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Different people experience different behavior with this. Part of it is that you have multiple accounts all trying to connect at once. There is one improvement for this I have been contemplating been making which shuld help the mot for when switching connections

I'm unsure what your steps were that led up to this. Were you merging contacts? Manully entering in X-GV fields? Those actions bleed over into components of which I have no idea how the interactions work so its hard for me to gauge what I might or might not be doing wrong if it is even a bug on my side.

Settings are stored by the system. I thought I had filed a bug on this but I searched b.m.o on it and couldn't find it. Feel free to file a bug to them, hopefully they'll fix it.

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Well sometimes I enter a Google Voice number, then click on that, and then click on my Gmail account that shows up in a window, which turns the field into a Google Voice IM one.
Sometimes I go into a conversation and merge that with a contact and get a Google Voice IM field that way.
Regardless of the entry method the network error wipes all Google Voice IM fields.

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Hello epage :)

I think, I have found a solution for the described situation. If a contact has a Google Voice IM entry, then the window title properly shows the sender's name. Which is exactly what I want. It could be nice if an unlisted number could be populated through both GV IM and Cell phone entries automatically, instead of just filling in GV IM field.

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Yea that works but the problem is the Google Voice IM field deletes itself way too frequently and reverts to a Google Voice field; see my post above. Then you have to go through all of your contacts, lick on Google Voice, and click on your GV Account in order to populate the Google Voice IM number.

The alternative is ticking the "Use GV Numbers" which will automatically add a Google Voice IM and Google Voice Call field once you input a cell phone number. It's not instantaneous as you'll need Mail for Exchange to sync your Google Voice contacts with those of your phone and then wait for TOR to poll contacts. However the problem with this is that when you get a network error it will separate GV contacts from regular ones upon polling again, giving you a duplicate of every contact. Then you have to merge all of them, which can take a while... it's better than the first method, but still...

If this network error thing can be fixed then there wouldn't be any problems, but I don't think that is happening anytime soon.

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Not sure if this was covered or not yet but:

Every few days I have to re-merge my google voice contacts. Is there a reason and a fix for why they keep separating?

Thanks.

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If I understand the coupleo f posts right before yours correctly, somehow the network error causes them to unmerge.

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Is there any chance that you would support growl (or howl) notifications to force TOR to check for new text messages?

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So from my little bit of research growl supports sending notifications across the network? And you'd want a refresh based on one of these?

Besides that I don't run MacOS X on any computer (nor do I want to) so I can't even test it, it feels a bit hacky and special purpose.

A refresh can be forced through the command prompt. Something I should do is create a script that will send the appropriate message to the command prompt on behalf of the user. This could then hopefully be connected to other types of events or a button or whatever.

EDIT: if this sounds like what you want, file an enhancement request or I'll never remember to do it.

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GVMax (can send different notifications for google voice) can send growl (or howl notifications). I would like to use these to for the TOR plugin to check for new messages.

I have been using gvmax to send instant messages to my jabber account, but the integration isn't very good, and I have missed several text messages (when switching from wifi to data, and other times).

A command line tool might also work, if I can figure out how to receive growl or howl notifications.

I'm not sure if these types of notifications would be of use to other people. but gvmax would enable push sms messages via TOR if growl/howl support was added.

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Haha. Thanks for pointing that out. I read them but i guess i just didnt "get" them.