Comments on: Merge Duplicate Gmail Contacts With a Single Button Press

By: Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:37:25 +0000

Awesome, this post really helps. Duplicates are really frustrating; this can cause other conflicts as well. On the side note using duplicate remover tool Scrubly Duplicate Remover is really effective. This automatically scan and delete those duplicates , merge compatible contacts and resolve other related conflicts.

By: Rocky

Rocky — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:49:31 +0000

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By: ashga

ashga — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:00:34 +0000

Kevin this is Great! Thanks for making us aware of this!

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:51:34 +0000

I’m in the same situation: Google Apps for work but Google Voice for personal use. Great tip! :)

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:34:32 +0000

Speaking of Google contacts. If you are a Google Apps user with your own domain name, as I am, and also use Google Voice, you know those are separate contact lists. Here’s a really simple, and automatic way to keep your contacts in sync.

I use Thunderbird 3 for my e-mail/calendar, but you can probably do the same thing with different tools. There is a Thunderbird add-on called Zindus which will sync your Google Contacts. Zindus supports multiple Google accounts, and processes those sequentially. So, make your Google Apps account the first one in Zindus, and your Google Voice account the second account in Zindus. Now whenever Thunderbird is running, which for me is almost always, I can make changes either in Thunderbird or Google Apps Web site and those get synced about hourly, and those changes are then automatically pushed to Google Voice.

I try not to make Contacts changes in Google Voice, but if I did for some reason, they still get synced properly, it just takes two sync cycles.

My phone (Palm Pre) syncs contacts to my Google Apps account so any changes made on the phone also end up in the Google Voice account pretty quickly.

Hope you find this useful.