Address Book and Syncing

Okay, so I updated a lot of my contacts on my MacBook Air. Now I want the newly updated contacts on my iPhone, really don't want to add all those emails and fax numbers on my iPhone that is why I used my laptop. Now I go to sync it with itunes and it only keeps the 80 somthing contacts instead of the 160 some on my computer... Any suggestions?
Thanks,
adsherma

Can someone explain how to fool your Mac OS system that you have an iPhone. I would like the ability to sync my google contacts and addressbook.
Thanks, -- Peter

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Message Edited by marlowe on 11-19-2008 12:12 PM

I cannot say I AGREE! any louder.
This pocketmac people claim in the website to offer "solutions" but they have given me lots of headaches and I too would just go and buy an iphone. The only problem is that AT&T does not work in my house.
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Some previous user said that bluettoth could help but at any rate that was to over ride the address book with the 8330 data and in my case i was trying to do the opposite.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

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Address Book help says:
In Address Book, choose Address Book > Preferences, and then click General.
Select the “Synchronize with Google” checkbox.
I see no Checkbox, only .mac, exchange and Yahoo.
All my s/w is up to date 10.5.3, Adddress book 4.1.1
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Thanks, -- Peter

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In article <[email protected]>, Btippett wrote:
> One iPhone
> syncs email and calendar but does not receive any of the users address
> books (there are two that should sync).
I am assuming they are both selected in the GMS webadmin for this user,
if not check there first.
Is there any address book name conflicts? I.e. Same name in GW as is on
the device?
Next would be to use mcheck
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...ob2_guide_admi
n/data/admin_mgt_mcheck.html
if still having a problem,
Export the contents of one of the address books, import it to new
address book, and sync it.
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I have a HTC Desire phone and wish to sync my Contacts and Calendar items to it via Google.
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Hi All,
This may all sound funky, but here is where I find myself.
I have thousands of contacts that I send stuff to monthly. I use pages to create the material I send. All of these contacts live in Address Book. They are the only contacts in Address Book - specifically because I can only merge contacts that are in Address Book with Pages (which blows, but is a whole other issue).
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R

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