tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post8742901105110015404..comments2022-12-05T00:57:31.158-06:00Comments on ScrappyDog: Deleting 4,000 Gmail groups... (or: Repairing Soocial replication damage)Eric Bowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16365330785571984254noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-89959555528546211392013-11-19T12:03:35.402-06:002013-11-19T12:03:35.402-06:00I haven't tested this code in a couple years.....I haven't tested this code in a couple years... it's very possible that Google has made some breaking change in the Contacts APIAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12214494033421947840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-3191166131511944392013-11-19T11:23:44.276-06:002013-11-19T11:23:44.276-06:00I too have this issue but it says Execution of req...I too have this issue but it says Execution of request failed.<br />I have a GoogleApps for business account so I am not gmail.com so maybe that is the problem? Any help would be great I probably have a thousand or more!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01810570995069371306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-52150471638451080642013-10-03T14:52:56.404-05:002013-10-03T14:52:56.404-05:00Cathy- Did it give you any errors? Does the insta...Cathy- Did it give you any errors? Does the install fail? Or does the app appear to run, but nothing happens?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12214494033421947840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-64496923930042122862013-10-03T14:39:10.426-05:002013-10-03T14:39:10.426-05:00It didn't work for me. :( I tried installing i...It didn't work for me. :( I tried installing it a couple of times without any luck.Cathy Kylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15001159825526934646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-35502435392086281372013-05-09T04:07:49.104-05:002013-05-09T04:07:49.104-05:00Hello, Eric. Your tool is a savior to all of us w...Hello, Eric. Your tool is a savior to all of us with the messy address books and groups in Gmail! Thank you!<br /><br />Is there any way to make your utility work with GoogleApps accounts? I tried and it did not work.<br /><br />Thanks in advanceAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697301104752456648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-45959805908157330622013-04-04T13:41:18.415-05:002013-04-04T13:41:18.415-05:00Thank you.Thank you.psdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01586846087165111057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-90003121035239734052013-03-27T03:54:28.309-05:002013-03-27T03:54:28.309-05:00Sir, you are a very good person and will be blesse...Sir, you are a very good person and will be blessed for many lives to come for making, and sharing this script.<br /><br />Worked like a charm after Thunderbird or Google Voice (not sure which) put 1000's of duplicate groups in my contacts.<br /><br />Thank you!!!!MMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08952302579504063224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-91132160615971349002012-05-12T10:23:28.686-05:002012-05-12T10:23:28.686-05:00Thanks! What a time saver.Thanks! What a time saver.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13238422536983966086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-69201531151056620702012-05-12T10:22:34.216-05:002012-05-12T10:22:34.216-05:00Thanks! What a time saver.Thanks! What a time saver.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13238422536983966086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-49749647523941092702012-04-12T09:17:28.317-05:002012-04-12T09:17:28.317-05:00Thank you! Successfully deleted aprox. 750 groups ...Thank you! Successfully deleted aprox. 750 groups in a few minutes.Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12122223158931901394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-29348316034296091272012-03-30T12:42:37.308-05:002012-03-30T12:42:37.308-05:00Worked great!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you...Worked great!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-27183031134455649052012-03-05T14:40:15.079-06:002012-03-05T14:40:15.079-06:00Thank you ever so much!! I had hundreds of duplica...Thank you ever so much!! I had hundreds of duplicate groups from importing contacts from my palm desktop, this worked great! thanks!Cady Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18262723801427994297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-71147324959590809852012-01-30T19:01:40.556-06:002012-01-30T19:01:40.556-06:00could you do another one for contacts? That would...could you do another one for contacts? That would be epic :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-20396676460320219272011-11-24T01:53:46.256-06:002011-11-24T01:53:46.256-06:00I was really stressing about how I would get all o...I was really stressing about how I would get all of these groups off of my phone since it was snyched with my gmail account. Thanks to you, 2442 Family Groups have been removed in just a couple of minutes. :) Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-64204192182825250132011-05-23T08:56:40.738-05:002011-05-23T08:56:40.738-05:00Thanking you.
worked a charmThanking you. <br /><br />worked a charmDoolshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06163209673069327381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-63453263318515805192011-04-13T03:04:25.198-05:002011-04-13T03:04:25.198-05:00I'm Y.C.Chen from Taiwan.
