NOT SOLVED - Unable to sync with Ovi at all.

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Update Edit : after the sync completed, Ovi came back with 'No Contacts Updated'.....Restart Nokia Ovi Suite.  Error code 83860036.  For a minute there, I thought it was sorted, but no.
After a right runaround, with advice from Nokia support to uninstall, reinstall, do the same again, then uninstall and use the nokia cleanup utility, then re-install....etc ....etc.
None of that worked.
But I did download and run ccleaner because of another problem on my pc, and used the registry clean up utility (backing up the registry first).  it found about 1400 errors.
Now, when I connect my phone to the pc with usb, Ovi magically starts up and syncs automatically ;-))
So maybe after all it's not a Nokia problem, at least in my case, it looks like it was a registry problem.
I in know way recommend messing with your registry - all I can say is that it seemed to work in my case.
What I did:
Downloaded Ccleaner
Installed, clicked on the registry tool
Backed up registry (it prompts you to do this when you start to clean)
Cleaned every registry problem (it does it in one go if you want)
Restarted my pc.
Opened about 35 of the most common programs I use for work to check they still worked okay.
I didn't even think about Ovi at the time, it was only a day or two later when I thought I'd better try to sync the phone and pc again.
If I open Ovi first, then connect my phone, Ovi still does not work for me when I try to manually sync from the toolbar. Outlook was open at the time.
But before I reinstalled *again* I just connected the phone with Ovi and Outlook shut down, and voila.
Hope this helps someone out there.
D

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Update Edit : after the sync completed, Ovi came back with 'No Contacts Updated'.....Restart Nokia Ovi Suite.  Error code 83860036.  For a minute there, I thought it was sorted, but no.
After a right runaround, with advice from Nokia support to uninstall, reinstall, do the same again, then uninstall and use the nokia cleanup utility, then re-install....etc ....etc.
None of that worked.
But I did download and run ccleaner because of another problem on my pc, and used the registry clean up utility (backing up the registry first).  it found about 1400 errors.
Now, when I connect my phone to the pc with usb, Ovi magically starts up and syncs automatically ;-))
So maybe after all it's not a Nokia problem, at least in my case, it looks like it was a registry problem.
I in know way recommend messing with your registry - all I can say is that it seemed to work in my case.
What I did:
Downloaded Ccleaner
Installed, clicked on the registry tool
Backed up registry (it prompts you to do this when you start to clean)
Cleaned every registry problem (it does it in one go if you want)
Restarted my pc.
Opened about 35 of the most common programs I use for work to check they still worked okay.
I didn't even think about Ovi at the time, it was only a day or two later when I thought I'd better try to sync the phone and pc again.
If I open Ovi first, then connect my phone, Ovi still does not work for me when I try to manually sync from the toolbar. Outlook was open at the time.
But before I reinstalled *again* I just connected the phone with Ovi and Outlook shut down, and voila.
Hope this helps someone out there.
D