Comments on: Sync your Mac Address Book with Google Contacts

By: Terri W

Terri W — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:58:19 +0000

I have a new problem that has cropped up recently. I’ve had my Address Book sync successfully from my Google contacts for a long long time, but just recently I’ve noticed that the contacts pics in my address book are now gone – even though they’re still in my Google contacts. What’s up? What’s changed? Even contacts in the Address Book that once had pics don’t have pics any more. All the other information syncs correctly.

By: Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:22:47 +0000

Thank you, thankyouverymuch! Spyr0s, that was the winning strategy – it’s a kludgey workaround, but work it did!

By: Colin Archer

Colin Archer — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:25:51 +0000

I dont have mobileme account but have successfully manually sync’d adddress book with gmail contacts and to my iphone by hitting the isync icon top right

will the syncing continue automatically when i make changes within address book to my phone and gmail account

or do i have to manually sync every time changes are made, kind of defeats the object but i do understand why if it is the case

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:50:29 +0000

I’ve followed the directions but there is no “Sync Now” option that I can find from the Address Book or in Finder. And in iSync, it just tells me it can’t find any devices. I have OSX 10.6.8

By: bradp

bradp — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:47 +0000

yup! me too, duplicated!
any way to fix this??

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:39 +0000

For everyone who can’t find the “Sync Now” button (like me), it’s on the upper right side of your Mac desktop screen, near the icons for the Bluetooth, Wifi, volume and battery. It looks like a little set of arrows making a circle. Hope this helps!

By: iGnome

iGnome — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:53:32 +0000

Just like to add a bit of my learning to the knowledge pool. I was being driven demented because every time I Synced I was creating duplicates but not of all my contacts. In the end I sussed out that I was using two fields for first name and second name but sometimes I would enter for example Mike & Helen all in the first field (they are friends I didn’t need their surname). But when it synced with google, Google made a call and entered it as Mike (first name field) & (middle name field) Helen (surname field). Now the next time I synced address book would see this as a new contact and the time after that google would see the two of them, hence two copies on gmail and mac address book. So moral of the story is you have to play by google’s rules and enter separate words in separate fields. I found adding ‘middle name’ to the address card template helped me to do this.

I Really wanted to post this somewhere because I get so much online help. Chose OSX daily and this thread cos OSX daily is the best! (But please lads get an ios ipad app together because the x2 iphone app looks rubbish)

By: iPhone: my first personal smartphone and the first 15 predictable free apps I downloaded « Christopher Wink

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:58:17 +0000

[...] Contacts — It’s not an app, but I did use this and this post to sync my Google contacts with my Mac Address Book to then have all my contacts on [...]

By: spyr0s

spyr0s — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:55:16 +0000

I only sync contacts between mac & iphone. Once every 2-3 months, I delete me gmail contacts and then I import my mac contacts again.

1. Open Address Book, click into a contact, sellect all [cmd+A]

2. File -> export -> export vCard… -> Save

3. Log in to gmail, go to -> Contacts -> more -> import -> choose file -> select the saved file

4. All your mac address book contacts will be added to gmail contacts

cheers

By: janet

janet — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:20:20 +0000

I have followed the steps above several times but I do not see any option on the menu bar that says SYNC or ISYNC. What am I doing wrong?

By: John

John — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:18:29 +0000

To BigJimT and everybody else. His suggestion with hte fake user name and password at the Mobile me worked just fine.
If you cannot sync just right click on the isync, open Mobile me pref. and enter a new user name and password. It can be any stupid combination of letters and numbers. Then hit the sync now and it will sync. I run Snow Leopard 10.6.8

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:15:04 +0000

so… ignore the errors from the Sync Now menu? Errors that say I didn’t give it a valid MobileMe password??

By: Donald Lawton

Donald Lawton — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:25:07 +0000

Aaron, did you try downloading the “Contacts Sync With Groups For Gmail” app at the Mac App Store? It will sync groups like you were asking for.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:13:21 +0000

Everything worked great when syncing my google contacts over to my mac address book. however, it did not sync my groups. any way to fix this?

By: jj

jj — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:06:05 +0000

Thankyou once again, after reading pages of people saying “press the sync icon manually”, finally someone explains that the sync option is NOT an icon on the toolbar of the app.
All hail Scott.