Syncing address book groups to .mac account

Can address groups be syncronized to my address book on my .mac account?

Hi Matt,
I'm trying to figure this out also. So far, I haven't been able to figure out how. All contacts are sync'd but not in groups. Hopefully, someone will have a suggestion.
Clint
17 G4 iMac 1ghz/1gb, blu2th keyboard, Airport Extreme Mac OS X (10.4.6) LaCie 160 gb

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Sync address book groups to .Mac?

I just recently singed up for a .Mac membership. I've sync-ed information to .Mac, but was dissapointed to find that only addresses without the address groups I had made in my local address book were sync-ed. I need these groups, as it will be cumbersome to send an e-mail to a group of people (20+) from my .Mac account.
Is it possible to also sync groups, or is there any other way around this issue?
Regards,
Hall

Greetings,
Indeed, .Mac currently does not sync Group designations between your desktop and the online Addressbook.
The only work around that I am aware of is to create on card that contains a listing of all email addresses in it. Bear in mind, that you must make a comma seperated list of all email addresses that you want to send to and add that list to a new card as if it were one email address. This solution is rather cumbersome to use and difficult to keep up to date.
It is much simpler to adminster groups and group emails from a desktop email client.
I suggest that you leave feedback ( go to www.mac.com and locate the link for feedback) to suggest this feature (as I have done as well).
Also, you may find more accurate support for issues like this in the .Mac section of these Discussion boards rather than the Tiger (OS X) section.
-travis n

Sync Address Book across two Macs w/o .Mac

How do I sync two address books across two Macs without using .Mac?

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

Ipad 4 sync address book from mini mac snow lepoard. ?

1) I am unable to sync my address book from mini mac snow lepoard to my ipad 4.
2) How do i turn of the icloud......
3) How do I add more mailboxes to my email to file emails..???
All assistance geatly appreciated...ty

No you can sync them over a local network or USB cable, you just can't do so by iCloud.
The other option would be to sync your mobile devices with iCloud and use the contacts feature at iCloud.com rather than the Address Book when using the computer.

Sync'ing Address Book groups to .Mac when running 10.4.11

I cannot seem to find the appropriate setting in the Address Book (10.4.11) or .Mac to allow for sync'ing of a Group. All the Apple Support Docs I've run across reference iSync, which is no longer applicable in this situation. Any pointers/redirection are appreciated. TIA...

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Sync address book between 2 macs?

How do you transfer all address book contents from MacBook Pro to an Air and thereafter sync them?
Same question ref calendar?

I was not suggesting to use your iPhone to sync the 2 computers.
What I was suggesting was that if you have an iPhone that you can sigh up for iCloud which will store your contacts and calendars and then sync them with all your Apple devices. You don't have to use it for anything else if you kdon't want to.
I personally use Google to sync my Android phone contacts and calendar with both my Mac Address book and iCal and my Windows PCs using Mozilla Thunderbird email program Address book and a Calendar add-on. I also use Thunderbird on the Mac and sync the contacts directly in TB with my Google account.
Other then doing something like that there is NO WAY.
Good Luck and Best Wishes.

Sync Address Book With Quickbooks Mac 2007

Do I need to have a .mac account for this to work? I would assume the QB application and files which are on my computer would work the same as ALL the other programs which tap into Address Book for it's data. or is this just one more reason why I hate Quickbooks. Please give any instructions on how to make contacts in QB match my contacts in address book. Thanks!

I feel your pain man. My problem is the Address Book is not removing "customers" I have made Inactive in QB. And I can only assume that's because QB is not updating the information correctly so the Address Book can reflect those changes. I wish there was a manual command I could do in QB that allows you to update the data now. As opposed to it be done in the background. I mean how long does that take and why should I have to wait for that to take place. When I want to update something I want to do it then and there.
My business is service oriented and involves delivery of products. So when I build a new customer contact I have a Bill To address, Ship To address and phone numbers. Once updated in my Address Book I can then update my iPhone with the latest Address Book info. Then if a customer calls or I need to call them I can do so by name. And when it comes time for that delivery, I launch the iPhone Maps app, select that contact and I'm on my way. I can't tell you how cool that is.
So when it does work it is a beautiful system that saves time and duplication of data. But as it is now it's more frustrating then it's worth and just reflects poorly on Intuit and their failure to fix this problem.

How to sync Address Book with multiple macs

What are the methods for having 1 address book and having them synced over multiple macs.
I have:
- 1 iMac (24 inch)
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- 1 iPhone
I'm using all of them (sounds weird, eh?) and I want to be able to have them synced automatically. One update on my iPhone reflects the other Address books.
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Agreed, $99 a year seems like a bit much if that's all you want to do.
If you trust web-based free email services like Gmail, you can export your Address Book(s) and those on other platforms and manage it from there.
Downside is that there is apparently NOT an 'export' back at the present time if you decide to change.
So, for now I use MobileMe for the convenience, because $99 a year is easier than wading through three or four different programs and operating systems on multiple platforms.

