Can't delete old Recently Contacted group in Contacts

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1

I’ve got an old ‘Recently Contacted’ contact group I can’t get rid of. It appears for all users in Nextcolud.

I think this problem stems from an old installation of Nextcloud getting mixed up with my new installation. A fresh Nextcloud Docker container in Unraid had a ‘Recently Contacted’ contact group with emails that seem to line up with the last container.

When I try to delete the group it gives me the error ‘Deletion of address book was not successful.’

I think what will help me is to find where these old contacts are stored and delete them through the server’s terminal. I tried to look at places in the below error but don’t see anything I can match up.

The log shows this:
[webdav] Error: Exception: This addressbook is immutable at <>

  1. /var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Tree.php line 179
    OCA\ContactsInteraction\AddressBook->delete()
  2. /var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/CorePlugin.php line 281
    Sabre\DAV\Tree->delete(“addressbooks/us 
 t”)
  3. /var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/event/lib/WildcardEmitterTrait.php line 89
    Sabre\DAV\CorePlugin->httpDelete([“Sabre\HTTP\Request”], [“Sabre\HTTP\Response”])
  4. /var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php line 472
    Sabre\DAV\Server->emit(“method:DELETE”, [["Sabre\HTTP\ 
 ]])
  5. /var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php line 253
    Sabre\DAV\Server->invokeMethod([“Sabre\HTTP\Request”], [“Sabre\HTTP\Response”])
  6. /var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php line 321
    Sabre\DAV\Server->start()
  7. /var/www/html/apps/dav/lib/Server.php line 364
    Sabre\DAV\Server->exec()
  8. /var/www/html/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php line 35
    OCA\DAV\Server->exec()
  9. /var/www/html/remote.php line 172
    require_once(“/var/www/html/a 
 p”)

DELETE /remote.php/dav/addressbooks/users/admin/z-app-generated–contactsinteraction–recent/
from 172.70.114.120 by admin at 2023-09-04T16:35:30+00:00

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Nextcloud Hub 5 (27.0.2)
From the official Docker installed on Unraid.

2

I’ve deleted the old docker container and it’s still there. Also, there’s an email address in the recently contacted that I actually did contact in the last couple weeks.

I’m not sure when I linked these contacts but turinging them off completely would be enough for me.

3

I found the remote.php file in the log and the carddav.php file mentioned in that file. But opening it up doesn’t show me my contacts or a way to get rid of the recently contacted section. I’m at a dead end now.

function resolveService($service) {
$services = [
‘webdav’ => ‘dav/appinfo/v1/webdav.php’,
‘dav’ => ‘dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php’,
‘caldav’ => ‘dav/appinfo/v1/caldav.php’,
‘calendar’ => ‘dav/appinfo/v1/caldav.php’,
‘carddav’ => ‘dav/appinfo/v1/carddav.php’,
‘contacts’ => ‘dav/appinfo/v1/carddav.php’,
‘files’ => ‘dav/appinfo/v1/webdav.php’,
‘direct’ => ‘dav/appinfo/v2/direct.php’,
];

4

Another thing I want to try is disabling ‘contacts interation’ as described here:

But I can’t find this setting anywhere.

Clicking between the ‘Address Books’ and ‘General Settings’ in the Contact Settings section doesn’t change anything. Maybe there’s something I’m doing wrong there


5

If anyone is as stupid as me; this is an actual app that you disable in the ‘apps’ section of nextcloud, not a setting in the contacts app.

I’m still curios how this contacts interaction works and how to get it linked to my protonmail but that’s for another fight.