Peter, When you turn on contact syncing in Spanning Sync you have two options: "Address Book compatibility" and "Gmail compatibility". Address Book compatibility is recommended, and *should* prevent this problem. Do you remember which you selected? You can find out by turning contact syncing off and on again.
Thanks -- Larry Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spanningsync.com On Sep 23, 4:42 am, pvantees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi Larry, > > I have tried it again. Cleared all my contacts on Google. > Sync works great, but I think my problem lies in the way Google uses > my contacts information. > As you mentioned, names and addresses are "blobs" of text. > > On my Mac my Addressbook has dutch formatting. > > This means that an address is formatted like this: > [street] > [zipcode] [city] > [country] > > So Spanning Sync loses that formatting. > > After sync my contact address comes up like this: > [street] > [city zipcode] > where city and zipcode come together in 1 field > > That's not working for me; I am curious if it is just me or if the Mac > Addressbook settings influence the syncing through Spanning Sync. > I don't have the same problem when using the "native" Mac to Google > addressbook sync. > > Peter > > On Sep 18, 10:37 pm, Larry Hendricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm guessing the contacts with issues already existed on Google? The > > problem with Google's contact storage is that they don't differentiate > > first name/middle name/last name for names or street/city/state/ > > country/etc for postal addresses; it's just a blob of text. We can > > compensate for this when we send data to Google, but for the contacts > > that are already there,we have to make a best guess. > > > Your best bet here would be to clean up your Address Book in Mac OS X > > (there should be a backup in ~/Library/Application Support/ > > SpanningSync/) and then do a "replace data on Google" for contacts > > from the Advanced tab of the Spanning Sync pref pane. Then whenever > > possible add contacts on the Mac instead of on Google. > > > If that doesn't help, please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Thanks > > -- > > Larry Hendricks > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://spanningsync.com > > > On Sep 18, 3:29 am, pvantees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I upgraded to 2.0 yesterday. > > > > I disabled contact syncing in iTunes and then activated contact sync > > > in Spanning Sync preferences. > > > > This generates a lot of unwanted changes in my contacts. Work and home > > > addresses get duplicated with the contents in the wrong fields. I did > > > not have these issues with the iTunes sync option. > > > > Is there some way I can change the relationship in the addressbook > > > fields to actually matchup the information I want to sync? If not, > > > then that would be a feature request. > > > > Anyone having the same issues? > > > > BTW I am Dutch so I have setup my Addressbooktemplate to Dutch. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
