After receiving some bug reports from users regarding photo sync, the feature has been disabled in production release 0.8.37.

Photo sync will remain disabled until the issue is resolved.

Sorry folks.  This is bad news for everyone who really likes photo sync (who doesn’t!).  But the addon’s longstanding policy of prioritizing correctness over features really does work in everyone’s best interests.

Photo sync is still available in the testing release.

If you are visiting this page because you encountered an error in the addon and clicked on a link, you’ve stumbled across Google Contacts API bug 2649.

The bug relates to the use of Google photo sync. A workaround is in addon versions 0.8.35 or later. Upgrade the addon in the normal way (Tools/Addons/Find Updates) and sync should work fine.

Photo sync is finally here!

Upgrading to this release forces a slow-sync after which you’ll find that any contacts that have a photo in either Google or Thunderbird now have a matching photo on the other side!

Platforms that’s aren’t supported for photo sync - Zimbra, Postbox, SpiceBird, Thunderbird 2. Sorry folks - it’s a matter of limited resources.

Enjoy!

Update 2011-05-03: photo sync promoted from the testing release to production.

If you’re visiting this page because you clicked on a link in the addon, you’ve encountered a race condition in the Google Contacts API. The bug has been reported to Google: bug 2531.

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It has been almost two years since our last post on google postal address sync. Given that better postal address sync is still the #1 most requested feature for the Zindus addon, it is time for a status update. Read the rest of this entry »

For Zimbra users, here is a brief explanation for why sync of birthday field between Thunderbird 3 and Zimbra was added in 0.8.15 and why it will likely be removed in 0.8.16.
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If the addon reports an assertion failure on line:

chrome://zindus/content/syncfsm.js:8475

then you have encountered google bug 1915.
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A question: is anyone interested in Firefox contact sync?

As an experiment, the testing release of the addon now includes a built-in SQLite addressbook that syncs with Google and Zimbra.
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The addon now syncs Google Groups with Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Postbox and Spicebird addressbooks.  The feature is available in release 0.8.15 and later.
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Two users recently tweeted that the addon creates duplicates.

If the addon really created duplicates it’d be a serious bug.  Neither of these folk filed a bug report so it’s impossible to know for sure.

But while bugs are always possible, it’s far more likely that these reports reflect a misalignment between expectations and the reality of slow sync.

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