I want the same address book on my two Macs

Using Sync, it seems easy to exchange your address book data with your mobile phone etc. But all I want is the address books on my two Macs be identical. Sync just does not seem the appropiate tool for that. How do I do this?
iMac G4 + Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.3) Tiger on the Mini, Panther on the iMac

.Mac Sync - which requires a .Mac account - is the Apple recommended method for synchronizing iCal or Address Book data on two or more Macintosh desktop or portable computers.
You can alternatively use MySync [currently in beta] so long as both Macintoshes are located on the same subnet.
http://www.mildmanneredjanitor.com/mysync

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I guess we actually don't have a good reason. There are 4 family members using the computer, it's usually on all the time, and I guess we thought it would be easier to be able to just jump on and off without switching. But if that is the only way to have separate address books we may have to set it up that way. So do you think thats pretty much what we have to do?

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Checkout the macosxhints.com article "Share one Address Book among multiple users".

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Try some dedicated add-ons, eg.:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/duplicate-contact-manager-2/
https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/thunderbird/addon/duplicate-contact-manager/

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Hi
We have a PC with two different Users but there is one email address shared between them. We have a copy of Thunderbird installed one each User and one User has multiple accounts for privacy reasons. It would be really helpful to have a shared addressbook in common to access addresses from. Is this possible?
Cheers, Marcus

Marcus,
Nothing really easy comes to mind, but here are two ideas to consider, depending on how frequently the address book changes:
1) If the shared email address happens to be gmail, then each user can install the gContactSync add-on and let Google have the master copy. This would give each of you frequent synchronizations to the same address book.
2) An easy, but not automatic approach would be for one user to be in charge of changes and periodically (daily, weekly, ...) export the address book to an ldif file. The other user then could import the address book to his/her TB account.
- duggabe

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I'm a little miffed right now because I just spend 20 minutes on the phone with apple support who told what I needed to do but couldn't tell me 'how' to do it.
I'm trying to print multiple postcards (pages default if 4 postcards/page), all I want to do is merge my address book onto these postcards with EACH SEPARATE POSTCARD having different address...that means on a page with 4 postcards, I have 4 different addresses. What currently is happening is that I'm merging about 200 addresses from my address book, and it creates the same address 4 times(on one page, all four postcards), then creates another page for the next address (4 more postcards on that page). This leads to 4x's the amount of postcards I need to actually print.
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Cgip wrote:
Here's my question then, if the default in the postcard template is 4 post cards/page, how do I change it to one? This really seems like it'd be an easy fix, but I may be wrong.
I wrote:
The merge tool merges one record in one document. If the document is a "one_page" one, this means one record per page even if the document uses only 1/4 of the sheet.
We are writing upon a MERGE tool, not upon a LABELIZER one !
The only soluce would be to use a custom paper size whose height and width will be half the standard one.
Doing that you will be able to print one card on one small page.
If you try to put a single card on a page you will leave 3/4 of the sheet white.
You may also build four templates,
one with the card top-left
one with the card top-right
one with the card bottom-left
one with the card bottom-right
So you will be able to print
1/4 of cards with template 1
1/4 of cards with template 2
1/4 of cards with template 3
1/4 of cards with template 4
As I wrote, "doing (exactly) what you wish can't be done with Pages".
This is what was responded many times.
What you wish has nothing to do with MERGE. It's the job of a LABELIZER tool !
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 3 mai 2008 18:59:03)

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...but when I fill a table with merge fields, it ends up creating multiple entries for the same address, rather than one table full of each address. Please help.
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That is a quirk of Pagesthat it applies only one record per page.
There is a way around this:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=245&highlight=labels &mforum=iworktipsntrick
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Make hidden files and folders visible:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
'''First locate all address book filenames in thunderbird.'''
* In Thunderbird:
* Help > Troubleshooting Information
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a new window opens.
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* In thunderbird:
* Tools > Options > Advanced > General tab
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it will tell you to be careful :)
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'''How to search for each address book using info gained from checking the Profile folder.'''
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ldap_2.servers.pab.filename; abook.mab
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* ldap_2.servers.pab.dirType; Value = 2
* ldap_2.servers.pab.filename; Value = abook.mab
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In top search type: XXXX - whatever the actual description XXXX said to get the 'description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position'
'''Please report back on results.'''
Did you locate:
eg: ldap_2.servers.XXXX.description; Value = Z addressbook name
or was this still listed as old name without the Z part?
Did you locate all of these 'description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position' for each of the missing address books?
or were only some of these shown? Tell us what you found.
Did you find that there were .mab files in Profile folder but they were missing in Config Editor or in Config Editor but not in Profile folder?
Please state what was found. You can copy paste from the config editor.

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Ron

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Question:
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