What's the deal....syncing is sporadic at best.
Anyone know the trick yet?
You need to go into settings then applications and clear all data on browser, then sync and should work fine.
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roadratx said:
What's the deal....syncing is sporadic at best.
Anyone know the trick yet?
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Yup, I have the trick you're looking for. After some trial and error, I figured this out. Its essentially a method by which one can refresh the saved attributes (in this case bookmarks) across all Google/Chrome outlets:
1) On your desktop, open Chrome and sort out your bookmarks as you would like them.
2) Then, in Chrome, on the menu bar under "Chrome", go to "Synced...", and click "Stop syncing this account", and then click the pop up to "Stop syncing".
3) Right after that, in the same location, click "Set Up Sync..." (you'll be prompted to sign in to your Google account, so do it). Once you've signed in, you'll be prompted again; this time, check off the Bookmarks option as the item you'd like to sync (no need to check off anything else. Leave the other option for Google Account password ticked as it was.
4) Click "OK" and presto, your bookmarks will be refreshed across all Google/Chrome devices or browsers. At this point you can check your XOOM to verify that those bookmarks have updated.
Its too bad they don't have a slightly easier option for doing this, but its not bad and it works. And the best part is you don't have to do a thing on the XOOM to make this happen (i.e. no wiping of browser data like saved passwords, etc.) So every time you'd like to tweak your bookmarks, or change the order of them as they appear in your XOOM's bookmark list, I have found that this is the best method you should follow.
Enjoy!
kyoteqwik said:
You need to go into settings then applications and clear all data on browser, then sync and should work fine.
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The method I've detailed above is the best way I've found to truly get this to work; I've tried your method with extremely mixed results on many occasions.
EDIT - oh and by the way by your method you'll clear out any saved passwords for websites, etc, so if you want to keep any of those, this might not be a great idea. Just an FYI
joeski27 said:
The method I've detailed above is the best way I've found to truly get this to work
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ok, tried this and it synced my bookmarks bar and one of my & bookmark folders. Any suggestions for getting the other 5 folders to get synced?
Strange that its a partial sync. Its almost as if the sync process is time limited. Couple more milliseconds and it would be complete. Just speculating
By the way, I did get a full sync a couple of weeks ago. But a FC requred killing the cache and I accidentally killed the saved data too. PITA
roadratx said:
ok, tried this and it synced my bookmarks bar and one of my & bookmark folders. Any suggestions for getting the other 5 folders to get synced?
Strange that its a partial sync. Its almost as if the sync process is time limited. Couple more milliseconds and it would be complete. Just speculating
By the way, I did get a full sync a couple of weeks ago. But a FC requred killing the cache and I accidentally killed the saved data too. PITA
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Well the only thing I have now figured to do, with regard to utilizing the "Other Bookmarks" folders is to 1) populate your bookmarks bar with everything you'd like, and then 2)long press on the bookmark(s) you'd like to place in the "Other Bookmarks" folder, then click "Edit", and at that point you can select the location where you'd like this bookmark to appear. Once its there, if at any point you want to change the order of any of your bookmarks, you'd have to come back into Chrome on the desktop and take care of it there (followed by the syncing procedure I already outlined). Again, hopefully Google will come up with an easier method than this eventually
I had the same problem and got hold of the developer of chromemarks who informs me that its Google "throttling" the amount of bookmarks synched!
In Chrome, you can you goto the addess "about:sync" (no quotes) and you
should get some stats. Then you look for the "Unsynched count"
My original count on synch start was: 3,085
Mine shows today: Unsynced Count - 2,320
It is generally going down around 50 to 100 per day! So I will be waiting for some months before I get all my bookmarks synched!
Google Throttling - Read more
All the best,
Cheers,
Dave
deejaydave said:
I had the same problem and got hold of the developer of chromemarks who informs me that its Google "throttling" the amount of bookmarks synched!
In Chrome, you can you goto the addess "about:sync" (no quotes) and you
should get some stats. Then you look for the "Unsynched count"
My original count on synch start was: 3,085
Mine shows today: Unsynced Count - 2,320
It is generally going down around 50 to 100 per day! So I will be waiting for some months before I get all my bookmarks synched!
Google Throttling - Read more
All the best,
Cheers,
Dave
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You seriously have that many bookmarks? I think you'd be better off with a list of sites on the internet that AREN'T bookmarked, it'd be shorter!
deejaydave said:
I had the same problem and got hold of the developer of chromemarks who informs me that its Google "throttling" the amount of bookmarks synched!
