Address Book and Google Contacts...?

What's the story with syncing Address Book with Google Contacts?
I set it up once, but since then it has not been able to syncronise changes made to either AB or GC (nb. even after clicking the sync button).
Is there a trick to maintaining syncronisation???

Now I'm no longer using the address book application, so answering this question would be pointless.

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I am trying to sync my Address Book and my Google Contacts with each other. I followed the guide on Google to import contacts using the application "A to G" but that doesn't include photos, which are a big part of why I wanted to do it.
I have in the past synced my address book with my facebook so that has a photo for each of my friends (their profile pics at the time) and since I have deleted my facebook account for privacy reasons.
I just tried to export a single contact in either 2.1 or 3.0 format, and neither imported correctly.
On looking it up online, I see one version had an option to sync with Google dynamically, but I don't see it in the preferences area - there is an option for Exchange, Yahoo, MobileMe but no Google - also I don't know if that will work with my Google Apps so cleanly.

Now I'm no longer using the address book application, so answering this question would be pointless.

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I've been trying to set up Address Book/iSync to sync my contacts between Google Contacts and Address Book. I have the Google account information configured correctly in Address Book Preferences -> Synchronize with Google Account but when I go over to iSync and hit "Sync Now" as the instructions tell me to, nothing seems to happen. That is, the sync icon spins for a couple of seconds and then stops, but no changes have been made to either set of contacts.
Have I missed a setting somewhere? I used to have a palm device configured, but I deleted it because I got an iPhone - could something be screwball because of that?
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Huh. Apparently I have to have my iPhone connected, then it will sync everything including the Google contacts. Funny that it wouldn't sync without it.
So I guess the moral of the story is to make sure that everything is connected and if you have an iPod/iPhone, initialize the sync through iTunes. Bizzare.
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No application crashed for me but the sync stopped working and I got the same error message when I added an "Instant Messaging" attribute of type "Skype" to one of my Google contacts. It synced again when I removed it. See my more detailed description on <http://www.google.se/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goog le.com%2Fsupport%2Fforum%2Fp%2FGoogle%2BMobile%2Fthread%3Ftid%3D6309a13bb1296605 %26hl%3Den&ei=6PnzSds6092yBoO1icQP&usg=AFQjCNHuBorlaKyV-3xPaAyQc-sggRHB9A&sig2=d aNy61q-XUHiI-PN_Zmc7Q> 2009-04-26.

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Hi,
recently I am syncing the Mac Address Book and my iPhone with Google Contacts.
If I add a birthday to one of my contacts on my iPhone, the birthday also will be added on Google Contacts. If I sync my Mac Address Book with Google Contacts now, the birthday doesn't show up on my Mac Address Book.
So my birthday calendar in iCal always is empty...
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Regards and thanks,
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Hi,
Google uses Google Sync to synchronize your contacts with your iOS and OS X. But this, from Jan 30, 2013, is only available to the paid versions of Google Apps (read more on http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2716936).
You can continue to sync on both iOS and OS X using the CardDAV protocol, which, IMHO, is even better.
Follow the instructions in this post: http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2753077?hl=en
Mountain Lion Contacts also supports CardDAV accounts. All you need to do is add the CardDAV account with your account credentials and it will synchronize again.
Hope this helps.
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How to sync Address Book with google contacts (google apps)

Hi everybody
With Leopard and Snow Leopard I could sync my Address Book with Google Contacts (in google apps). Now with Lion I can't find a way to sync those contacts. I have an iCloud acount for my personal contacst but our company uses Google Apps for sharing the contacts, and I would like to know how can fix that.
Thank you!

Hi,
Google uses Google Sync to synchronize your contacts with your iOS and OS X. But this, from Jan 30, 2013, is only available to the paid versions of Google Apps (read more on http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2716936).
You can continue to sync on both iOS and OS X using the CardDAV protocol, which, IMHO, is even better.
Follow the instructions in this post: http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2753077?hl=en
Mountain Lion Contacts also supports CardDAV accounts. All you need to do is add the CardDAV account with your account credentials and it will synchronize again.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Ramses

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I currently use Google Sync to keep Google Contacts and Google Calendar synched to my iPhone and it works perfectly. I want to also sync Google Contacts to my Apple Address book, and while I know where to configure this, I have a question before I turn it on.
In Address Book preferences if I check the box to sync Address Book with Google contacts is this going to wipe out my Google Contacts? Or will there be an opportunity to select which way I want the sync to occur? I want my Address Book to be the target in all cases and my Google Contacts to be the default master. I do not use Apple Mail, iCal, or Address Book on my Mac...I use Google Apps for everything, but I would like to keep my Mac Address Book as a carbon copy of my Google Contacts.
Thanks for any help before I start this sync.

