Birdie Sync duplicates
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:06 pm
Hi there!
I've just found a bug in the Birdie Sync synchronization. For some reason I ignore, sometimes Windows stops recognizing my device as having already a partnership and asks me for a new one. Fine, it only happens once a month and I can deal with it. But BirdieSync duplicates some of the contacts (10% of my address book), and I end up with 100 contacts that I have to manually delete.
After screening some of them, I found that the duplicates are the contacts that have nicknames, and as these are on Thunderbird and not on the PDA, the nicked contacts on the PDA are considered new and are synced back to Thunderbird.
If anyone has a hint, I'd appreciate it, as it is really annoying (well, that I know what it is, I stopped deleting the duplicates...). If it could be one of the improvements in next versions, it'd be great.
Thanks,
Miguel
PS: I am running Windows Vista, Thunderbird 2.0.0.17, BirdieSync 1.6.10.1, and Windows Mobile 2003 (4.21.1088)
I've just found a bug in the Birdie Sync synchronization. For some reason I ignore, sometimes Windows stops recognizing my device as having already a partnership and asks me for a new one. Fine, it only happens once a month and I can deal with it. But BirdieSync duplicates some of the contacts (10% of my address book), and I end up with 100 contacts that I have to manually delete.
After screening some of them, I found that the duplicates are the contacts that have nicknames, and as these are on Thunderbird and not on the PDA, the nicked contacts on the PDA are considered new and are synced back to Thunderbird.
If anyone has a hint, I'd appreciate it, as it is really annoying (well, that I know what it is, I stopped deleting the duplicates...). If it could be one of the improvements in next versions, it'd be great.
Thanks,
Miguel
PS: I am running Windows Vista, Thunderbird 2.0.0.17, BirdieSync 1.6.10.1, and Windows Mobile 2003 (4.21.1088)