Re: BirdieSync not authorized to access contacts
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 8:47 pm
Your explanation of the group/mailing list lack of correspondence may end up being a problem preventing my friend from using BirdieSync (and thus Thunderbird): prior to my installing Thunderbird on his PC, he was using MS Outlook (or whatever it is called) and the Windows contacts not only synchronized with his iPhone, but their regrouping did too, and allowed him, on the PC, to do group mailing. I thought BirdieSync would match the iPhone groups to the Thunderbird mailing lists.
Also, what we noticed right now as I am typing: some (iPhone) contacts which were listed in a group aren't listed there anymore (i.e., this particular group has now less contacts than before), although these contacts are still in the contact list. Moreover, these and other contacts now appear listed twice in the contact list, sometimes identically, sometimes not. Also, in the iPhone, some fields (e.g., address) contain some of the info duplicated, e.g. city or zip code appear twice.
We also tried, according to what you wrote, the morecols extension, and wrote in the "Catégorie" field of two Thunderbird contacts the word "Bureau", and synch'ed. I thought from what you said that "Bureau" would now appear as a (new) group on the iPhone with these two contacts in it, but it didn't. What am I missing?
Also, what we noticed right now as I am typing: some (iPhone) contacts which were listed in a group aren't listed there anymore (i.e., this particular group has now less contacts than before), although these contacts are still in the contact list. Moreover, these and other contacts now appear listed twice in the contact list, sometimes identically, sometimes not. Also, in the iPhone, some fields (e.g., address) contain some of the info duplicated, e.g. city or zip code appear twice.
We also tried, according to what you wrote, the morecols extension, and wrote in the "Catégorie" field of two Thunderbird contacts the word "Bureau", and synch'ed. I thought from what you said that "Bureau" would now appear as a (new) group on the iPhone with these two contacts in it, but it didn't. What am I missing?