от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Ноя. 23, 2011 · permalink

Hello,

I do apologize for the duplicated contacts and groups. It's easy to undo recent changes if you go in Gmail and click on Contacts.

In the future I recommend you read the description of an add-on before using it, or at least before writing a review for it. That is a known "problem" that has been addressed in the development version available at the bottom of the page. I had the following text in bold in the add-on description well before you wrote this review, which should hopefully explain why you got those duplicates.
"When first setting up gContactSync 0.3 you should use a new address book. If you try to sync an address book with gContactSync that you already synchronized with a different add-on then you could get duplicates. 0.4 will merge contacts first."

Regards,

Josh

от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Окт. 1, 2011 · permalink

Could you let me know what didn't work (via the forum or e-mail)? I can't help you or fix any potential bugs without any details.

Josh

от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Окт. 1, 2011 · permalink

You need to start synchronization with a blank address book. If you start from something that was already synchronized with or imported from Google you can end up with duplicates. I used to detect duplicates and merge them but it was too slow and people complained. If you sync the same address book with the same Google account using two or more synchronization add-ons you will get a ton of duplicates. Removing either of those two add-ons will fix the problem, so no, it isn't a coincidence.

Josh

от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Окт. 1, 2011 · permalink

There is a long explanation of what "Resetting" an address book does and gContactSync warns you before you do it. If you don't read dialogs before clicking buttons at times you might get a surprise such as this one.

It DOES NOT ever delete all your contacts; it removes them all from either TB or Google depending on which type of reset you selected then after you restart Thunderbird it will pull the contacts from the opposition location. If gContactSync is going to permanently delete more than 5 contacts (the number is customizable) then it will ask your permission first.

You should start from an empty address book, not one that was already synchronized with or imported from Google. gContactSync used to detect and merge duplicates but it was slow and people complained so I removed that feature.

Josh

от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Авг. 26, 2011 · permalink

If you'd like to make a forum (http://pirules.org/forum/index.php) post I would be happy to answer any questions you may have in more detail. A review is supposed to be a review of the add-on from someone who has used it; not a question or personal statement ;)

Thunderbird doesn't allow having contacts without e-mail addresses in mailing lists. So in order to sync contacts in Google's groups with mailing lists, gContactSync has to add fake e-mail addresses to Thunderbird. These e-mail addresses are ugly, but they will never show up outside of Thunderbird (not on your phone, in Gmail, etc.). More detail in the FAQ: http://www.pirules.org/extensions/gcontactsync/faq.php#dummy_email

There is a read-only option for synchronizing contacts in the main "Accounts" window (under the gContactSync menu). Select the address book to synchronize, set up the account and group(s) to sync with it, then check "Show advanced settings" and pick "Read-only..." as the direction for synchronization.

от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Авг. 26, 2011 · permalink

If you'd be willing to make a forum post (http://pirules.org/forum/) I'd be happy to try and work through these issues with you. Those "empty" groups are present in Gmail as well if you look. Google requires that every account has "System Groups" (My Contacts, Coworkers, Family, Friends). These groups cannot be deleted. Also, by default gContactSync will sync all of your contacts. Those duplicates are probably just duplicates that you have in Gmail if you look under "Other Contacts" as well. I cannot comment on the "missing entries" without more detail.

от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Авг. 16, 2011 · permalink

These e-mail addresses are only stored locally in Thunderbird to work around mailing list bugs/assumptions in Thunderbird. They will never get propagated to your Google contacts.