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Nuts isn't it. This seems to have been an issue snce dAY 1. iT FROSTS ME THAT THERE IS NO SIMPLE QUICK WAY TO UPDATE OR CORRECT the data in both programs simultaneously.. Thats why i decided to just put everytning into the i cloud address brook, and let the one other sit and rot.
then i got smart and said, why don't I delete the outlookaddress book files. and save on confusion.
result - both addresses books and their contents became invisible to outlook.!!!!!! and I can find no way to correct this...to go back to the imperfect world that was.
I did get the outlook contact s back from an archive - but any thing from icloud has become inaccessible from outlook. (fortunately i can get the vcard infformation directly from icloud. but I can't access it from outlook mail.... means no replying, forwarding etc - and a time swallowing nuisance..
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Address book and google syncing

I would like to sync my google contacts with address book. I have gone into the preferences of address book and set it to "Synchronise with google" and entered my info. It will pull the email address', however that is all that it will pull. The names and other contact information does not come over. So basically in google contacts it says Joh Smith [email protected] When it syncs over to address book all that I see listed is [email protected] I can of course edit it and put in the user's name but then what is the point of synchronising? If anyone has any insight into this, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Kris

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So I guess the moral of the story is to make sure that everything is connected and if you have an iPod/iPhone, initialize the sync through iTunes. Bizzare.
Now to go through and the duplicates...

How to force Address Book syncing Google contacts immediately?

Hi everyone,
Last time I configured the Address Book as syncing the contacts with my Google account, but there was nothing changed in the Address Book. A couple of days later when I run Address Book again, the contacts in my Google accont was already transferred into the application. I mean I don't know when the synchronization would happen and I don't know how to force it happen immediately.
I did some changes in my Google account and wish the modification being synced to the Mac asap. I'm desperate to see it happens since the modification was three days ago and the content in Address Book just won't change. I also delete all contacts in my Address Book and re-configure the synchronization but no luck either.
Wating for the answer. Thanks in advance.

I believe you can force the sync from isync. put an isync icon in the menu bar and when you want to sync AB choose "sync now" from the isync menu.

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I would love to integrate my spreadsheet of addresses or my Address Book with Google Maps.
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I take a lot of trips across the country and don't always know when I will be driving by my friends. But if I had a map I could glance at to see where they all are, I would know that I could schedule a lunch with a friend halfway or something like that.
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Integrating in Numbers would not be automatic. You'd have to format links to assign to each address.
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I sync my iPhone with my Macbook Pro at home, which allows me to sync my Address Book with Google. However, since buying a Macbook Air and syncing everything via MobileMe, I no longer can sync with Google. I think I could solve this problem with syncing my iPhone with my Macbook Air, but I don't want to (all my media is on the Pro).
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• iChat no longer shows any of my friends (if I try to manually add them they simply show as "off-line" even when they're not).
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Never received help, so I gave up.

Sync between address book and google

I have been driving myself nuts all day with this. Here's the scenario:
a) I do not use mobile me.
b) I have my address book on the mac setup to sync with google contacts (10.6)
after it is initially setup:
1) if I add a new contact to my google contacts -- it shows up on my mac address book
2) if I add a new contact in my mac address book -- it NEVER shows up on google contacts
3) if I change a contact in my mac address book -- it NEVER shows up on google contacts
This is driving me nuts.
Any suggestions?

First, on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), only contacts in the My Contacts group in Gmail are synced. Second, groups are not synced to Gmail. Third, contact Sync can't sync a contact with Gmail if another contact has the same email address. If an Address Book or iPhone contact contains an email address already present in a different Gmail contact, this contact will not be synced.
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Syncing Google Gmail Contacts with Address Book and iPhone Contacts

Can anyone recommend a good way to sync Google Gmail Contacts with the Address Book on the Mac and with Contacts on the iPhone?
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Address Book and Google

Hey,
I have just set up address book syncing with google, and then set up google to sync my contact to my iPhone,
When i make a change to a contact on google it pushes this straight away (and the other way) which is perfect, but when I plug my iPhone in and hit sync the latest information on google doesn't seem to sync with my address book.
I have checked to see if every thing is set up right, and it seems to be but every isn't fully synced. Is there any way to get it to sync two ways.
I would really like every thing to be synced but i don't want to go over to mobile me as it costs so much and I can't get on me.com at work (stuck with IE 5 at work).
Any help would be good on this contact thing would be grate.
Jay

If you correctly setup Google Sync to your iPhone then you shouldn't need to plug in your phone. In fact, plugging in your phone wouldn't sync anything because you have it set up to wirelessly sync. So, I'd redo your iPhone sync setup:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740

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