Address Book-changing sync method?
When I sync'd for the first time, I was asked how I wanted to do it, "merge, erase, etc." Now I need to change from one to another. How do I do that?
Actually, the app is not Address Book, it is Contacts. On the Mac, it is Address Book.
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My MacBook Pro will not sync address book changes with my IPhone. Why? It used to.
My MacBook Pro will not sync address book changes with my IPhone. Why? It used to.
Then you may have to try manually resetting the syncservices folder by following Julian Write's post (from https://discussions.apple.com/message/9274781#9274781):
Ok, as you can't reset SyncServices in the "normal" way, you'll have to resort to the "other" way:
Although it's not advised to do so in normal circumstances, you'll need to manually delete the SyncServices folder.
Before doing so, you MUST make a backup of both your Contacts and Calendars:
In Address Book, choose *Export > Address Book Archive...* from the File menu.
In iCal, choose *Back up iCal...* from the File menu.
Then, make a backup of the SyncServices folder located at:
~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices
By backing everything up first, you don't risk losing anything.
Finally delete the aforementioned SyncServices folder and restart the Mac. This will force Mac OS X to recreate the SyncServices folder, and hopefully fix your problem.
I believe in Snow Leopard you can back up your calendar in File>Export>iCal Archive rather than File>Back up iCal as posted above. -
Custom image from Address book not syncing to Exchange.
I am running Mac OS X v 10.7.5. I have added custom images to contacts in address book. I have an Exchange account which will sync the data (ie name, address, email) but not the custom image. Is there away to have custom images sync to Exchange/Outlook?
I'm Running Mac OS X Lion, and have seen that changes made in the mac address book do not sync to gmail contacts but changes to gmail contacts do sync to the mac address book.
Making a change to a contact on my phone does sync to gmail contacts, and then to the mac address book.
Another test I ran was to change the same contact in gmail and mac address book. I made a change to a mobile number and notes in one contact on my mac address book, attempted to sync, and the change does not appear in my gmail contacts. I tried multiple times, restarted my web browser, restarted mac address book, the sync would not work. I changed the same contact mobile number in gmail with a slightly different change to the notes field so I could see when an update occurred, and when I told mac address book to sync it recognized a conflict. When I select the mac address book change to resolve the conflict, the gmail contact is not updated. When I repeated the experiment and selected the gmail contact to resolve the conflict the change is made in the mac address book. -
Is it possible to sync my Gmail contacts with my Address Book? I do not have an iPhone or iPod Touch. Thank you!
Looking for a solution to this too!
I keep my iPhone contacts & Apple Address Book in sync through iTunes & recently thought of keeping my Gmail contacts in sync with the Apple Address Book as well. Researching online showed this is pretty much a dead end in terms of a simple sync for the user but since I use my iPhone & Apple Address Book to mainly control & edit my contacts, every now & then I just create a backup of 'vcards' with the date of that day & import them as a new group to Gmail. This new group will say something to the extent of 'Apple Address Book Jul-28-2010'.
I don't make changes to my Gmail contacts but constantly delete the old Apple Address Book 'group' & keep only the latest one. That way all changes are brought upon my Gmail contacts as well. Even though there might be duplicates, it's easy to sort out cause you know which ones came from your Apple Address Book.
Definitely not the most ideal solution but works for now... -
Address Book & Gmail sync problem - have no buttons
Hi.
I have SL 10.6.8 and want to establish sync between Address Book & GmailContacts. Many people wrote what AB have "Preferenses/Accounts/GoogleSync", but not mine. When I try to to this, I see empty place. look at screenshot.
This is a SL glich or what?
That is snapshotLooking for a solution to this too!
I keep my iPhone contacts & Apple Address Book in sync through iTunes & recently thought of keeping my Gmail contacts in sync with the Apple Address Book as well. Researching online showed this is pretty much a dead end in terms of a simple sync for the user but since I use my iPhone & Apple Address Book to mainly control & edit my contacts, every now & then I just create a backup of 'vcards' with the date of that day & import them as a new group to Gmail. This new group will say something to the extent of 'Apple Address Book Jul-28-2010'.
I don't make changes to my Gmail contacts but constantly delete the old Apple Address Book 'group' & keep only the latest one. That way all changes are brought upon my Gmail contacts as well. Even though there might be duplicates, it's easy to sort out cause you know which ones came from your Apple Address Book.
Definitely not the most ideal solution but works for now... -
Address Book Source Sync every 30 seconds when using computer
Hi,
I previously had the issue where my MBA 2013 1.7 i7, 8GB, 500GB was draining the battery in sleep mode. Figured out it was Avast and problem solved.