In Chrome, you can you goto the addess "about:sync" (no quotes) and you
should get some stats. Then you look for the "Unsynched count"
My original count on synch start was: 3,085
Mine shows today: Unsynced Count - 2,320
It is generally going down around 50 to 100 per day! So I will be waiting for some months before I get all my bookmarks synched!
Google Throttling - Read more
All the best,
Cheers,
Dave
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Thanks for the tip. I had over 1000 unsync count and watched it sync to 0 in a matter of minutes.
Hmm.. I have 0 unscynced according to about:sync but I'm still missing folders on Xoom :/
bjarnia said:
Hmm.. I have 0 unscynced according to about:sync but I'm still missing folders on Xoom :/
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Actually seem to have fixed the issue. There were just a few root folders that were not being synced.. Renaming them on my desktop computer triggered a sync on my xoom.
so the problem is fixed now.
I deleted my chrome sync data from google dashboard and then added I back and xoom now has all my bookmarks and folders
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I tried to search the forum but without success...
In the native client, is there a way to have a multiple selection of mails? I tried everything that came up to my mind but found no way... it is a bit annoying deleting item per item
Also, is there a way to empty the trash with a simple tapping sequence or do I have to delete item by item?
Thanks!
deleted because I can't read...
morder79 said:
I tried to search the forum but without success...
In the native client, is there a way to have a multiple selection of mails? I tried everything that came up to my mind but found no way... it is a bit annoying deleting item per item
Also, is there a way to empty the trash with a simple tapping sequence or do I have to delete item by item?
Thanks!
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AFAIK there are boxes you can check next to each email for folder moves, deleting, etc.
Don't think there's a quicker way to delete the trash..
JaiaV said:
AFAIK there are boxes you can check next to each email for folder moves, deleting, etc.
Don't think there's a quicker way to delete the trash..
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It is very very annoying...
Let's hope in some update with 3.1
Thanks
As you may know Chrome is able to sync all his content with google servers...
ICS can do that kind of syncing too...
I'm getting "problems" with the syncing on the phone... why?
Is this happening to anybody else?
It is happening to me. I can not sync my bookmarks.
I've try deleting bookmarks on Google servers through Dashboard and then re-sync by signing in in the Chrome Option > Personal stuff
I sometimes manage to get some sync but even though I manage to sync all my folders (I can see them all in ICS browser bookmarks), a lot of them are empty.
So the sync kind of works, but somehow stops while performing it, and I don't know at which level: is it during the upload of Chrome bookmarks on the server? Is it between the server and Android?
Finally, when I sync Chrome bookmarks and hit refresh on Dashboard, I've seen different results. Sometimes only 2 bookmarks are synchronized, sometimes 58... i've counted, I have 303, excluding folders.
Please someone help, bookmark sync was the main feature I was expecting in ICS
Sync works great between Chrome and FF using Xmarks btw.
Nexus S i9023 4.0.3 stock
on chrome you can check the sync status by opening this address:
about:sync
I suspect that on the phone I'm not able to sync even a single bookmark as my whole chrome sync is encrypted using a custom passphrase and I cannot find a way to input that passphrase into ICS ...
I don't use a custom phrase. I've just tried with default settings.
1st try: 7 bookmarks uploaded to Google servers;
after deleted uploaded data, I've tried again:
2nd try: 199 bookmarks uploaded.
This erratic behavior is infuriating, I don't understand what's going on. We can't be the only two with this issue...
in setting->accounts & sync->[email protected]
did u checked sync browser?..
i dont have sync prob in ics browser
aLNG said:
in setting->accounts & sync->[email protected]
did u checked sync browser?..
i dont have sync prob in ics browser
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Yes, after like 10 minutes the sync reports the error and is tagged with a red icon
evcz said:
Yes, after like 10 minutes the sync reports the error and is tagged with a red icon
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Same here.
I followed your link: about:sync, and I noticed an "Actionable Error" on the top right corner (in full screen): "throttle"
i don't know the conditions which trigger this error, but could it be the reason the bookmarks cannot sync between desktop Chrome and ICS browser?
I've tried a clean sync:
1. Sign out from Personal stuff in Chrome Options
2. Delete Chrome data from Google Dashboard
3. Wait a few minutes and confirm in about:sync that there's nothing synchronized
4. Delete data and cache from ICS browser (in Manage Applications)
5. Sign in Personal stuff in Chrome Options
6. Choose what to sync: I chose only Bookmarks, Encrypt passwords, Use my G. Account PW > OK
It begins to sync. When monitoring about:sync, the error appears: THROTTLED
Can it be the source of our issue?