Thank you for your s...I'm Y.C.Chen from Taiwan.<br />Thank you for your software.<br />It does a great help for me.<br />thank you.新竹工程師https://www.blogger.com/profile/18254682659963531437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-18896983776621778932011-03-07T06:05:17.755-06:002011-03-07T06:05:17.755-06:00Hi there,
I found this here post due to my gmail ...Hi there,<br /><br />I found this here post due to my gmail contacts being bugged by multiple blank groups that closely resembles the issue reported here. Except I don't use any other sync features than android 2.1 on my phone and Tbird on a couple of pc's.<br /><br />Still, each group appeared duplicated many times as of today. Like 247 groups instead of ~20.<br /><br />Your app was the cure. It proved to be a real time saver, showed to be clean and harmless, to say the least. I want to thank you for this and post here in case someone one googles for the issue, as I did.<br /><br />As for losing <b>valid groups</b>, I have found that exporting contacts will save groups in a field. Do so before running the app to quickly restore group information after cleanup. Failing to will indeed have you recreate your groups manually, which is bad... I guess.<br /><br />After running the app, only default groups should remain, which is expected behavior.<br /><br />Import csv file. This should merge the contacts and apply groups assignment. It did for me, flawlessly. Just in case something gets messed up, I created a temp group for imported entries. That was useless and I'll just delete that group. Do the same, it won't hurt a bit and can save the day..<br /><br />In case Gmail will not merge the contacts, try and use the duplicated contacts feature. <br /><br />Side note, <b>might be important</b> or not: before trying the whole procedure, I launched "duplicates lookup" in gmail and, to my surprise, it would return thousands of entries. Gmail reported duplicates as merged.<br /><br />Relaunching duplicates detection again would still find hundreds of entries. Same message : duplicates merged. Again : dozens... And so on, until gmail returned "no duplicates found". Weird. Clicked maybe 8 times before getting a "zero duplicates return.<br /><br />Maybe having no duplicates helped with then flawless procedure I experienced. So make sure to check for duplicates as well, it might very well be a side and hidden effect of the same bug. Note that I exported before checking duplicates and the list was correct. Go figure...<br /><br />I hope that those hitting the same bug will report here if they find anything make the topic move forward.<br /><br />Thanks again, a lot, for sparing me like... hours of useless, unproductive work. This is the first time that gmail ever let me down and you the man who brilliantly fixed it.<br /><br />For those interested in a safer, more complete backup, Thunderbird and the right extensions will sync contact information, down to the picture. <br /><br />Rojer - Biarritz - France.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08189430245173824975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-16951064891724132972011-01-29T12:54:30.849-06:002011-01-29T12:54:30.849-06:00Oh sweet jesus, I thought I was doomed. I imported...Oh sweet jesus, I thought I was doomed. I imported my work CRM list of over 9,000 contacts, all of which had groups/categories - massive, massive time savings. Thanks a bizillion!!!lukeoverherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14596451903311397220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-28045008293024465722010-11-29T21:15:17.094-06:002010-11-29T21:15:17.094-06:00Thanks for the utility!!!!!!!!!
You saved me hours...Thanks for the utility!!!!!!!!!<br />You saved me hours of clicking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-91537151750352514162010-10-02T00:52:00.331-05:002010-10-02T00:52:00.331-05:00Thanks, man! A couple different sync routines got ...Thanks, man! A couple different sync routines got out of control and made a massive mess of my stuff. Appreciate it!Mike Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16779262530988832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-16844698623203380472010-09-13T09:40:51.449-05:002010-09-13T09:40:51.449-05:00Scrappy, thank you so much for making that availab...Scrappy, thank you so much for making that available! It worked perfectly!Jason Veenstrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16025989278041545331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-7872743984190175212010-07-24T17:20:00.649-05:002010-07-24T17:20:00.649-05:00Thank you so much for writing it, contributing it ...Thank you so much for writing it, contributing it and documenting it. Very standup of you.Wayne Willishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04583307453575160764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-81584422038172441962010-02-02T19:17:19.236-06:002010-02-02T19:17:19.236-06:00No problem Ben, here is a link to the code: http:/...No problem Ben, here is a link to the code: http://blog.scrappydog.com/2010/02/souce-code-for-deleting-googlegmail.htmlEric Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16365330785571984254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-5332130086810523462010-02-02T19:00:34.325-06:002010-02-02T19:00:34.325-06:00You saved another user... I created a bunch of goo...You saved another user... I created a bunch of google groups using a tool called CompanionLink which syncs ACT databases up to google accounts... I chose the wrong field and made a 125 bogus groups, your tool saved the day.. Any chance you'd open source it for some of us to learn from? Thanks!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07353681619847474473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594392348185533137.post-40078884974330083842010-01-22T13:25:51.006-06:002010-01-22T13:25:51.006-06:00Thank you SO much. Soocial created 11,000 groups i...Thank you SO much. Soocial created 11,000 groups in mine and rendered groups useless for me. It was so many that Gmail choked on the javascript to show them. <br /><br />Your app is great. Thank you.benguthriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01320146458717616743noreply@blogger.com