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If you edit two different phone numbers on a single person’s card—like a cellphone
number on the PC, and a fax number on the iPhone—that doesn’t count as a
conflict. Both machines will inherit both phone numbers.
iTunes considers it a conflict, and asks you to settle it, only when two changes were
made to the same phone number.
You’re offered two buttons:
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Review Later. This button actually means, “the computer’s version wins
for now. I’ll ask you again the next time you sync.”
Review Now. You’re shown the two changes, side-by-side, in a window.
Click the one you think seems more authoritative; that’s the one that will
wind up prevailing on both machines. Then click Done.
Of course, the computer has to sync one more time to apply the change
you’ve indicated. On the Mac, you’re offered buttons that say Sync Now or
Sync Later; in Windows, the buttons say Sync Now or Cancel (meaning “not
now”). In both cases, you should click Sync Now to avoid confusion.
One-Way Emergency Sync
In general, the iPhone’s ability to handle bidirectional syncs is a blessing. It
means that whenever you modify the information on one of your beloved
machines, you won’t have to duplicate that effort on the other one. It also
makes possible that multi-computer address-book merging trick described in
the previous pages.
It can also get hairy. Depending on what merging, fussing, and button-clicking
you do, it’s possible to make a mess of your iPhone’s address book or calendar.
You could fill it with duplicate entries, or the wrong entries, or entries
from a computer that you didn’t intend to merge in there.
Fortunately, as a last resort, iTunes offers a forced one-way sync option, which
makes your computer’s version of things the official one. Everything on the
iPhone will get replaced by the computer’s version, just this once. At least
you’ll know exactly where all that information came from.
To do an emergency one-way sync, set the iPhone into its cradle. Click its icon
in iTunes. On the Info tab, scroll all the way to the bottom, until you see the
Advanced area. There it is: “Replace the information on this iPhone,” complete
with checkboxes for the four things that iTunes can completely replace on
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