Mailing Addresses

[daveozric]

Hi Josh,

I looked around and found nothing about this (at least I think).  

I have a new gmail account with no contacts.  I had all contacts in TB in Personal Address book.  The mailing address aren't syncing to gmail.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

[Josh Geenen]

Hello,

Which versions of gContactSync and Thunderbird are you using?

Josh

[daveozric]

Hi Josh,

I am using gContactSync 0.3.0b2 with TB 3.0.6.

Thanks

[daveozric]

It appears I am an idiot.  I didn't have the sync postal addresses checked. 

Sorry about that. 

[Josh Geenen]

It appears I am an idiot.  I didn't have the sync postal addresses checked.

Sorry about that. 

Don't worry about it, that preference is hidden pretty well since postal address synchronization isn't perfect in gContactSync 0.3.   I believe Google is still working on adding/supporting structured postal address information (street, city, state, zip code, country, etc.) so I can't always predict what will happen with postal addresses.

Please let me know if you notice any problems with postal addresses.

[daveozric]

Hi Josh,

I am having some issues with address too.  I have lost some address when syncing with more than one computer.  I also noticed it not syncing them with Google.  Even after a manual sync.  How is this comparing again?  I use a file sync on my home network, but that is file creation date driven.  I don't suppose that's possible here?  I also lost whole contacts.

TB 3.1.7
gcontact 0.3.0

Update: I updated all computers to the new version 0.3.2.  I set my main computer to send to Google only and Local changes have priority.  I manually synced and it still would not add the mailing address to Google.  I have postal address checked in prefs.  It shows nothing changed in the report that comes up.  The report comes up saying TB Ignored 0 (due to read only) and Google Ignored 0 (due to write only)

What does the reset syncs do in prefs?

I also changed the rest of the computers to not having local changes have priority. Mostly add them on main computer.

Thanks again,
Dave

[Josh Geenen]

Once you change the postal addresses preference you have to update your contacts from whatever source you wish to get the addresses from.  Try updating a single contact in the location (TB or Google) with the postal addresses then sync and see if the address is synchronized correctly.

If that works, then right-click the synchronized address book and click on one and only one of the following:

• Replace from server (if your postal address are in Google)
• Replace to server (if your postal addresses are in Thunderbird)

It shows nothing changed in the report that comes up.  The report comes up saying TB Ignored 0 (due to read only) and Google Ignored 0 (due to write only)

gContactSync doesn't consider resyncing contacts after you change the postal address preference by design (I don't know whether people have their addresses in Thunderbird or Google).  The read-only and write-only in that report can be ignored unless the number there is not zero.  If it isn't zero that means that one or more address books was set to read-only or write-only mode in the Accounts dialog.

gContactSync uses the last modified date of the contact from both Google and TB (with a few bug fixes for TB related to last modified dates) to determine which contacts have changed.  If both have changed it uses that priority preference you mentioned to pick one of the contacts to use.

What does the reset syncs do in prefs?

That button will "reset" all synchronized address books.  This means that gContactSync backs each synced address book up, then removes all contacts and mailing lists in those address books from Thunderbird.  The next time you sync gContactSync will pull all your contacts & groups from Google into Thunderbird.  This is like the Replace from server mentioned above, but for all synchronized address books.

Josh

[daveozric]

Thanks for your reply.  I am really confused now.  I added the addresses to Google that wouldn't sync and changed a couple others in TB then did a sync.  Still having it set on write only to Google it still removed the address from Google and changed back the other ones I changed in TB.  How can it be doing that with set to write only?

So I changed back the contacts in TB that it changed back and when I right clicked the address book and chose put to server it says "Finished updating the last modified date of all contacts.  Contacts will be updated remotely only after the next synchronization."  Not sure what that is.  Should I sync again?  I will try that.

Update: Tried the sync after it said it would update after next sync.  It still is pulling info from Google and not adding others to Google.  I changed an address from work to home and it added the work address back in.  It is definitely not write-onlying to Google.  I will try adding the stuff and removing the stuff on Google and TB and see if it doesn't change it.  I will also change it to sync both ways, but leave local priority.

[daveozric]

I added all info to both places so they were exactly the same.  I changed all address books in accounts to sync both ways with local changes having priority.  after a manual sync it didn't mess with TB but removed all the new info I added to Google.

Very weird.

[daveozric]

Just did another sync.  It's just doing weird stuff.  Changing or removing some stuff on some of them and leaving some alone.  It's just the ones I have been trying to sync mostly. 

Should I be considering a reset after updating Google?  The main weird thing is the sending to the server and still changing the local ones.  Sorry, I am not even sure what happened anymore.

I have backed up the contacts with mozbackup already.

Thanks for your patience.