Hello,
One quick note - I recommend you manually backup your address books just in case, since 0.3 is an alpha release. 0.3.0 alpha 4 and above will automatically make backups for you. I've heard that
MozBackup works well if you use Windows.
1) When uploaded a new contact from thunderbird to google, the contact can only be found under "all contacts", not under "my contact". Is there a "workaround"?
If you look in the Accounts window (gContactSync -> Accounts in the Address Book window), what are you synchronizing that address book with? If you only want to use the "My Contacts" group then pick
My Contacts under
Groups and Contacts to Synchronize. Then click
Save Changes. The Address Book my need to be "reset" for the change to take effect. If so, you must close all Thunderbird windows and reopen them before trying to synchronize again.
2) When created a new contact in google and sync with , the adress is not converted and doesnt show up in thunderbird. If uploaded via thundbird everythins if fine, also when i uploaded the contact via MyPhoneExplorer to google it works fine. So i guess, there is a "glitch" in the convertion google -> thunderbird. I tried this one
The problem with addresses is that Google and Thunderbird store them differently. Google stores addresses in one large textbox that supports multiple lines (a "formatted address") while Thunderbird stores each component of an address (street address, region, country, etc.) separately (a "structured address"). Google says it will eventually parse formatted addresses into structured addresses, but until it does so gContactSync cannot synchronize addresses correctly. Writing code to parse postal addresses from around the world myself would be difficult and
0.2 added a formatted address field to Thunderbird to solve this problem. 0.3 at first (pre 0.3.0 alpha 3) partially synchronized addresses, but making any modification to that address from Google wiped out the structured addresses. That option is now in the Preferences dialog, but if you check it you must never add or edit an address from Google if you want to see it in Thunderbird.
3) Is there a way to implement "lists" but ignore the standard google list?
Are you referring to Groups (in Google), such as Family, Friends, etc.? If so, the only options in gContactSync are to synchronize all contacts + all groups, all contacts and no groups, or contacts from one specific group. You can setup multiple address books to synchronize with multiple groups (one group each) through the Accounts dialog (gContactSync -> Accounts).
Josh
