vCard import merges into wrong name

This must have something to do with the scoring system for matching 
names. It seems that if the imported vCard "FN" field does not exactly 
match the BitPim "Full" name field, then other fields will likely take 
higher precedence in deciding the match. This leads to some crazy 
results.

I had entered phone numbers for a relative and her two next door 
neighbors into the phone and then retrieved them into bitpim's database 
with get phonebook. All had the same area code and similar if not the 
same exchange. As with most of my relatives I edited the "Full" name 
field to be a nickname because that is what I want to appear on the 
phone. (eg First=John, Last=Smith, Full=Smitty; [names changed from 
actual]) The neighbors were as might be expected (ie First=Fred, 
Last=Johnson, Full= Fred Johnson and First=Mary, Last=Jones, Full=Mary 
Jones)

Now I added addresses to John Smith, Fred Johnson, and Mary Jones in 
Mac OS AddressBook and exported a vCard file. Naturally, as neighbors, 
they all had similar addresses with same street, city, state and zip 
code. I believe the first address, say Fred Johnson,  imported 
correctly because there was an  exact "FN"="Full" match. I don't 
remember for sure about the second (ie Mary Jones.) But BitPim 
persisted in wanting to add John Smith's address as a second address in 
Fred Johnson's record. This is in spite of there being an exact first 
and last name match for John Smith even though full name "Smitty" did 
not match "John Smith" (as it also did not match "Fred Johnson") I 
presume this is due to the good match for area code, address, and zip 
code taking precedence. (There was not yet an address and zip code in 
Smitty's bitpim record to match on.)

I don't know what the fix to BitPim would be other than to give a 
higher score to matching first and last name when there is a poor full 
name match. My work-around was to temporarily edit the full name field 
to be an exact match, do the import, and replace it with my preferred 
familiar name.

Vic



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