Address Book/ Gmail chat/ Jabber

I set up Google Talk following the online instructions.
It automatically downloaded the two contacts from that address book, but then I started trying to add additional contacts to the google chat.
When I clicked "add" and typed in the name my address book came up and then I added the google email address as the Jabber account and made the gmail account the only account, but it deleted all of the other email addresses that I had for those people in Address Book and it doesn't have an undo feature to get back those addresses. Help! I need them and I don't know how to get them back!
Also, I would like to add more contacts to the Jabber/ Gmail chat and I don't kow how using iChat.
THis is confusing.

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...

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Basic question about address book / gmail sync

Does the itunes address book / gmail sync feature only sync between those two contact lists, or if I enable gmail sync, will all of my gmail contacts be put on my iphone?
I have only one folder of about 200 contacts in address book synced to my iphone. But address book and gmail have about 1,000 contacts each. I don't want all of those contacts on my phone.
Thanks.

Found an answer to my main question regarding the separate address books, looks like Lion Server is capable of doing personal address books for each user: http://www.wegotserved.com/2011/10/06/os-lion-server-home-server-part-11-shared- address-book/

Address Book/Gmail sync

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 snapshot

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 synch (in 10.5.3)

Im not sure if the address book synch with GMail contacts is working properly.
I have 461 contacts in my Address Book... but only 250 contacts are showing in GMail?
What gives?

Same issue here, and I found a "fix" at MacFixit:
"Mac OS X OS X 10.5.5 (#3): Address Book freezes
Address Book freezes Users who have set up a up a "smart group" in Address Book that uses non-conditional (e.g. Cards not in a group") may find that the application and is constantly unresponsive after installing Mac OS X 10.5.5.
This problem can be fixed by quitting Address Book, deleting the file ~/Library/Application Support/Addressbook-v22.abcddb, then going the Metadata folder and find the entries with the word 'smart' in them. Delete the negative conditional entries and relaunch Address Book."
I did this... and now I am able to use Address Book again. Phew! What a bad bug.
I'm wondering if I can now re-create those Smart Groups again, or is that just asking for trouble?

How can I sync a specific group of contacts from Address Book to Google?

Let's say I have two contact groups: one is called 'Colleagues', another is 'Friends',
how can I only sync 'Friends' to Gmail contacts?
As I tried to sync my Address Book to Gmail contacts, all of them (both 'Colleagues' & 'Friends') were sync'd to Gmail contacts.
I can't find a way to deal with it.
Thanks in advance!
PS:
(1) I set up Address Book <-> Gmail contacts sync in this way: went to Address Book, then went to 'Preferences...' -> 'Accounts' -> 'Account Information' -> ticked 'Synchronize with Google'
(2) I am using Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4, version of Address Book: 5.0.2, version of iSync: 3.1.1

Hi 1234khashayar,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
You can create groups in your iCloud account at www.icloud.com. Once created, they will appear on your iPhone.
iCloud: Create a group and add contacts to it
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2667?viewlocale=en_US
Cheers,
- Judy

How to tell which address book contact belongs to?

Hello
I have multiple address books (gmail, Outlook, work, etc...).
As each address book has over 100+ entries, I look for contacts by searching (Simply starting typing their name!)
When viewing the contact, how can one tell which address book they belong to?
When I try editing, unable to edit which address book they belong to.
I'm sure I'm not the only one. Search here ... nothing yet ... at least I do not see it
Super thanks Blackberry lovers!
Anthony
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Open the contact in question. At the bottom click on Links. It will tell you the contacts list(s) it belongs to.
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Does Lion allow you to edit the Address Book chat list yet so you can add Skype or Gmail? Real pain not having these

Does Lion allow you to edit the Address Book chat list yet so you can add Skype or Gmail?
Real pain not having these
Thanks
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Does Lion allow you to edit the Address Book chat list yet so you can add Skype or Gmail?
Real pain not having these
Thanks
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How to batch add contacts from Address Book to Jabber?

Hi Guys,
I've recently imported my contacts from my hotmail account. Some of these are AIM, Gmail (iChat compatible accounts). Instead of adding one by one can i batch add them from my address book?
Cheers
Jim

Hi,
Yes.
Click on names in the Address Book (you can either do this with the Shift or Apple key as Modifiers or create Groups to keep Jabber and AIM buddies separate at this stage.)
Once Highlighted drag them to the relevant iChat Buddy List.
(I once did 249 people like this.)
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Jabber for Windows 10.5 shows contacts from Address Book multiple times?

