Charlie, I had the same problem when trying the Google sync to my iPhone and your hint solved it. The "Gmail compatibility" option does have a nasty side-effect though, addresses are no longer correctly synced to Google. In the gmail contact editor, it is already visible that the postal code shifts all of a sudden behind the city name, after syncing to the iPhone and editing an entry, the real damage is visible: the sync to Gmail has apparently concatenated "city" + 3 x spaces + "postal code" to create a new city name.
Any fix for this ? Thanks, Tompie On Feb 9, 11:36 pm, cwood <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't seen this yet, but I bet I know what it is: Google is > replacing the invisible Unicode characters we use to delimit fields > (when using the "Preserve Address Book data" mode) with X's. Bad > Google! > > To fix this, just turn switch Spanning Sync to Gmail compatibility > mode: > > * Open the Spanning Sync pref pane > * In the Contacts tab, uncheck and then re-check the "Sync contacts" > checkbox > * Choose "Preserve Gmail compatibility" > * Click OK > * Make some small change to any contact in Address Book to force a > "push" sync > * After the sync completes, the Unicode characters will no longer > exist in Google and subsequent syncs to your iPhone should remove them > from your contacts there > > Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any > problems. > > Thanks, > Charlie > > On Feb 9, 3:52 pm, Hun Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Anyone seeing 'X's in address book contact details (first name, last name, > > address fields, etc.) after synching their iPhones via Exchange Sync > > (available today now)? I didn't see it before on my iPhone but now am > > seeing it after synching my gmail account as exchange (so it can sync mail, > > contacts, calendar real-time). :( I don't want to clean up every contact > > manually (600+). > > > Hun Kim | GH Kim Photography |www.ghkim.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
