Hi Nick, That's correct. If you perform a "Replace Data on Google" for contacts, you will have to setup your GTalk contacts again because these will also be wiped out during the process.
-Byron --- Byron Shaheen [email protected] http://spanningsync.com On Jun 1, 8:51 pm, mooky <[email protected]> wrote: > > * 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. > > Will that not run the risk of removing gtalk contacts? In my first > attempt, I lost a few googletalk contacts, I presumed due to me trying > to clean up duplicates on my mac - and that deleting the wrong contact > on google... > > -Nick > > On Jun 1, 5:22 am, Larry Hendricks <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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. 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