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Junk Symbols in Google Contacts
Has anyone else gotten the little rectangular junk symbols in their google contacts? My gApps account and my wife's gmail account both have them.
Member:
rj5620
at: 08:10 PM 06/06/2009
yes, I am just manually deleting them, pain in the A#$ though.
Member:
Jeff DLB
at: 08:21 PM 06/06/2009
Are the symbols only at the end of fields, or anywhere? If at the end, I wonder whether those symbols are caused by the conflicting ways that Linux, Windows and MacOS mark the ends of lines (via carriage return and/or line feed characters). WebOS has a Linux kernel. The software should be smart enough to account for these differences, but I see this sort of thing when I email from certain people.
How did you populate your Gmail contacts--imported from MS Outlook?
Originally Posted by Jeff DLB:
Are the symbols only at the end of fields, or anywhere? If at the end, I wonder whether those symbols are caused by the conflicting ways that Linux, Windows and MacOS mare the ends of lines (via carriage return and/or line feed characters). WebOS has a Linux kernel. The software should be smart enough to account for these differences, but I see this sort of thing when I email from certain people.
How did you populate your Gmail contacts--imported from MS Outlook?
Good call...they sync from Mac address book to google contacts via Spanning Sync
Search on Google for "Preserve Gmail compatibility" -- Spanning Sync inserts those characters unless you have that option on. Happens on the iPhone too.
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Member:
Mikest
at: 09:35 PM 06/06/2009
I had the same problem but I cleaned them up manually on the phone. Not surprisingly I was using SpanningSync as well. Thanks for the heads up GreenOyster.
Member:
em3
at: 07:17 PM 06/09/2009
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
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