This might help: * Sync your contacts with Spanning Sync. Now all the potentially missing details and contacts from Google are on your Mac, including duplicates and naming errors (but that's OK). * Turn Spanning Sync syncing off (or set the schedule to Manual). * Run Contacts Cleaner from Spanning Tools for Mac and let it merge/ fix all the problems that it finds. Now you have on your Mac a "clean" set of data which includes all the details from Google and Address Book. * From the Advanced tab of the Spanning Sync pref pane, select "Replace Data on Google" and replace the contacts on Google with the contacts on your Mac. Now both sides are clean and should be identical.
-- Larry Hendricks [email protected] http://spanningsync.com On May 29, 1:47 pm, mooky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