Now, however, I check on the power management logs from time to time when awake there is the following log:
06/02/2014 09:54:05 GMT Assertions PID 332(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000182 [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:54:35 GMT Assertions PID 333(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000183 [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:55:06 GMT Assertions PID 334(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000184 [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:55:36 GMT Assertions PID 335(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000187 [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:55:50 GMT Assertions PID 81(apsd) Released ApplePushServiceTask "com.apple.apsd-recreatecachedictionaries-push.apple.com" 00:00:30 id:0xc00000188 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:56:06 GMT Assertions PID 336(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000189 [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:56:36 GMT Assertions PID 337(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x10000018c [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:57:06 GMT Assertions PID 338(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x10000018d [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:57:36 GMT Assertions PID 339(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x10000018f [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:58:06 GMT Assertions PID 344(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000190 [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:58:36 GMT Assertions PID 345(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000193 [System: DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:59:06 GMT Assertions PID 346(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000194 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 09:59:36 GMT Assertions PID 347(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000196 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:00:06 GMT Assertions PID 348(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x100000199 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:00:36 GMT Assertions PID 349(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x10000019b [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:01:07 GMT Assertions PID 350(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a0 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:01:37 GMT Assertions PID 351(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a1 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:02:07 GMT Assertions PID 352(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a2 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:02:37 GMT Assertions PID 353(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a3 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:03:07 GMT Assertions PID 354(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a4 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:03:37 GMT Assertions PID 355(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a5 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:04:07 GMT Assertions PID 358(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a7 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:04:37 GMT Assertions PID 361(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a8 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:05:08 GMT Assertions PID 362(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001a9 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:05:38 GMT Assertions PID 363(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001aa [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:06:08 GMT Assertions PID 366(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001ab [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:06:38 GMT Assertions PID 367(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001ac [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:07:08 GMT Assertions PID 370(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001ad [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:07:38 GMT Assertions PID 371(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001ae [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:08:08 GMT Assertions PID 372(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001af [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
06/02/2014 10:08:38 GMT Assertions PID 373(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30 id:0x1000001b0 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
This doesnt seem normal at all. I have disabled the syncing of all contacts in iCloud prefs but it still persists. Surely if such a process reccurs every 30 seconds it has an effect?
Anyone got any ideas or have experience with this? Seems like Mavericks isn't so great at power saving afterall!Please test after taking each of the following steps.
Step 1
Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Trash.
Log out, log back in, and test. If there's no change, go to the next step.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
Step 2
If you use iCloud, uncheck the box marked Contacts in the iCloud preference pane. Press return to confirm, or click Keep on Mac in the dialog that opens.
Step 3
From the list of groups on the left side of the Contacts window, select All On My Mac. If that group doesn't exist or is empty, skip this step. Otherwise, from the menu bar, select
File ▹ Export ▹ Export vCard
Save the exported contacts to the Desktop.
Step 4
Quit Contacts. Reveal the following item in the Finder as you did in Step 1:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
Move the selected folder to the Desktop, leaving the window open for now.
Step 5
Launch Contacts. Your contacts will be gone. If you took Step 3, then double-click the file you created in that step and confirm that you want to import from it. Your contacts will reappear.
Step 6
If you took Step 2, reverse it. Test. If the issue is resolved, delete the AddressBook folder and the vCard file on the Desktop and close the open folder window.
Otherwise, quit Contacts again and put the AddressBook folder back where it was, overwriting the newer one that will have been created in its place. Post your results. -
Address book source sync keeps MBPr awake
I have been seeing this weird process keeping my MBPr awake for no apparent reason. and i know its awake because when i pull it out of my bad after whole night its very warm at the bottom and battery has drained like 40 percent overnight.
I have tried to pinpoint the reason and found that there is a process called "Address book source sync" that keeps my notebok awake. so i decided to get rid of iCloud, as i dont need it. it didnt work, so i formatted the whole HDD and reinstalled mavericks from scratch and never logged into iCloud. it was ok for couple of days and now again i am seeing this process keeping my notebook awake. i dont know what to do, please help me.
thank you.Please test after taking each of the following steps.
Step 1
Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Trash.
Log out, log back in, and test. If there's no change, go to the next step.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
Step 2
If you use iCloud, uncheck the box marked Contacts in the iCloud preference pane. Press return to confirm, or click Keep on Mac in the dialog that opens.
Step 3
From the list of groups on the left side of the Contacts window, select All On My Mac. If that group doesn't exist or is empty, skip this step. Otherwise, from the menu bar, select
File ▹ Export ▹ Export vCard
Save the exported contacts to the Desktop.
Step 4
Quit Contacts. Reveal the following item in the Finder as you did in Step 1:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
Move the selected folder to the Desktop, leaving the window open for now.
Step 5
Launch Contacts. Your contacts will be gone. If you took Step 3, then double-click the file you created in that step and confirm that you want to import from it. Your contacts will reappear.
Step 6
If you took Step 2, reverse it. Test. If the issue is resolved, delete the AddressBook folder and the vCard file on the Desktop and close the open folder window.
Otherwise, quit Contacts again and put the AddressBook folder back where it was, overwriting the newer one that will have been created in its place. Post your results. -
Address Book not syncing with Exchange 2007
My address book on Snow Leopard has 4093 cards, but not all of them are showing up in my contacts folder in Outlook Web Access. My company uses Exchange 2007. This is strange as I originally populated my address book by syncing it with my cards on Outlook. Does anyone know what the problem might be?
