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uvatbc	2011-01-02 , 19:46
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Originally Posted by altarMeego

Thanks, it worked like a charm!

Now that I've got the program up and running I have another issue, that I'm hoping you can solve.

I can't seem to get my contacts loaded. When I select Contacts from the main screen and then press ctrl+r it says its retrieving the contacts, but then it says total contacts is 0.

I did a grep for 'ontact' on the logfile plus a few lines before and after and came up with this:
Code:
2011-01-02 13:38:33.117 : 3 : Refresh all requested.
2011-01-02 13:38:33.118 : 3 : "Enqueued 8: getRegisteredPhones." 
2011-01-02 13:38:33.118 : 3 : "Starting work 8: getRegisteredPhones" 
2011-01-02 13:38:33.295 : 3 : "Retrieving Inbox..." 
2011-01-02 13:38:33.302 : 3 : "Enqueued 9: getHistory." 
2011-01-02 13:38:33.303 : 3 : "Work 8: getRegisteredPhones in progress. Wait for it to finish." 
2011-01-02 13:38:33.304 : 3 : "Retrieving contacts" 
2011-01-02 13:38:36.059 : 3 : "Contacts retrieved, parsing" 
2011-01-02 13:38:36.267 : 3 : "Contact parsing done. total = 0. usable = 0" 
2011-01-02 13:38:36.975 : 3 : ""Mobile"="+********""

On first ever login, qgvdial picks up all contacts from Google.
On subsequent contact syncs, it asks Google for only those contacts that were modified since the last sync.

This:

Code:

2011-01-02 13:38:36.267 : 3 : "Contact parsing done. total = 0. usable = 0"

indicates two things:
1. total = total number of modifications
2. usable = number of modifications which actually matter to us. Some modifications (and contacts) dont matter at all: for example, if a contact had only email addresses and no phones, there's no point in showing it in qgvdial. If that contact's email was modified and no phone numbers were added, then that contact is still quite useless to qgvdial. Thats where the usable count comes into play.

The total count = 0 means one of two things:
1. You have no Google contacts (rare, but not impossible)
2. You have Google contacts, but for whatever reason, the most recent contacts sync found no modifications since the last time.
In the case where no modifications were found, but still there is nothing in the contacts page, it may mean one of two things:
1. You have no contacts in Google (again: rare, but not impossible)
2. You have no contacts in Google for which you have assigned any phone numbers.

So: Before this latest update, were you able to see any contacts in qgvdial? If not, then it's probably because you have not added phone numbers to your Google contacts.
Remember, the contacts page in qgvdial are NOT your phone contacts. they are picked up from the contacts in your Google account.

Now if you *were* able to see contacts before this, then I'm a bit stumped. There used to be a "Refresh all" feature that would clear out contacts and reload them all, but it isnt there yet.
The only way I have to force a full refresh is to manually blow away the local sqlite database that caches information.
This is at /home/user/.gvdial.sqlite.db

Code:

cd /home/user
killall qgvdial
mv .gvdial.sqlite.db old.gvdial.sqlite.db

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