Syncing address book from a Mac

After several years of easily syncing my BlackBerry Curve 8530 to my Mac, I suddenly can't do it. I get the following error message: The Address Book database cannot be accessed for synchroniztion. For help resolving this issue, refer to KB19454 in the BlackBerry Desktop Software Knowledge Base.
I can't find KB19454 in the database. I can't find a way to call BlackBerry to resolve this. My Sprint store won't touch my Mac (and vice versa). Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
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Address book duplicates on Mac account

I have duplicates of all my addresses when I log into my mac account. How do I resolve this problem ?
power book Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hansman,
I have a similar problem, in that the duplictaes have the city embedded ionto the end of the address and the state, zip, country all move up a field.
This is not good...
Hopefully someone will address and fix this.
It isn't helping me to have a .mac account, when it wrongly rearranges the book.
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I have set up ical and address book on my mac. We have 2 separate mail accounts but want to sync ical and addresses to both phones can i do this

I have set up ical and address book on my mac
We have 2 gmail addresses and 2 icloud accounts
I would like to share the ical and address book between the 2 phones
is that possible - any help gratefully rec'd !!

He needs to add your Apple ID in settings > mail, contacts, calendars (as a secondary iCloud account), then check contacts and calendars from the options available.
Note, he would be able to enable mail, reminders etc as well at will. should he wish to do so. If you are OK with that, it should all work as you want it to.

I have all of my contacts on my new iPhone, but none in my address book on my mac, and I can't get them to sync. Can someone help?

I had a bunch of junk entries in the address book on the mac, so I never synced the 2 when I had an iPhone 3GS. I got an iPhone 4 and even after deleting everything in the bunk address book, wasn't able to sync the iPhone 3GS's contacts (it had them all under a group for my my expired MobileMe account). So I got the iDrive Contacts app and back them up out there then ported them down to the new iPhone 4.
Confusing yet?
So now I have all of my contacts on the new phone (whew!) but I still can't get them into my address book on the mac. What in the world am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help!!
Kim

Connect your iPhone 4 to your Mac. iTunes should open. Look on the left, you should see "Kim's iPhone" or something similar. Click on it. Then look at the top of the iTunes window, click on "Info". You can tick the box to sync your contacts from here. There are also options to sync with the cloud, with MobileMe, Google, Yahoo, etc, which allow automatic wireless syncing. Be careful here though, it's very easy to accidentally duplicate your contacts!

ISync syncs to wrong Address Book group

When I sync my phone (Nokia 3230) with my MacBook, I designate the Address Book group titled "Contacts in 3230" to be synced. But contacts that I've added to the phone (my usual way of adding new contacts) are transferred to my "All" contacts in Address Book, but NOT to the designated group. To correct this, I have to manually try to remember what contacts were added to the phone, and then copy them from "All" into the "Contacts in 3230" group.
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I have the same problem with a Nokia 6230. Really annoying as i sync has now cluttered up my mac address book with phone contacts that i wanted in a specific group called 'nokia back up' Also I tried putting a test item in this folder and this did not download onto the phone. I don't want my phone filled with all of my contacts and i don't want my mac filled with all the temporary contacts that end up in a phone on a Friday night. All i want is to back up my phone to my mac in case i loose it. should be simple enough!

I am having trouble trying to get my address book from my mac (just downloaded Lion for this purpose) to my 3G ipad. Set up an icloud account but still confused! Please help !

I updated my mac with os x Lion so that I could accomplish moving my address book from the mac to my new IPad 3G. I also set up an icloud account for this purpose, but I *still* cannot figure out how to move my address book from one computer to the other. When I'm on my mac and try to use bluetooth to export the address book, I'm able to find my ipad but I soon get a message that it does not support the necessary services. I have no idea what's going on and would appreciate any advice. tks in advance, Sarah

blacksheepfibers wrote:
I updated my mac with os x Lion so that I could accomplish moving my address book from the mac to my new IPad 3G. I also set up an icloud account for this purpose, but I *still* cannot figure out how to move my address book from one computer to the other. When I'm on my mac and try to use bluetooth to export the address book, I'm able to find my ipad but I soon get a message that it does not support the necessary services. I have no idea what's going on and would appreciate any advice. tks in advance, Sarah
The address book syncs via iCloud, not Bluetooth or iTunes.
You upgraded to Lion so you could use iCoud.
On the computer. go to Apple menu > System prefs > iCloud.
Sign into your iCloud account.
Tick everything.
This enalbes the se items syncing to iCloud.
On the iPad, Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Create a new iCloud account.
Sign in with the same AppleID as your computer.
Settings > iCloud and turn everything on.
BAM!
That is all you need to do.
Your contacts (and all other checked items checked) will sync between computer and iPad.
No need to use iTunes

Address Book "On My Mac" & Exchange Sync

Exchange has been set up for a while to Sync with address book. I noticed that a friends birthday was not appearing in iCal when it should.
Checking the settings in iCal, I noticed that it's taking the birthday's from my address book "On My Mac" and not the exchange account that I use as default.
There are settings to sync with MobileMe, Google and Yahoo!, but not Exchange. Exchange seems to be just all on it's own with nobody to play with.
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I've done a search of the support, but cant find anything relating to this question. If you know of a thread, please paste it for me.
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Syncing address book groups to .mac account

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