What would cause Jabber for Windows 10.5.1 to show a contact multiple times from the address book when searching? See attached screenshot.

I tried removing firefox and rebooting/reinstalling Jabber with no luck. I reimaged my machine and loaded 10.5.2 fresh install with no previous versions and still getting the random crash. Also, I have users who say it has crashed on them during a WebEx and have had installation problems when upgrading from 9.x to 10.5.x. Version 9 is very solid, sticking with 9.7.5. I have about 10% of my test users having varying problems with version 10.5.x, waiting till the next release. Hopefully Cisco will spend a few more weeks testing the next one before publishing it on their site.
--edit--
Also, when you finally get frustrated and want to downgrade, Jabber 10.5.x doesn't uninstall completely and you end up with an error like the image attached when you try to install v9.7.5 for example and can't install Jabber even after rebooting. I had to run Microsoft Fix It install/Uninstall option and tell it to uninstall Jabber before Windows allowed me to install an older version of Jabber. Not too happy with this release. Strange enough though, some of my users have the exact same laptop I do, same windows build, same patches, etc, and it works fine for them. Anyway, not deploying this one. Good luck.

I am having trouble sending bulk emails (less than 100 at a time) on my gmail account using group names created from my address book. I use Mail on my I-Mac. When I try to send out a bulk email, the message shows up that my server can't send them, etc.

I am having trouble sending bulk emails from a Mail Group (less than 100 at a time) on my gmail account. They come back saying the server can't recognize the data and try again with selected server or try later or edit message, all of which I have attempted a number of times, including re-booting the computer. I am wondering if there is something wrong in my Address Book? I have check Apple Preferences, and Mail Preferences and all seems in order. I can send to any of the individual addresses, but not in a group.
Thanks for your help.

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How can I use apple mail (linked to gmail) and get it to only do autofill on the contacts that I have in apple address book?

How can I use apple mail (linked to gmail) and get it to only do autofill on the contacts that I have in apple address book? Everytime I write an email on the Apple mail app (as well as in Gmail) it recommends a bunch of emails that are not my contacts. I want it to just autofill for the contacts that I have in my address book. Is this possible? Thank you. I have an Imac Intel version and an Iphone 5 phone.

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Lion Address Book problem - all of over 2,000 contacts disappeared - one mysteriously reappeared - then they all reappeared during resync with Gmail!

The subject iine pretty much describes what happened.
I am wondering if it is anything to do with what looks like an odd file in the directory ~ Library -> Application Support -> Address Book
As well as the "real" database file there is this zero bytes one:
AddressBook-v22.abcddb.0F392545-78F2-4AE6-8D30-457C138332B2.unknown
From the date, it might be something to do with installing and linking Cobook to Address Book maybe?
These are the files and folders in that directory (sub-directory files not shown):
I have enabled the debug menu in Address Book but have not been able to find any info about how to use it. I lie! I did read that I might possibly have been able to "retrieve" the contacts using the debug menu "Force Refresh" - however that was after I had started to resync with Gmail contacts.
I realised that something odd was going on during resync when I saw that there were over 4,000 contacts being processed rather than the 2,000 or so that I was expecting. Initially, none of the contacts groups from Gmail were showing in Address Book after this partial sync (I stopped it when I saw what was happening). However, after quitting and restarting Address Book, the groups appeared again.
I have not lost my contact data - as well as Gmail contacts I also have an Address Book backup from about two weeks ago and also the backup created by Cobook about two weeks ago. (Installed Cobook as it looked like a very efficient way of getting to view individual contacts quickly - Quicksilver just isn't finding them at all). I used third party app "Contacts Sync for Google Gmail" to link Address Book with Gmail as it gives you options about what to do for each duplicate card that it identifies.
I then spent a lot of time sorting through the contacts on Address Book, finding duplicates, updating data, etc. with the intention of managing contacts in Address Book from then on, rather than in Gmail. Not all of these changes are reflected in the Cobook backup or Gmail.
My worry is, with Lion being such a god-awful Pig's Ear in so many more ways than this, that this Address Book mess might happen again.
I seem to have spent most of my time over the last month wrestling with the numerous problems that keep cropping up with Lion and getting little to show for it.
WARNING! FOOT-STAMPING WHINGE ABOUT LION - LOOK AWAY AND DOWN TO THE HOWLING FACES - IT WON'T BE ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVEN'T HEARD BEFORE:
I gave up on OSX when I tried Panther - that was dreadful - but was lured back by Tiger, have used Leopard very comfortably for about 5 years, had a very happy couple of months with Snow Leopard and now - this mess that is Lion! I have repaired OSX install permissions and "home user" permissions time and again, TinkerTooled it until I am blue in the face and it seems that every few days I manage to fix something and then almost immediately something else screws up. I can't upgrade to Mountain Lion on this machine and am seriously considering installing or running Linux as these problems with Lion are just never-ending - and then there are all the other stupid changes that have subsequently been sensibly reverted, mitigated or worked around in ML).
I have never bothered much with Address Book or Mail in the past as I have found them too limited. I have used either the Gmail web interface or Thunderbird. However, Gmail has started crashing my favourite browsers (Seamonkey and Firefox), Thunderbird has got just a bit too complicated and I cannot get Quicksilver to play ball with Gmail. The Lion version of Address Book is better than Gmail Contacts and Mail Smart Folders can emulate Gmail filters and labels - a huge improvement. So, just when these apps look good enough to be worth bothering with, they come part and parcel with what I have seen mocked, and rightly, as "Apple Vista"!
Sorry for that but I am about at the end of my tether with it all ;-/
I would be very grateful if anyone can offer any advice about:
1) That strange looking zero bytes file in the Address Book folder.
2) Whether the Address Book debug menu options might be of any help in this situation?
There seem to be lots of people having problems with Address Book in both Lion and Mountain Lion, if not exactly this issue, so maybe the answers will help others too.
Fingers crossed!
Ms Mousette
ps. In the product list to tick for this question they are grouped so I cannot specify that this is actually nothing to do with the iPhone. I have got a load of contacts on my iPhone too but I am not going to sync them until I have got this issue sorted out.

