Synching address book across two computers

Why aren't the changes on my second computer showing up when I sync our main laptop to .mac and then tell the second computer to update itself from .mac? I make a lot of changes in address book and want the computers to "match"

Hi
There are several third-party solutions. When I was without .Mac I used Address-O-Sync. You can find others on versiontracker.
Matt

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Hi Jake, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I was thinking about trying to use migration assistant (but I don't have any experience with it and don't know if it can accomplish this).
MA will copy everything, but to a new Account if the name is the same.
Is there a way to merge the iPhoto libraries?
For that one I'd use Import on one from iPhoto's File Menu.
For Mail I'd also use Imprt.
For Address Book, Select all or the ones not on the other one, Eport/Save as vCard, Import that vCard on the other one.
However, although many the files within her folders are similar, some vary (i.e. The laptop might have a newer version of one file and another file might exist on the iMac but not the iBook).
I use Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/index.html
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Thanks so much for your detailed reply. Much appreciated!
Just to confirm my understanding that 100% clear on the solution, if my wife gets her own iCloud account, on her phone she'll receive her own emails & iMessages (makes sense) but not contacts. Calendars though we could share.
Without two separate iCloud accts though -- iCloud on my phone, and her email through Gmail on her phone -- we could share all the common iCloud data (contacts, calendar, notes, reminders, etc.) by enabling the appropriate settings on her phone.
Am I correct to conclude then that the sole benefit of her adding own iCloud acct is email through iCloud (and I guess the free 5GB)? It would not be possible to simply and easily have one common 'family' address book (i.e. since while Calendars are share-able, contact libraries are not)?

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