[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Email Category Question

[Roger Zender]

So I guess my question would be, after going through several hundred  
email address in Address Book and deleting the "Email" category  
duplicates, should I continue with that and just do an sync -  
overwriting my Treo.

Or should I go back through my Address Book and JUST use the Email  
category for all email accounts?

Thanks,
Roger

On Oct 4, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Brian M. Criscuolo wrote:

> Roger,
>
> You've hit upon the part of dealing with email addresses in a non- 
> direct way (meaning that they don't map 1:1 with the type that is  
> in the sync truth) that is problematic, and tricky, and fragile. If  
> you have to restore your data, and Sync Services requires itself to  
> compare every record and its fields (a refresh sync - essentially  
> like it had never synchronized Address Book before, and other sync  
> clients like us), there will be some that don't match.
>
> Because what we send into the sync engine is different than what  
> Address Book has pushed into the engine, it sees them as two  
> different records (the type "work" is not equal to the type "other"  
> with an "E-mail" label) and so it does the right thing - adds both  
> to the parent contact record.
>
> b
>
> On Oct 4, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Roger Zender wrote:
>
>>
>> I've been trying to keep up on this email category thread, but I  
>> can't seem to find the answer to a question I have.
>>
>> My address book had just instantly disappeared and I had to  
>> restore it from an old backup (that didn't have a lot of recent  
>> changes that I've made).  After restoring it, I did a sync, hoping  
>> to have my phone (Treo 650) update everything in my restored  
>> address book.
>>
>> It essentially duplicated all the email addresses.  Every entry  
>> with a "work" and "home" email address was duplicated with an  
>> "Email" category.  I've been spending the last couple days going  
>> back through and removing the duplicates, but I've been getting  
>> rid of the "Email" category instead of "home" and "work."  I'm  
>> only about 1/2 way through over 700 contacts, and now I'm a bit  
>> scared.
>>
>> After trying to quickly digest some of these discussions, I'm  
>> worried that I may be using the wrong category.  Should I be  
>> putting all email addresses in the "Email" category instead - to  
>> get a clean sync??
>>
>> Thanks so much for any direction...
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
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