Gmail question re syncing email only

[madmonk]

I currently have 2 email gmail accounts on phone. account A is the main one, all contacts backed up to that. However , I would like to download all my email contacts from account B to phone, without backing up all the contacts on phone to account B if that makes sense. That is I want a sync one way only from account B.

if I sync in the normal way using account B I'll no doubt end up with twice the contacts I had before on my phone. ? or am I just being stupid. ?

Any ideas?

 

[rui-no-onna]

On my LG Thrive, syncing contacts from a Google Account just downloads contacts from that account and doesn't upload contacts from your phone.

Just a suggestion, why not export your account B contacts to CSV, create a dummy Google account C, then import the CSV you made from account B to account C? You can then try syncing contacts from account C to your phone. If that works properly and doesn't upload any of your phone contacts to account C, then you know it's safe to sync contacts with account B.

 

[chanchan05]

Go to Menu>Settings>Accounts and Sync. You will see both Gmail accounts there. Under the primary account, you should have everything syncing. For the second account, simply uncheck the everything except email.