I use Chrome 16 (no beta, up to date)
EDIT:
I click on sync browser in ICS options, I got no error, but:
* ALL of my bookmarks folders are synchronized: this is good
* SOME of my folders are empty, SOME are full, 1 folder is half full
* It seems to sync in an order. In Chrome, my bookmarks folders are in the bookmark bar: 1, 2, 3, ... 10
* In ICS, the full folder are 10, 9, 8.., the empty are 1, 2, 3...
* One folder is half full, (let's say folder 6)
It seems I had no problem synchronizing folder 10 to 7, but during the sync of the 6th folder, it stopped.
Question: WHY?
at this point I disabled browser syncing and will wait a patch that will allows the user to set his encrypt passphrase
in my case (obviosly) no bookmarks are appearing and that's a good sign as I didn't provided android the key to decrypt the bookmarks
evcz said:
at this point I disabled browser syncing and will wait a patch that will allows the user to set his encrypt passphrase
in my case (obviosly) no bookmarks are appearing and that's a good sign as I didn't provided android the key to decrypt the bookmarks
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Have you tried delete the account option in Sync Parameters?
I'm not sure if I understood your question.
You mean deleting from within chrome on my pc?
On the PC it appear to be working correctly... and there's no way I'll ever upload my browser data/bookmarks/history using the default settings (no encryption)!!!
In the unfortunate case they are not able to fix the syncing while using encryption I'd rather switch to firefox and use firefox sync
Dont use encryption in Chrome sync for everything, set it for passwords only. Then the bookmarks will sync.
I see... well if that's the only way I'm sorry: I will not push to google my history or my favorites just because ICS is not able to sync encrypted content
I found that I can't change the option of encrypted data types in Chrome.
and the status is Encrypted with Password.
I'm using beta version of Chrome. And Nexus S with ICS OTA. Browser sync error.
Is there anything I can do to sync the bookmark?
evcz said:
I see... well if that's the only way I'm sorry: I will not push to google my history or my favorites just because ICS is not able to sync encrypted content
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Hey,
I finally got it working. I posted a thread on reddit and updated it as the issue was solved.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/nhe8p/issue_with_ics_browse_cant_sync_with_chrome/
In short, the problem seemed to come from the sync process, not from ICS browser. For some reason, it didn't sync properly. The sync "THROTTLED" and wouldn't complete. That's why I saw all folders but not all bookmarks. I reduced the number of bookmarks (I still have 100+) and the sync passed (SUCCESS shown in about:sync in a Chrome tab).
If I remember correctly, I chose to sync only bookmarks and passwords, with an encryption on passwords. But it may work with a full encryption.
Thanks, will check it out
Yup, it seems to be the encryption in google chrome. I couldn't sync my bookmarks with my Nexus S (ICS), so I deleted the sync and started it again, without encryption of the bookmarks, only passwords. Now bookmarks sync again.
Not the best solution, though...
evcz said:
on chrome you can check the sync status by opening this address:
about:sync
I suspect that on the phone I'm not able to sync even a single bookmark as my whole chrome sync is encrypted using a custom passphrase and I cannot find a way to input that passphrase into ICS ...
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HA! That seemed to be my issue, never thought about it. It's syncing, and still showing as syncing, but not giving me the error this time. Nothin in my Gnex browser -- yet. Will check back in a sec...
I have the same problem! hope someone find a solution!!
Maybee this helps.... for me it is working since i loged out and signed in again in chrome on my pc
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1181420
Any News on that? Same problem with i9000 and cm9...
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Hello. Are you a keen flasher? Do you have duplicate contacts after syncing? I am writing this because I had some trouble finding out how to do this. It's actually extremely simple but you just need to know where to go.
1. Log in to your gmail account (Easier on Computer)
2. Top left hand corner of this gmail main page click on "Gmail" (It's just under Google)
3. Select Contacts.
4. Navigate to Other Contacts or wherever your duplicates might be. I had over 1600 duplicates lol
5. Check which contacts you want to delete or select the check all box at the very top
6. At the top middle of the page click on "more" then "delete"
7. That's all
This might seem too easy? Sounds dumb? At the end of the day even if this helps just 1 person I am happy
here is an easy way
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Hello. Are you a keen flasher? Do you have duplicate contacts after syncing? I am writing this because I had some trouble finding out how to do this. It's actually extremely simple but you just need to know where to go.
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if your syncd with google, you can open the contacts within gmail and use the 'find duplicates & merge' button.
i had around 700 contacts which duplicated many a times to some 3000....
this saved me alot of effort... :victory:
Hit Thanks if i have helped you
much simpler way
Open Google contacts
Enter user pass
Look out fore MORE under that see for restore and restore our contacts back to original form without duplicates based on the time period....
