in Pidgin. If you add an account (Google, MSN, ICQ, Skype, whatever), then all of the contacts are downloaded and magically appear in your contacts list. If you remove the account, the contacts disappear.

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

MNX1024: Have you enabled Extras in your Application Manager yet? If so, install "account-plugin-haze" and you will get all of the Pidgin account types.

("haze" is a reference to "purple haze", libpurple being the library used by Pidgin for all of the different account types)

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

Yes. I don't trust electronic backups. I have a document that I keep my contacts in, and I print it out when I update it. No electromagnetic pulse will erase that paper. :p

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

I think this could be solved with a simple dialogue when deleting one or more contacts.

"You can choose to delete contacts from this phone only (locally), which only affects your phone, or to delete them from your buddy lists on MSN & Skype as well as your phone. How do you want to delete the following contacts?

john (MSN), fred (MSN), jjx (Skype)

[Delete locally] [Delete from server] [Cancel]

Btw, is there a bugs.maemo.org entry for this yet?

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

That sucks!!!! Nokia should seperate online and phone contacts. And we all should make a backup of online contacts as a lesson :D

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

I have the same thing :)

But I find I sometimes forget to update it, when I add someone's number to my phone and I'm not near the computer to edit the document.

When that's happened, they tend to stay off the document forever, even if they are people I'm calling a lot - after all if I knew they weren't on the document, I'd have put them on already.

It's a long job to go through phone contacts comparing them against the list in the document.

Of course with N900 it's possible to edit the document right there when a contact is added :-) But I know that I'll forget sometimes, being in a rush or whatever.

This is why they invented things like SyncML. But there's that uneasy feeling that it might delete or corrupt something silently - unless a syncing app has really proven itself to be rock solid.

I've used Nokia PC Suite with other Nokia phones, and that does mangle contacts on a regular basis - because the fields it shows in the contacts view are very limited, and not at all as complete as the fields in the phone's contacts database.

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

Well, lets say I add my MSN contact list, which is quite huge...:)
I'd like to have a different list of MSN contacts on the N900 to keep the contact list clean. There's probably a way to do that....not that I know...I'm getting my N900 somewhere Q1 2010 :)

Re: Deleted all contacts on my N900, lost my Skype and other IM contact lists from last 6 years
 

Typical b/s that you hear from Nokia...tut

Well basically, to save yourself from this pain & anger, try to backup the most important contacts you have. It's always important to back everything up. I know you can't backup every single thing you add on, but at least the most important stuff you should.