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iPhone Contact Synch Troubleshooting

Jim — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:38:44 +0000

I recently undertook a (failed) journey into synching my Gmail contacts with my Address Book. The end result was much annoyance, followed by a day (ok probably 20 minutes) of cleanup to get my list back to normal. FINE. The cleanup got done – I re-synched with my iPhone and viola: contacts restored to normal… or were they?

10 minutes later I received a text from someone not in my contacts list. Upon further inspection, it was a good friend of mine (who I frequently trade messages with) — what the heck? His number isn’t in my address book?

A quick check of my laptop revealed that he was still there but wasn’t properly being synched to my phone. It wasn’t just him – 25ish contacts were mysteriously not showing up properly. Editing individual entries and resynching got the job done but finding these 25 people was really getting annoying – I needed a truer solution.

The winner:
iSynch -> Preferences -> Reset Sync History

That, plus one more “synch” through iTunes – and I was back on track. Hope that helps if you’re in that same boat!

Klingons need not apply

Jim — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:26:17 +0000

I ran Monolingual on my machine the other day – it basically clears off languages that you are never going to use to save space.

If you’re like me you’re thinking: For a small amount of space… I might as well just keep Spanish around.

The thing is… we’re not talking about a small amount of space (I gained 2+ GB). and we’re not talking about Spanish. We’re talking about… Kannada… and yes, that’s right: Klingon.

Note: Make sure to surf around for some recommendations before you run this puppy. It’d be a shame of you removed all your English stuff and had to re-install the OS. Thanks, The Mgmt.

Flood 1.0

Jim — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:40:03 +0000

Too bad that it’s come to this but having this mashup available is *really* nice.

Now if only I could have my 45 min drive to Milwaukee tomorrow instead of a map that shows me how to get there in 2 hours…

Shell games

Jim — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:13:58 +0000

Rob Sanheim’s productivity talk got me thinking about a shortcut that I’ve been meaning to create but never seem to get around to.

For quite a while I’ve had a line like this in my login script:

alias svnupall=”svn up /code/project1; svn up /code/project2; svn up /code/project3″

Normally it’s not that much of a pain to open that puppy back up and edit when I add/remove yet another project or branch that it should manage, but the cumulative effect finally got to me so I wrote a little shell script to just do it automagically:

all_np=”"
cd /SourceControl/nextpoint_source

for i in *
do
alias “cd${i}”=”cd /SourceControl/nextpoint_source/${i}”
all_np=”${all_np}svn up /SourceControl/nextpoint_source/${i};”
done

alias svnupnp=”${all_np}”

I decided the easiest way to come up with “which of these directories is actually a work project” was to add the “nextpoint_source” level… which made “cd /SourceControl/nextpoint_source/foo” annoying, so I dropped in that “cdfoo” alias. Of course, there are a hundred other little things that could be added there but we’ll see if I actually end up wanting them.

I’m sure there’s a better and more succinct way (what is it?) but this is already going to be much nicer.

Update: I forgot to mention that I don’t cd back out after what you see above, so I start out in my nextpoint_source dir (where I want to start 95% of the time).