Address book sync with Google broken?

I've been having a hard time getting the address book to sync cleanly with my Gmail account. I'm using a standard Gmail account (not Google Apps), which seems to be supported. I set this up by going into the address book preferences, checking the box for "Synchronize with Google" and putting in my username/password. It seems to accept the login information.
At first, I wasn't able to get it to sync at all, even when I manually clicked the sync button on the menu bar. Sometimes, when I would go back into preferences, the "Synchronize with Google" box would be unchecked. So I'd check it again, then a few minutes later it would be unchecked again.
Somebody suggested also setting it up to sync with a Yahoo! account, so I tried that and it worked. Once I configured it to sync with a Yahoo! account, it successfully sync'd to my Gmail account.
However, it still doesn't work a lot of the time. Sometimes it syncs, sometimes it doesn't. I don't get any error messages, it just doesn't do anything. And sometimes I still go back into preferences and find the box unchecked again.
I've also found a problem where after my initial sync with Gmail, it detected two conflicts, but I can't seem to resolve them. When I click "Review conflicts now" nothing happens. Then when I sync again, I'm told there are two conflicts. But I'm never shown what those conflicts are, and the "Review conflicts now" option never seems to work.
Gmail syncing works perfectly on my iPhone using Activesync, but it hardly works at all on OSX which is really strange and frustrating.

Try this fix http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2481501

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I updated my system software to 10.6.4 when the upgrade was released recently and have run into a strange glitch. My Address Book had been set up to sync with Google (in Preferences>Accounts) in previous versions of the software, and it worked without a hitch. After the system software upgrade, however, the sync no longer works. When I check the box next to 'Synchronize with Google', update an address, and then quit, the Address Book forgets the preference and unchecks the box. The result is that when I restart Address Book and go to the preferences, the Google sync box is unchecked.
I've searched around various help forums looking for a fix to this, but have yet to find any workaround.

+1
somebody else also started a discussion with the same problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2479196&tstart=195

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can anyone answer this?
at some point, I remember being able to do this. 10.5.x maybe? With 10.6 . . . .
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Would be great if Apple offered something like "support". So they do not know about the bug, don't do anything about the bug. If you have a problem with an Apple product, write about it in some forums and you feel better...
If Apple continues like that (my Mac mini crashes after 24 hours, can't run Apple's Aperture in 64 bit mode on Snow Leopard on three macs, Finder crashes, bugs, bugs, bugs, ...) I have to switch to Linux
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Hi,
Does anybody have a good solution to syncing the Address Book with contacts in Google. I don´t have an iPhone

If you google you'll find a workaround to do what you need.
Bye

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I am trying to sync my mac address book with my contacts in google/gmail and I have a strange issue. All my contacts written in english alphabet is syncing correctly, but when I have names in Korean characters, the last name and first name gets flipped. Without fail. All other fields seem to synch correctly, but the first name is mapped to the last name field, and vice versa. I have recently upgraded to OS X Lion on an iMac.
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Old Address Book syncing with iPad via iTunes!

Forgive me if I'm going over old ground but there seem to be a number of threads to do with Address Book syncing, but I haven't managed to find a definitive answer, so here goes ...
I have an iPad [3] under iOS.5.1and an OSX.6.8 quad-core i7 iMac and I sync them via iTunes.
Everything, absolutley everything, syncs just fine, Calendars, Photos, etc. etc. - except, that is, for Address Book and Contacts.
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Bizarre!
In an attempt to correct this, I unchecked the iTunes "Info > Sync Contacts button and resync'd.
The ipad Contacts book was empty - which is what I expected.
i then checked the button again and resync'd - and the old Address Book data was resync'd!
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So, my friends, why does iTunes not show the current Address Book indiviudal cards and Groups?
From where should it be getting it's information and how can I ensure that it does get the latest version?
If there is a rogue old copy somewhere, what could it be called and how can I find it and delete it and then, perhaps amend the default path to the correct version?
All software and apps on both devices are fully up to date at the time of posting this heartfelt crie de coure!
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Well, eventually I had to go to the Level 2 (or whetver they are called) AppleCare geeks to get this resolved, as the "normal" guys couldn't resolve it.
After much "try this ...", "try that ..." and "try the other ..." they narrowed the problem down to a corrupt Address Book Group header in my iMac's Address Book.
It appears impossible to find out just which of my 55 Group headers was corrupt and the only way around it was to export all Contacts individually as vCards, dlete every Group and individual card entry in the Addreess Book and reimport all the vCards - and then somewhat tediously recreate all my Groups again from scratch.
It took around two and a half hours on the phone to AppleCare and forever to recreate the Groups, but at least it solved the problem!
Whether this helps anyone else i cannot tell, but if you have a bizarre syncing pronblem it might be worth looking at this as a solution.
But take my tip: before embarking on this, make an entry in the Notes section of each card so that you know to which Group or Groups a card belongs because it was a feat of memory way beyond me to remeber all of them and I still have the odd orphan in there awaiting a home!

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I have enabeld Address book and iCal on the server, this works (after much headache). It works great for all devices except one of the Macs.
It has recently been updated to 10.7.3 and it refuses with no apperent reason to sync against the servers address book.
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There are other threads on this, but I'm angry enough to start my own.
Between my mac, .Mac, and my iPhone, I can't keep good contact data, almost ever. Invariably one of those devices will completely screw it up. Lately it has been syncing my iPhone: it will remove all contacts from all groups. The contacts will be present on the phone, the groups will be present, but they will be empty. The phone will infect my Address Book on my mac with this opinion, as well. Once this has happened, the Address Book will never sync to the iPhone again. It will claim to, but it doesn't really.
Another user found that deleting some files in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ (everything but the metadata folder) fixed things, which worked for me, but now everything's broken again, after I spent a good hour or so re-adding all of my contacts to all of my groups. I am very frustrated.
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I want to reiterate this problem, and see if there are any known solutions out there.
To update: I have a major problem syncing my iPhone to my computers. After a day, it think it's the authority on Contacts and Calendars, and wants to delete and replace everything on my computer. Doing this has undesirable consequences, like corrupting my Groups in my Address Book.
Here's what I have done: I have removed all computers from .Mac syncing. I added one back in, and forced .Mac to replace its data, using that computer. I then readded my other machines, and force-replaced all data on them using the .Mac data. I then synced my iPhone, and force-overwrote all info on the iPhone. At this point, everything should be a good agreement.
But no: today, the iPhone thinks that once again, it has all new data. It wants to delete 300 contacts and add 300 contacts on my computer. It wants to delete 800 calendar events and add 800 calendar events. It gets this way every day. I end up always force-writing to the iPhone, to keep it from messing up the data on my computer, and forcing a bad chain-reaction of syncs across machines. Does anyone else experience these same problems?
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Unfortunately, mende1 method didn't work for me too. I am still waiting for a solution...
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