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em3 · 06/09/2009, 06:17 PM

I too was experienceing the same junk characters on info that was syncing and ending up on my PRE. I spoke with Byron at SpanningSync today and he provided a quick solution that avoids having to engage in the tedious manual deletion of the junk characters and best of all, results in a permanent fix. Here are the instructions:

You can resolve this by using
Spanning
Sync's Gmail compatibility mode when syncing contacts:

* Open Spanning Sync
* Select the Contacts tab
* Uncheck and then re-check the "Sync contacts" checkbox
* Choose "Preserve Gmail compatibility" and click "OK"
* Make some small change to one of your contacts in Address Book (to
force an update on the next sync)
* Sync

Everything worked after syncing my mac Address Book with google via the method above, I simply manually sync my contacts on the PRE, waited a bit, and then checked again and all of the junk characters were gone.

Good luck,
Lou

06/09/2009, 06:17 PM	#8 (permalink)
em3 Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 8 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I too was experienceing the same junk characters on info that was syncing and ending up on my PRE. I spoke with Byron at SpanningSync today and he provided a quick solution that avoids having to engage in the tedious manual deletion of the junk characters and best of all, results in a permanent fix. Here are the instructions: You can resolve this by using Spanning Sync's Gmail compatibility mode when syncing contacts: * Open Spanning Sync * Select the Contacts tab * Uncheck and then re-check the "Sync contacts" checkbox * Choose "Preserve Gmail compatibility" and click "OK" * Make some small change to one of your contacts in Address Book (to force an update on the next sync) * Sync Everything worked after syncing my mac Address Book with google via the method above, I simply manually sync my contacts on the PRE, waited a bit, and then checked again and all of the junk characters were gone. Good luck, Lou