Hello,
I receive the following message every time I login.
[Google Contacts]Uploading item(s) to folder ‘[email protected]/Contacts’ failed due to the following error: Parameter validation failed for “resourceName” : The value did not match the regular expression ^people/[^/]+$
I must ignore it to download messages. But it also means to me that some of my contacts are not being synchronized with emclient.
Will anyone give me a solution to this issue?
Thanks,
Regards,
Narendra
Please go to the Contacts section of eM Client, then by right-click on the Gmail Contacts folder, choose Properties > Repair > Repair. This will resync the contacts with Google and the error should disappear.
Gary,
Many thanks! Your solution worked!
Thanks again.
Regards!
Narendra
I have tried this twice now but am still getting the same error. Nothing seems to be ‘rebuilding’ after I click repair.
Repair only appears on ‘all contacts’ and not the contacts with the exclaimation mark next to it.
Please advice, it is getting very annoying!
You need to repair the Contacts folder.
OK, this is a very old topic. My apologies
In version 10, repair the All Contacts folder.
Thanks, I’ve tried this twice, the contacts being rebuilt twice. the error message still occurs.
Are you sure you have the same error that is reported in this topic: failed due to the following error: Parameter validation failed for “resourceName” : The value did not match the regular expression ^people/[^/]+$
Or is it something different?
I have
[Google Contacts] Synchronizing folder 'XXXX.co.uk/Other Contacts' failed due to the following error: Parameter validation failed for “resourceName” : The value did not match the regular expression ^people/[^/]+$
OK, so it is the Other Contacts folder. It is a read-only folder so it might not work, but you can try repair that one.
No repair tab with that one. In fact, no contacts in that local folder.
Is there a way of identifying the guilty contacts? Maybe I can have spring clean of the problematic ones?
It’s not a local folder. Just right-click on Other Contacts and repair it.
Ah sorry, I see what you highlighted now. Nope, just repaired it. still the same error message. 
As asked previously, is there a way I can identify the problematic contacts?
I have a video that shows repair does not seem to do anything and does not resolve the issue, but can’t upload here
What’s the fix for this? I have ‘repaired’ it, but the issue still persists.
If the repair on the Google Other contacts doesn’t work “as sometimes it doesn’t”, then you have two options.
1). Go online to your Google Contacts via https://contacts.google.com . Then press the “menu on the left” & you can select Other contacts and then “add any of those contacts to your normal Google Contacts” so they don’t appear in their anymore, and / or “delete any Other contacts you don’t want online”. Then close and reopen eM Client which should then sync ok.
2). Alt go to “Menu / Accounts” in eM Client and remove your Gmail account.Then re-add your Gmail account using the automatic account wizard at the top which should then also normally fix the problem.
Note: If you do remove and readd your account make a manual backup first via “Menu / Backup” incase you have to restore for any reason. You can see when the backup is complete in Show Operations via clicking the drop-down on the right of Refresh top left.
Thanks @cyberzork Option 1 worked a treat - Kudos!
One of the most annoying and opaque emclient issues resolved at last!