Waiting was the key solution here!
After waiting aprox 2/3 hours it worked. Changed nothing... -
Address Book not syncing to Gmail
I have Snow Leopard and have enabled the Sync to Gmail feature in Address Book. However, my Address Book changes are not syncing to Gmail Contacts.
I'm Running Mac OS X Lion, and have seen that changes made in the mac address book do not sync to gmail contacts but changes to gmail contacts do sync to the mac address book.
Making a change to a contact on my phone does sync to gmail contacts, and then to the mac address book.
Another test I ran was to change the same contact in gmail and mac address book. I made a change to a mobile number and notes in one contact on my mac address book, attempted to sync, and the change does not appear in my gmail contacts. I tried multiple times, restarted my web browser, restarted mac address book, the sync would not work. I changed the same contact mobile number in gmail with a slightly different change to the notes field so I could see when an update occurred, and when I told mac address book to sync it recognized a conflict. When I select the mac address book change to resolve the conflict, the gmail contact is not updated. When I repeated the experiment and selected the gmail contact to resolve the conflict the change is made in the mac address book. -
Address book not syncing with Exchange contacts
Address book not syncing with Exchange contacts
After update to Mountain Lion contacts/address book is not syncing from Exchange Account.
Calendar sync is OK.
What to do?
Some information:
MacBook Pro late 2011
OS: Mountain Lion (10.8)
Mail version: 6.0
Address book version: 7.0Waiting was the key solution here!
After waiting aprox 2/3 hours it worked. Changed nothing... -
"Smart Groups" in Address Book not syncing to the iPhone
"Smart Groups" in Address Book not syncing to the iPhone
Normal Groups sync but smart groups do not.
Anyone else have this issue or know of a fix?
Thanks.This same concept applies to syncing two macs via .Mac
The method I use for iPhone is this.
Define your smart group as needed.
Define a read group with a similar or convenient name.
From time to time drag your whole smart group to the real group.
The real group is the one that then syncs to your iPhone.
As a safety factor, I usually clear all entries from my real group before I drag over the updated smart group.
Anyway, this is simple and works well.
Hope that helps. -
Not all fields in Address Book are syncing
For some reason not all the fields in my address book get synced from one computer to another. The template for all the fields in address book are the same on the different computers but the 'Department' field does not get synced. Any ideas how to fix this?
So sorry...yes I'm using Contacts from Outlook.
When I launch Field Mapping from the Advanced Settings for Address Book, the Handheld fields that are available for me to map to my Contacts in Outlook, do not include the fields previously mentioned so there is no way for me to map them to a destination field in Outlook.
Maybe I'm using an old version of Desktop Manager??? Mine is version 3.6.0.63 (June 11 2003)...could you please let me know what version you have?
Many thanks! -
How do i prompt Address Book to sync?
To Forum,
My Address book syncs with Google and vice versa. How do i prompt Address Book to sync once i have updated items within it? i see it syncs here and there on its own accord? whats the prompt? what do i have to do? or why does it sync when it does?. . .from my old address book. (10.4.11) I tried to import the ABBU file into CONTACTS (10.8.2 ) . The drop down warned that this would "replace" the existing contacts. That is what I wanted to do. Writing over the dozen addresses that I had copied from old emails was no big deal, but now those are gone and the address book is EMPTY. The new addresses are gone and the old addresses did not import.
Help !!! -
Subscribed address book not synced to iPhone
I shared my address book with my wife, and she subscribes to it. Unfortunately, the shared contacts do not make it to her iPhone during a sync. Any Ideas why?
Also, what's the difference between subscribing to a mac address book and syncing using mobileme?
Thanks!I also have this issue. My contacts sync fine from the computer to Mobileme, but the groups don't sync to the iphone. This leaves me with an empty "Groups" window as described by eltons. If I sync through itunes, with Mobileme contacts sync off on the iphone, the groups show up.
Any ideas? Is this consistent with the original post? -
I have programmed iCal and Address book to sync via MobileMe. The info I type in iCal on the MacBook Pro get updated on the iPad, but not the other way around. Any hints?
Levi G B ... Also found another thread by Davidfromsurfside on 10/14/11 0703A with the same problem. I responded on his thread "I have the same problem. IOS5 on iPad1, iPad2 and iPhone4S all with iCloud on. Lion 10.7.2 installed on my MacBookPro and iCloud set up/on. Any new iCal entry on either iPad or on the iPhone ends up via iCloud on both iPads and iPhone. BUT NOT ON THE MacBookPro. And iCal entry on the MacBookPro does NOT GET SENT to iCloud.com or to either iPad or the iPhone. This is a huge problem for me because I do all my office scheduling on the iPad or iPhone but rely on the MakeBookPro to print out daily client lists. I REALLY need to get this fixed...it is causing major business issues. " No one so far has had a fix.... :(
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