In my experience, device to outlook syncing works very well with respect to
fields staying intact on both sides. I've used many 3rd-party sync
solutions over the years, though, and usually there are a few weird quirks
with them- that bit about adding "United States" to contacts has a familiar
ring as something some 3rd-party products used to do, because third-party
sync solutions not-natively based on Outlook, have to reformat Outlook
Contacts to fit their own database requirements.
So, this might be a red herring, but I should ask just to clarify: how does
your client sync- via desktop syncing, Exchange, or does he use that
wireless OTA sync product that Verizon offers its smartphone customers? For
example, I synced my device (briefly!) with Google's new mobile sync
service, and it redid a lot of my custom "File As" fields to whatever
Google's default was- many of my Contacts have both a company name and an
individual's name, and I typically store them under Company name. After a
trip through Google sync, many came out Last Name, First Name instead of
company name. We've had other posters here in the past that had contacts
slightly modified or reformatted, (not seriously, thasnkfully) by Verizon's
sync service, that IIRC, is based on Nokia's old Intellisync product.
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Durf - 02 Jul 2009 16:02 GMT
That was actually the case with this user - verizon sync was used for a
couple days until we got a compatible certificate.
So any resolution? The sync software is no longer in use. I gather the
idea would be to do an import/export from outlook and clean the data, but
how? I mean I know how, but what exactly needs to be cleaned up, if you
happen to know?
Thanks1
--Durf
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