Hope this helps all XDians
Keep flashing and enjoy
these fixes work everytime.
Everytime being the operative word.
Duplicates happen over and over again, and it seems to be the same ones that duplicate.
Annoying.
I think, in my case, it has something to do with the fact that I have OSX Address book involved as well.
But I know that is set up right.
Perhaps Google Contacts ins't quite up to the task.
Doesn't work for ME
uppon2 said:
Sorry Mods I need this to be moved
Hello. Are you a keen flasher? Do you have duplicate contacts after syncing? I am writing this because I had some trouble finding out how to do this. It's actually extremely simple but you just need to know where to go.
1. Log in to your gmail account (Easier on Computer)
2. Top left hand corner of this gmail main page click on "Gmail" (It's just under Google)
3. Select Contacts.
4. Navigate to Other Contacts or wherever your duplicates might be. I had over 1600 duplicates lol
5. Check which contacts you want to delete or select the check all box at the very top
6. At the top middle of the page click on "more" then "delete"
7. That's all
This might seem too easy? Sounds dumb? At the end of the day even if this helps just 1 person I am happy
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I have had this same issue for over 2 years and just threw my hands up to just deal with it! It's starting to annoy me again and I was hoping that there is a better solution than what I saw some 2 years ago! I can't even click on the "Contacts" symbol without getting an error message stating "Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists. Learn more"! Further more after THIS message I get "Oops… the system encountered a problem (#101) - Retrying in 3s…"! I'm at my wits end on this but don't want to delete my account! this also affects my Contact Synching on my other OS devices! Can someone out there help me?!
Thank you!
find and merge duplicate options
chaztastic said:
I have had this same issue for over 2 years and just threw my hands up to just deal with it! It's starting to annoy me again and I was hoping that there is a better solution than what I saw some 2 years ago! I can't even click on the "Contacts" symbol without getting an error message stating "Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists. Learn more"! Further more after THIS message I get "Oops… the system encountered a problem (#101) - Retrying in 3s…"! I'm at my wits end on this but don't want to delete my account! this also affects my Contact Synching on my other OS devices! Can someone out there help me?!
Thank you!
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for a year i had problem of dupicates and syn not deleting too many contacts,this post made me open contacts on pc,and voila i found the ' find and merge duplicates contacts"under the more option very handy it solved my problem hope it helps u,i think this feature is newly introduced.
Thanks you.
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running CleanROM 2.4 + Browser2RAM + stock browser. all great.
in terms of browsing, i like my devices discrete. i.e. there's stuff i only want to see on my desktop for work, and stuff i want on my tablet, phone. but now i have like 300+ bookmarks (organized into folders, thank goodness) on my tablet. thing is, i can't delete any of it!
1) at first it appears that i CAN delete bookmarks. but upon reboot, bookmarks are still there.
2) logged into Google Dashboard and deleted synced Chrome bookmarks and disabled this function. deleted some bookmarks, rebooted the tablet, bookmarks still there.
3) disabled com.android.providers.partnerbookmarks. deleted some bookmarks. rebooted. deleted bookmarks still there.
i understand that with Browser2RAM, upon reboot, everything goes back to the original state and ASUS becomes the home page. so why are my bookmarks still there? and better question: how can i delete them?
IDIOT, i am.
Clear Data on Browser
disable Google Bookmarks Sync (though i noticed this seemed to be enabled, regardless) or clear Google Chrome Sync in Dashboard.
done.
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IDIOT, i am.
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LOL
I do stuff like this all the time...
Hang in!
Playing a lot with my Nexus 6, I came to want to try Chrome out a bit, for a change from Firefox. And I stumbled on what I consider a very big problem.
All my browsers, I set up to clear history, cache, cookies, etc, as soon as I stop using them. Be it for pr0n, bank managing, or mere general hygiene, I just want the browser to start fresh every time I launch it (I only keep bookmarks and some selected passwords).
Now, with Chrome, there doesn't seem to be any real way to wipe all the crap when exiting the browser. So I started playing with deleting of history, recent tabs and cookie files in /data/data/com.android.chrome/app_chrome, triggered by recent app swipe out (process stop) detection in Tasker. And it worked, for some time.
Problem, after having swiped Chrome out, deleted history files, and checked the history and recent tabs indeed seemed wiped, when tapping on the clock history icon, on the lower right part of the empty home page, then tapped on display whole history (translated from my language; YMWV). But OCD striked out, and I went back to the empty home page, to repeat the same process again. And again...
