Choose Contacts Account VCF save

[Rlin5741]

It looks like Samsung, in addition to taking away our option to choose "just once" when opening files, phone number and email links so we can avoid setting a default, the contacts app no longer asks you which account you want to save a contact to (i.e. which gmail account, exchange account, or other cloud contact management). While you can select an account when you first create a new contact, you can't select a destination account when importing or saving VCF files. The older versions of Samsung software on my GS5 allowed me to select a destination account every time.

Does anyone know of a workaround? How does the phone decide which account is the "default" save to account - I got lucky and its saving to the right one, but how do I redirect it if it was saving to the wrong account?

PS: I know about the "clear defaults" function in the application settings. I already cleared defaults for my contacts app, it doesn't impact this issue - it will allow me to select a different app to use to open the VCF file, but not a destination account for the imported contact.

 

[Alanhd]

In my contact settings it allows me to send any device contacts to either my google account or my Samsung account, not sure how to switch contacts between the two accounts tho.

 

[Rlin5741]

In my contact settings it allows me to send any device contacts to either my google account or my Samsung account, not sure how to switch contacts between the two accounts tho.

Is this the "share" feature that you see after hitting "more" while viewing a given contact? I believe this is to send an existing contact, not import/open a contact you received via email (or other medium).

My contact setting are here. There in an import option that will allow me to import to specific accounts, but oddly enough it doesn't allow me to select specific "vcf" files. It pulls in every vcf it finds.

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[Alanhd]

Is this the "share" feature that you see after hitting "more" while viewing a given contact? I believe this is to send an existing contact, not import/open a contact you received via email (or other medium).

My contact setting are here. There in an import option that will allow me to import to specific accounts, but oddly enough it doesn't allow me to select specific "vcf" files. It pulls in every vcf it finds.

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No the option shows up underneath import/export contacts but as soon as I use it, it disappears, so I'm assuming you don't have any contacts saved to your device.

I'm sure on my S5 I used to be able to move the contacts from one account to the other. Maybe this will be fixed in a software update.