Charlie, I selected google compat and my iPhone still shows the X's (as well as in Gmail Contacts there being extra 'spaces' after first/last name).
Any ideas? Hun Kim | GH Kim Photography | www.ghkim.com On Feb 9, 2009, at 02-09-09 05:10pm, cwood wrote: I'd appreciate it if you could send a very detailed description of the problem, with an example, to [email protected]. The exact address in question would help. Thanks, Charlie On Feb 9, 5:17 pm, Tompie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
