Google Contacts stopped syncing with Address Book
14/11/10 Filed in: Address Book
Hi Scotty,
I reviewed the data and found out the following issues:
1) there are numerous contacts that are part of one of my distibution lists that are not syncing
2) there are also some other misc contacts that do not sync (can not tell anything different about the data)
3) contact with just birthdays do not sync
4) Any contact added to my droid - has never gone back to my computer
Right now, I just deleted all my contacts from gmail and imported them from my i address. At least I'll have a more current list of my contacts.
There seems to be numerous things going on - very frustrating.
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from Google:
Not all contacts synced to Gmail contact list
“On Mac OS X 10.5, Contact Sync can't sync a contact with Gmail if another contact has the same email address. If an Address Book or iPhone contact contains an email address already present in a different Gmail contact, this contact will not be synced.”
So let’s determine if this is happening with your situation. Find one of the contacts you know is not moving to/from the cloud then do a search in apple’s Address Book to see if multiple contacts come up. Sounds like Google prefers that you use the built in sync support in Apple’s address book app as opposed to spanning sync or other 3rd party software. Another thing to try (although we may have tried it already -can’t remember) would be to delete all contacts from Google once again and disable spanning sync. Next reactivate google sync in address book and hope for the best.
Google’s contact sync support doc here.
Android contacts support doc here.
I reviewed the data and found out the following issues:
1) there are numerous contacts that are part of one of my distibution lists that are not syncing
2) there are also some other misc contacts that do not sync (can not tell anything different about the data)
3) contact with just birthdays do not sync
4) Any contact added to my droid - has never gone back to my computer
Right now, I just deleted all my contacts from gmail and imported them from my i address. At least I'll have a more current list of my contacts.
There seems to be numerous things going on - very frustrating.
___________
from Google:
Not all contacts synced to Gmail contact list
“On Mac OS X 10.5, Contact Sync can't sync a contact with Gmail if another contact has the same email address. If an Address Book or iPhone contact contains an email address already present in a different Gmail contact, this contact will not be synced.”
So let’s determine if this is happening with your situation. Find one of the contacts you know is not moving to/from the cloud then do a search in apple’s Address Book to see if multiple contacts come up. Sounds like Google prefers that you use the built in sync support in Apple’s address book app as opposed to spanning sync or other 3rd party software. Another thing to try (although we may have tried it already -can’t remember) would be to delete all contacts from Google once again and disable spanning sync. Next reactivate google sync in address book and hope for the best.
Google’s contact sync support doc here.
Android contacts support doc here.
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