Could this font be the cause of the problem?
Possibly, since that font is not the one that Address Book uses and there is no method to specify or change the font used by Address Book. You could have recovered your Address Book contacts without syncing, so that could also be part of the problem. You should always make a keep a backup of your Address Book on your computer and in another safe location whenever you make any change to it.
May I ask why you haven't updated to 10.4.11 yet, as it provides various bug fixes and security enhancements?
Mulder

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?
I tried using ABGMerge, but could not get it to work so and am looking for other options. Thanks.
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The Plaxo 3 non-pubic beta application currently supports only Mozilla and FireFox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6. Safari support, and support for updated OS X thrid-party browsers, has not yet been released. To say that there are some anomalies and visual artifacts with Safari 2, would be an understatement. But, then, I often find this to be the case with beta—particularly, pre-public beta, software.
The current release—build 356—supports these 'sync points:'
• Mac OS X through a System Preferences pane
• AOL and AIM
• LinkedIn
• mobile access
• MSN and WIndows Live
• Outlook
• Outlook Express
• Windows Mail
• Yahoo
It does not yet support Google. Or, not yet reliably or completely. The little 'hippo' that pops up periodically in the beta says, "Google Calendar Sync has been temporarily disabled. We are working diligently to resolve the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience."
The verdict at the moment: contact synchronization performs as it always has with Plaxo. Calendar synchronization is clearly not yet ready for prime-time, even to the Plaxo 3 web interface itself.

Address Book sync to Gmail?

I'm running Leopard Mail and Address Book but I'd like Gmail (via the web site) to also have my addresses. There are a lot of them - it would take forever to manage manually. Is there a way to sync them?

If you do not own an iPhone, you may not see the option in Address Book to sync contacts with Google's Gmail. If you are not seeing the option in the preferences of Address Book > General, then read the 3 steps in the follow post on how to enable the Gmail contact option box:
http://lifehacker.com/393855/enable-google-contact-sync-without-an-iphone-or-ipo d-touch
(Excerpt:)
Here's what you do:
1. If you don't have the Property List Editor installed, download the shareware PlistEdit Pro and install.
2. Open up ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod.plist and save a backup copy of it. Then, expand the tree to reveal "Family ID." Change that value to 10001, as shown above.
3. Save your changes. Launch Address Book and open the Preference pane. The Google contact sync option will be staring right at you.
Next, open iSync, choose iSync > Preferences, and then select “Show status in menu bar.” Quit iSync. Click the Sync menu in the menu bar and choose Sync Now. (taken from Address Book Help > Synchronizing with Google Contacts).
Voilé!

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