Google's App Sync breaks Windows search
Published: 18 Jun 2009 16:42 BST
Google is working on an update to its App Sync software, the latest version of which breaks Microsoft's Windows Desktop Search, along with several plug-ins found in Outlook.
A post by Google on its enterprise blog late on Tuesday details some of the broken plug-ins, which include Adobe's Acrobat PDF Maker toolbar, as well as Microsoft's Office Outlook Connector and Outlook Change Notifier. As a fix, Google is recommending that users with Google App Sync installed who need to use these tools and plug-ins simply uninstall the program until a fix is made.
While the plug-ins may not be important to some users, the crux of the problem is that Google's add-on disables Windows Desktop Search, as well as some other third-party search tools. It is not doing this maliciously, though; Google says it does this to keep them from endlessly attempting to index the sync files the special software creates. Getting those programs to stop doing that will take cooperation from the companies that make them, including Microsoft, which Google says it is working on.
Google introduced its App Sync software earlier this month as an optional tool to its Premier and Education Edition users. The software allows them to sync messages, calendar appointments and contacts between Outlook and Google's hosted office services.
Credit: Google's data sync tool breaks Windows search from CNET News
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