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Old 15 Sep 2010, 03:45 PM   #7
Jeremy Howard
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Originally Posted by nighthawk700 View Post
If this part of the equation is ever removed, it'd be useful for me. Since I use an Android phone, I already have heavy use of a GMail account (for the contacts, calendar, etc., everything BUT the email service! ;-) ) It'd be nice to be able to sync between them without having to start from scratch.
OK, I think I have a solution for you. Please take backups first in case this doesn't work.

To Sync when you already have GMail and FM contacts:
  1. Download your FM addressbook (probably vCard / Mac OS X format would be best)
  2. Upload that file to GMail contacts
  3. Use GMail's "Duplicates" command to merge all your contacts together
  4. Delete all your FM contacts
  5. On the sync service screen, clear all sync state (if you've ever used it before)
  6. Sync!
It would be great if you could try this, and let us know how it turns out. It doesn't matter whether it's FM or GMail that's empty to start - it's just important to realise that on the first sync all contacts are copied in each direction, without attempting to merge duplicates.
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