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Addressbook to Soocial to Gmail created all sorts of problems
Ive waited for everything to update several times to see if Soocial could fix it's own problems but it hasn't.
I imported a stack of vcards to my mac addressbook.
Soocial deleted all contacts from my addressbook.
Soocial then re-added the 126 contacts I had imported back into addressbook (but the contacts that were originally there were deleted and not replaced).
Soocial then deleted all contacts (except the filtered contacts) from Gmail and left it that way for a day (this freaked me out a little).
The next day Soocial added 56 contacts to Gmail.
Soocial duplicated every contact in it's own database.
So as it stands now, Gmail has 56 contacts (not including the 15 being filtered by soocial), Soocial has 243, and Addressbook has 126. I am missing a large chunk of contacts that were syncing correctly across all three apps, but are now gone.
What happened to the missing contacts?
Why are only part of my contacts being synced to Gmail?
Why do I have 2 of everything in Soocial?
Why is abbreviated such a long word? (sorry, I got carried away)
I have all of my contacts backed up outside of soocial, so if I have to delete everything and start from scratch I can, but I thought I would see if we can figure out a few of these bugs first.
Chris
I imported a stack of vcards to my mac addressbook.
Soocial deleted all contacts from my addressbook.
Soocial then re-added the 126 contacts I had imported back into addressbook (but the contacts that were originally there were deleted and not replaced).
Soocial then deleted all contacts (except the filtered contacts) from Gmail and left it that way for a day (this freaked me out a little).
The next day Soocial added 56 contacts to Gmail.
Soocial duplicated every contact in it's own database.
So as it stands now, Gmail has 56 contacts (not including the 15 being filtered by soocial), Soocial has 243, and Addressbook has 126. I am missing a large chunk of contacts that were syncing correctly across all three apps, but are now gone.
What happened to the missing contacts?
Why are only part of my contacts being synced to Gmail?
Why do I have 2 of everything in Soocial?
Why is abbreviated such a long word? (sorry, I got carried away)
I have all of my contacts backed up outside of soocial, so if I have to delete everything and start from scratch I can, but I thought I would see if we can figure out a few of these bugs first.
Chris
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Inappropriate?Hey Chris,
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Sorry for the mess. Thanks for the great feedback!
I will look into it and try to figure out what happened.
First of all I will attempt to run the deduper that will come available in the webapp soon. Duplicates is a problem that often rises on a not completed initial sync with a new connection.
I think you are aware of the exceptions of syncing to Gmail but I will mention them here:
We don't import contacts to Soocial that are just e-mails in Gmail
Gmail sees e-mail addresses as the main thing, so we can't push a contact to Gmail that has an e-mail that already exists in another Gmail contact.
You should end up with less contacts after that deduper. Let us know if you are still missing contacts
I’m unsure
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Inappropriate?Soocial added about 6 more contacts to Gmail (now 77 total including the 15 that Soocial ignores) So there are about 60 contacts missing from Gmail that I think should be there.
I am assuming you ran the deduper since I awoke to 122 contacts in Soocial (down from 243).
I had turned off syncing to my mac in the prefpane while I was experimenting before, and forgot to turn it back on. After turning it on I did a sync now, and Soocial went up to 244. I waited a little while, and then ran sync now again hoping to fix some of the dupes, and instead soocial just added all the contacts again so I currently have:
Gmail-77 (includes 15 not synced through soocial, so it is missing about 60)
Soocial-366 (3 copies of everything)
Mac-126 (pretty close to the number I should have)
I am missing quite a few contacts that were there before this all started. I don't know why they were deleted. If it helps I can give you the specific names etc.
Let me know what to do
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Inappropriate?Soocial must be doing something, I am now up to 97 contacts in Gmail (including the 15 that get filtered). So now Gmail is only missing about 40.
Chris
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Inappropriate?Hmmmm, crazy Soocial.
Gmail now has 122 contacts including some dupes and the filtered contacts so there are about 20 that aren't showing up yet. It looks like Soocial is adding about 20 contacts to Gmail every time it syncs (about every eight hours?).
Soocial now has 854. Looks like 7 copies of 122 contacts
My mac still has 126 (the correct number)
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Inappropriate?Hey Chris,
Wow things get really crazy with you......you are at about 1200 contacts now. I just sarted the depuper again. Should get rid of the duplicats but I am pretty sure that is not a long term solution. I'll have one of my collegues look at it. WIERD
I’m silly
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Inappropriate?So Soocial has been acting squirrelly all day.
My mac now has 3 copies of 123 contacts for 369 total
Soocial has 535 (4 copies of most plus some others)
Gmail has been bouncing around all day. It currently has 155 (including the 15 filtered contacts) but I think it was 200+ earlier today, I know it was at least to 180. I have a few contacts with about 7 copies in Gmail (obviously names and numbers only).
Like I said, I am not worried about anything getting screwed up as I have backups of it all so I figure I will just let Soocial play its crazy games until things get worked out.
Chris
I’m glad I'm not the one who has to debug this:-)
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Inappropriate?Any updates here?
Soocial is showing 763 contacts (including 66 duplicate copies of one person). Gmail has 349 and AddressBook 372.
I really only have about 125 (give or take a couple).
Like I said, I have all of this backed up so it will be no problem for me to restore once the bugs are worked out. So, I don't mind having it all messed up for a while if it will help with the debugging. Just let me know when you are done so I can fix things.
Also, I don't know if it is related or not, but AddressBook has now stopped syncing automatically. I am not sure how long ago this started (several days at least), but it now only syncs when I click on Sync Now.
Let me know whats up.
Chris
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