Makes perfect sense and I figured that was it. I was just thrown off a bit because it never used to do that and all of a sudden it did. I can live with it, no worries.
On Jan 12, 6:18 pm, "byron.shaheen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eden, > > If you're using "Address Book Compatibility Mode" this won't be a > problem for contacts that were created or edited in Apple's Address > Book. However, if you use "Gmail Compatibility Mode" this behavior is > expected, but is new. In the past, we've always mapped single names to > the first name field, but in order to be more compatible with Google's > own sync apps, we've changed it so single names wind up in the last > name field. I agree that this often isn't the desired result, but > we're trying to be as compatible as possible with other applications > and devices (like Outlook, the G1 phone, BlackBerry, etc) that Google > syncs to, so we've made the decision to follow their design. > > -Byron > > On Jan 11, 7:07 am, Eden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For all my friends and family members, I only refer to them by first > > name to help distinguish them against work related contacts. I have > > SpanningSync set to Gmail compatibility for Contacts and I noticed > > that my contacts that don't have a last name set in Gmail are being > > synced to my Apple Address Book with the first name entered in the > > last name field. Even after a sync and I try to reset the contacts in > > Address Book to put the (now) last name back into the first name field > > then re-sync, but it will redo it again and reverse the fields. > > > So my question is: is this behavior part of the Gmail compatibility? > > > If that's the case, I can live with it, because Gmail compatibility is > > more important to me as I don't use Apple Mail or Address Book aside > > from the extent of using SpanningSync to keep my phone in sync with > > Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
