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Help HTC Hero Sync with gmail contacts

soleary

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Aug 16, 2010
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Hi

I have my phone contacts set to Auto-sync with my gmail contacts. My question is if I happened to lose my phone and someone erased all my contacts on the phone, would my gmail contacts be erased also beacuse of the Auto-sync? If so, is there a way to safeguard against this?

Thanks
soleary
 
I think that could happen yes.

You can export all your contacts in a .csv file, via the gmail interface, as a backup though :)

Thanks for your reply. I was thinking as much. As good as the functionality is, the backup kind of defeats the purpose of having the seamless integration. I have backed up my contacts but would prefer if gmail had a recylce bin (or similar) to avoid losing contacts altogether (in the case that 'mass' data could be erased). I may not remember to back up the data everytime I save a new number to the phone!!
 
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