Android contacts WTF moment!!! :eek:

That may be the way forwards, migrate everything to GMail, tidy it up, and then not need to bother with Outlook again. I've already set up an Exchange link between Outlook and GMail using Activesync, so all my Outlook contacts WERE also in GMail, but the magic of automation means that when the fecal matter hit the rotating blades on Android, all the damage was transferred to Outlook and from there to GMail.

I'm fairly sure it wasn't any syncing session that did it though: my prime suspect is Android's "linked contacts" thing. Even though I kept rejecting its linking suggestions, it still seems to have done it anyway!

One other possibility is my Outlook-Gmail sync. I imagine if any change were to happen on the phone, and then I synced it with both Gmail and Outlook, then Outlook would sync to Gmail as well, and that might set up a chain reaction of everything updating over and over again in a circle, which might explain why I have up to 4 copies of some contacts. Is that possible?

Does anyone know of a way I can switch the damned Linked Cotnacts thing off so that when I next sync with both Outlook and Gmail the same thing won't happen again?
 
Still haven't found out how to switch Linked Contacts off, so I've been wandering around with a phone completely empty of contacts. Anyone know how to do it?
 
Allright, there's DEFINITELY something wrong with HTC Sync! I sat and repaired my Outlook contacts list, wiped the data on the phone (DIDN'T sync with GMail) and synced it up with HTC Sync again (setting "use PC data" for conflict resolution).

- It created at least 5 duplicate contacts that I spotted, where there was definitely only one copy of each of them on the PC

- It arbitrarily renamed a few contacts (eg. "American Embassy London" in Outlook became "American London" on the phone)

- Edits in Outlook are NOT mirrored on the phone after the initial sync (tried inserting a middle initial to the names of a couple of contacts, but HTC Sync didn't echo the change)

- Deletions in Outlook are NOT mirrored on the phone (again, I tried experimentally deleting a contact after the initial sync and it just wasn't echoed)

- It again managed to screw up a couple of contacts in Outlook during the 3rd or 4th sync (deleted one person's name and stuck a completely irrelevant person's email address in the nameless entry!) - this must be "linked contacts" bull faeces again!

The fact that this is still happening when I DIDN'T sync with any other accounts except my Outlook contacts is outrageous! I'm not entirely sure if this is Android's or HTC Sync's doing, but I WANT IT TO STOP!

If anyone can help me please do! Any advice/suggestion welcomed! It is a complete dealbreaker for me that I can't sync my contacts!
 
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