Thanks. That helps me sort out my Mac contacts. The problem I still have is that I dont know what is going to happen when I try sync with google.
Google will have many of the same contacts I have on my mac. Some google contacts will have details that are no longer correct. Some might have details I dont have on my mac Google will also have quite a few duplicates (even though I have used its duplicate detection) Im uncertain how all these will be merged/sync'd with my mac. Last time I tried to run the spanning sync, I had all sorts of unexpected results - many dups and some gtalk contacts disappeared altogether... Id really like to be able to run the spanning sync without making any changes - and get a report of what it thinks its going to do. Then I can go an manually fix the contacts that are going to result in messy results after the sync. -Nick On May 24, 3:56 pm, Larry Hendricks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > "Messy" problems with contact syncing mostly occur due to Google's > inflexible naming conventions (contacts only have one name) combined > with contacts that have unpredictable names. Spanning Tools for Mac > can help with this. The free version will identify the problematic > contacts, the paid version will fix them. > > http://spanningtools.com/mac/ > > Hope that helps. > -- > Larry Hendricks > [email protected]http://spanningsync.com > > On May 23, 4:38 am, mooky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I have about 400 contacts in my address book - and about 800 in my > > google contacts (500 in MyContacts). > > > Last time I tried to run the sync for contacts (1 yr ago), I ended up > > making a bit of a mess - ended up with loads of duplicate contacts. > > > Are there some steps I can take to avoid duplicate contacts? > > Is there a way I can do a "dry run" - just get SpanningSync to > > generate me a report of what it plans to do? That way I could review > > all the actions & decide which things I dont want it to do - and > > manually fix the data so that it doesnt do it. > > > The difficulty is, that once a mess is made, undoing it is very > > difficult. For example if you resolve a duplicate in the Address book > > by deleting a redundant one - this can result in it being removed from > > my google contacts and from my gtalk contacts - which I really dont > > want. > > > Cheers, > > -Nick > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en. -- 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.
