contacts sync

[cris-coffin]

with chrome extension and website i am constantly having to sync my contacts in order for the names to show up.

[koush]

What version of Chrome?

The sync should only be necessary whenever you start conversing wtih a contact which has not been seen yet (it caches the sync results for your current conversations)

[cris-coffin]

chrome v 13.0.782.112 and it is not just new messages it seems to happen every other time that i close chrome.

[koush]

I am doing a lot more/better caching now. Please check out https://desksms.appspot.com and let me know if the issue is fixed.

[jh0lt]

Just to add to this, the Facebook contact sync doesn't always sync the correct picture. (People having their middle name on Facebook seems to be the problem). So an option to remove the sync'd picture would be handy.

[koush]

So it syncs the wrong picture at times? Or it doesn't sync anything?

[jh0lt]

It syncs the wrong picture at times.

That's only when the Facebook name and contact name doesn't perfectly match.

For example:

I have a contact name of "John Smith" who has a facebook name of "John Martin Smith". It has sync'd the facebook picture of "John Wood", I don't know how you've set up the matching but that's what's happening for me.

Any more details let me know.

[koush]

Gotcha, I'll see if I can fix this.