Until I ended up with the history appearing back, out of seemingly nowhere. So I wiped everything in the app itself (clear browser data), which works OK everytime. And now disconnected the phone from data before wiping the history and co files. And then went back to the history icon routine: now, without data, the history doesn't appear back. Then, I activated data anew, went on the repeated history checking, and bang: history appears right back...
So, when one tampers when Chrome history and co files, it seems Chrome restores those from the Internet, most probably from Google. Even though I set web history to off in my Google settings... Also tried History Cleaner Pro for root app, and end up with the same exact behaviour from Chrome. For what is worth, I use latest everything, factory 5.0.1, rooted, up to date Nexus 6.
Seriously: what's that crap?!?! Do you observe the same behaviour? Do you know of a way to teach hygiene to Chrome? Not sure I'll be touching the thing again though, even with a barge-pole... There may be a way to clean Chrome (would it be manually, in the app itself, which works as far as displaying information from previous sessions), but this experience tends to make me believe Chrome will save the history and all kind of crap at Google's, even if it doesn't display it anymore in the browser, even when you ask Google not to manage your history. And I surely won't have that. Back to Firefox, I am.
noraef said:
Playing a lot with my Nexus 6, I came to want to try Chrome out a bit, for a change from Firefox. And I stumbled on what I consider a very big problem.
All my browsers, I set up to clear history, cache, cookies, etc, as soon as I stop using them. Be it for pr0n, bank managing, or mere general hygiene, I just want the browser to start fresh every time I launch it (I only keep bookmarks and some selected passwords).
Now, with Chrome, there doesn't seem to be any real way to wipe all the crap when exiting the browser. So I started playing with deleting of history, recent tabs and cookie files in /data/data/com.android.chrome/app_chrome, triggered by recent app swipe out (process stop) detection in Tasker. And it worked, for some time.
Problem, after having swiped Chrome out, deleted history files, and checked the history and recent tabs indeed seemed wiped, when tapping on the clock history icon, on the lower right part of the empty home page, then tapped on display whole history (translated from my language; YMWV). But OCD striked out, and I went back to the empty home page, to repeat the same process again. And again...
Until I ended up with the history appearing back, out of seemingly nowhere. So I wiped everything in the app itself (clear browser data), which works OK everytime. And now disconnected the phone from data before wiping the history and co files. And then went back to the history icon routine: now, without data, the history doesn't appear back. Then, I activated data anew, went on the repeated history checking, and bang: history appears right back...
So, when one tampers when Chrome history and co files, it seems Chrome restores those from the Internet, most probably from Google. Even though I set web history to off in my Google settings... Also tried History Cleaner Pro for root app, and end up with the same exact behaviour from Chrome. For what is worth, I use latest everything, factory 5.0.1, rooted, up to date Nexus 6.
Seriously: what's that crap?!?! Do you observe the same behaviour? Do you know of a way to teach hygiene to Chrome? Not sure I'll be touching the thing again though, even with a barge-pole... There may be a way to clean Chrome (would it be manually, in the app itself, which works as far as displaying information from previous sessions), but this experience tends to make me believe Chrome will save the history and all kind of crap at Google's, even if it doesn't display it anymore in the browser, even when you ask Google not to manage your history. And I surely won't have that. Back to Firefox, I am.
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stop using chrome lol.
only solution i can think of. **** i dont even use google search because they record that too. i use duckduckgo, they dont track
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i dont even use google search because they record that too
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Well, I don't care so much about them recording what I do as about them forcefully flinging that crap back at me... that's what annoyed me. Anyway, yeah, stopped using Chrome, and won't go back to it.
I am looking for specific date on History Brower. Dates before and after appear but there is a gap. Any ideas how to restore these missing dates.
Phurkus said:
stop using chrome lol.
only solution i can think of. **** i dont even use google search because they record that too. i use duckduckgo, they dont track
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Censorship is also a quite a problem. So many search results get axed because the copyright mafia deems its infringing on their multi-billion dollar project copyrights.
Ironically, even Bing fares better than google and bing belongs to mcrosoft.
agreed. I use bing as my default search engine in browsers. As for Chrome, if OP is still interested, and their isnt an browser sync option in settings>accounts>google, you can use an app like disable services to disable com.google.chromesync.... or something along those lines. you'd have to look thru and find it in GooglePlayServices
Are people still having this issue with not being able to clear google chrome browser history on android?
If so, I found a way to clear it. I will be making a video tutorial if interest with this issue is still in demand. If so please don't hesitate in responding.