On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 16:37, Troy Arnold <troy-...@zenux.net> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 05:39:17PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> So I've got a T-Mobile 3G MyTouch Slide (an HTC phone w/ Google & HTC >> Sense stuff preinstalled). >> >> It's almost perpetually telling me it's almost out of space (internal >> storage). If I tap that warning in the notifications, it launches "Manage >> applications", which allows me to sort by storage use. >> >> By far the largest is "Contacts," at over 60MB. I think this is because >> my overzealous acceptance of its offers to link up contacts between apps. >> (E.g., I can tie a phone contact to their Facebook contact info & photo) >> >> Unfortunately, I don't really know what I can do to reduce how much space >> this behemoth uses, without deleting contacts... >> >> Has anyone out here had a similar situation, and if so, any clues on how >> to reduce Contacts' storage use? > > Wow. That seems like an atrocious amount of storage for contacts. If your > contact app has the capability to import/export to .vcf, try that. I > wonder if such a cycle might clean up deleted but un-reclaimed space in the > contacts db. You could also explore the exported .vcf file and see if you > can determine where the bloat is. Is is dumb enough to store a multi-mB > photo for a contact maybe? > > As a point of reference, my ~90 item android (2.1) contact list exports to > < 1MB. > > > > -t
I agree. I export my 390 contacts from JPilot to a vcf file (246.1KB) and then import to my Nexus One, which yields 2.17MB in "Contact Storage". I suggest that you delete the contacts in your Android device and then carefully select which sources you would like to sync with - in "Accounts & sync settings". -rich _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
