Comments on: The Google Thunderbird address book: staying in sync

By: Tom Brown

Tom Brown — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:49:46 +0000

Anybody have any thoughts on my previous post of July 8th?

By: Tom Brown

Tom Brown — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:09:59 +0000

I maintain 2 gmail accounts: and .

Both accounts have many contacts, corresponding to Google Groups in gmail. When I first sync with zindus, the web contacts in my 2 gmail accounts match the zindus contacts in Thunderbird, building lists in Thunderbird with the zindus/ prefix.

But then, without syncing, sometimes my web-based contact group get emptied or only have one or two of what had been 20 or so contacts in them. When I try to then sync with my Personal Address Book using zyndus, the Thunderbird lists also get emptied, instead of populating the web contacts.

Even more frustrating, most of my sub-divided and categorized group contacts in my account get deleted from that contact list but show up in my “All contacts” list in the other account contact list on the web, and the same happens with my web contacts being transferred to my web contacts.

I think a one-way sync would solve this problem. When might that happen?

Also, how can i keep from losing all of my contacts when i sync with zindus? I’ve tried deleting all of the zindus/ prefix lists in Thunderbird and then rebuilding them by a slow sync with the web. this works but then it all gets screwed up again.

i have been accepting automatic zindus updates. Might this be part of the problem?

Inquiring minds want to know….

By: Zindus » Blog Archive » Synchronizing Google Contacts gets better with API v2

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:36:53 +0000

[...] allows the zindus addon to establish sync with Google immediately. The dialog that enforced Google’s no-duplicate rule remains only to fix empty contacts. Contact [...]

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:20:37 +0000

Hello,
I would like to suggest (as several people above) to support Zimbra contact group synchronisation. In my 60+ employees company we could really use this.

By: Allie

Allie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:45:25 +0000

Thanks Leni! Your new explanation [found here: http://www.zindus.com/faq-thunderbird-google/#toc-unauthorized-token-invalid fixed the problem like a charm.

Report those bugs people! They got mine taken care of same day Great Job!

By: Andrew Laden

Andrew Laden — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:15:05 +0000

Please add another +1 for the 1 way sync. I just completely screwed up my google address book when I realized that I didnt have zindus on one of my thunderbird installs, and when I installed it, it took a whole bunch of contacts and duplicated them. And since I sync google contacts to my iphone, it screwed up my iphone contacts as well.

I would love a default of google -> thunderbird, with the option of being able to pick a contact to sync up to gmail. Or a fully interactive sync mode where it asks what you want to do for each change.

By: leni

leni — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:16:59 +0000

@Allie - I wonder whether sometimes you login using your Google Apps email address and sometimes via yourname@gmail.com address. It’s possible for you to authenticate correctly using one email address but still not be able to modify contacts if the contacts are owned by the other. Try both … which should resolve the problem, but if not, feel free to file a bug report.

By: Allie

Allie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:57:48 +0000

I have used Thunderbird and Zindus together with my google contacts for over 2 years now and love them all. Zindus makes it work well with my personal desktop email system. However, when Thunderbird upgraded to 3 I started having problems with Zindus. I keep getting an error that says: “[JavaScript Application]: Sync Failed: Unauthorized.”

I am looking through the site but I’m not seeing anything that seems to sort this problem. Am I missing it or is there something I need to change? Up until the Thunderbird upgrade I had never had this problem, so I’m pretty sure it’s not sign in info issues causing this. And zindus has worked smoothly with my google accounts before as well. I am left assuming that it’s a thunderbird/zindus issue. Is that likely the case?

~ Allie

By: leni

leni — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:38:41 +0000

@Damon, +1 for one-way sync noted.

By: Damon

Damon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:54:20 +0000

I’m new to Zindus, just came back to Thunderbird 3 after 2 years of frustration with Evolution.

I just want to add my +1 for one-way sync. For me, everything syncs through my gmail account (to other computers, to my blackberry, etc.). My experience with new syncs hasn’t been great, so I’d love just to say “GMail–>Thunderbird” ONLY. Fewer headaches and worries!