Duplicate contacts after initial Gmail sync

I didn't here from you after your last mail? Is this good news?

"here" --> "hear"

I has been very nice weather in the NL

... maar toen kwam de regen. Pff, Nederlanders, altijd weer dat gepraat over het weer :-P

However, it now looks like I have 400+ extra contacts (from 1000 to 1400) in my address book.

Extra contacts? Do you mean people you don't know or duplicate contacts?

Duplicates again! It looks like people without an email address and only one phone number (that come from my mobile phone, of course).

The similarity-calculating algorithm now works like this (well.. more or less):
For two contacts: if the names correspond and one extra field too, then the similarity-score will be high enough to automatically merge those contacts*. We decided for this approach to prevent us from automatically merging all "John Smiths" and "Peter de Vries"-en, names for different people you're likely to know more than one of.

(*) but we'll only merge with the contact with the highest similarity-scores if a contact is mergeable with multiple contacts.

If the contact in Soocial contains a phone-number, Soocial should be merging it with the contact coming from your phone. I can only say that it works for me with all our test phones, could you test it too? (You can easily backup your contacts before trying.) If it's not working your phone is 'special' and I sure like to know about it.

Please keep me updated!

Hi Breggol,

Although we're not sure why there are autmagically created contacts - we are re-factoring large parts of the GMail sync. We are currently creating a new queue that will enable a much cleaner way of syncing. I'm not sure this will fix your problem but it WILL make it easier for us to find the problem.

Sorry your experiencing so much hassle. But that's what you get for quoting shaggy! ;-)