Same thing here :( Because I rely on Spanning Sync to sync all my address-book contacts across iPhone and Mac, I would enjoy a solution from the Spanning Sync team :)
On Sep 16, 9:35 pm, Paul S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was the behaviour I was seeing as well: Address Book wasn't > showing the sqaures, but iPhone was. > > I ended up turning contact syncing off through Spanning Sync and using > the built in Address Book <-> Gmail contact syncing instead. Seems to > work fine for me. > > Thanks, > Paul. > > On Sep 16, 9:11 pm, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unfortunately, this did not clear up my problem. The squares are not > > showing in my address book, but they are showing up on my iPhone. Any > > thoughts? > > > Dave > > > On Sep 7, 11:32 am, cvkline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Following up to my own post, I was dismayed that no one had addressed > > > this here so decided to re-mail it to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > support address. Within a few hours I had a very good response from > > > Larry Hendricks, who pointed out that this is actually expected > > > behavior. > > > > When you first turn on contact syncing in SpanningSync, you get your > > > choice of the recommended "Address Book compatibility mode" or "Gmail > > > compatibility mode." There's a bit of a hint in that dialog box that > > > says that in Address Book compatibility mode, SpanningSync adds > > > "special formatting" to allow it to better map the Address Book's > > > separate First, Middle, and Last name fields into the single "name" > > > field in Gmail. It was this special formatting that was showing up in > > > Outlook and on my WM phone. > > > > Larry told me that the characters SpanningSync inserts are defined in > > > Unicode as invisible, so nothing SHOULD be displaying them. However, > > > either Oggsync is mistranslating them when copying them over to > > > Exchange, or Outlook and Windows Mobile are incorrectly displaying > > > these "defined as invisible" characters. > > > > In my case, since I'm not too worried about mangled or mismerged > > >contacts(I never addcontactsin Gmail, I manage it all in the Mac > > > Address Book) I just changed to the "Gmail compatibility mode", > > > selected "Replace all data onGoogle" in the Advanced section, and > > > pushed mycontactsout toGoogleagain. Naturally, now without the > > > special formatting, Oggsync pushed them out to Exchange without the > > > annoying extra characters in the display. > > > > I was careful to reset Oggsync's contact sync to do a one-way sync > > > from Gmail to Exchange, to avoid possible duplication of all my > > >contacts(one set without the extra characters, and one with)... > > > anyone following my footsteps here should think very carefully about > > > the sync process to be sure nothing annoying happens. > > > > In any event, I am happy again, and thanks again to Larry Hendricks > > > for the quick and informative answer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
