Comments on: Sync your Mac Address Book with Google Contacts

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.

By: Aalap

Aalap — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:56:32 +0000

My adressbook synched with google contacts but it duplicates all entries. as previously i was having around 2600 entries in both my google contacts and address book and all were same. but after synching it became 4710 both side. please help if you know why!!!

By: John

John — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:36:10 +0000

thanks Scott, as Zely says below, you’re the ONLY one that actually provided me with the RIGHT solution!!! I’m fairly new to the Mac and smartphone (Android) systems and couldn’t get the final step (syncing) done. Thanks a million!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:43:34 +0000

Is there a way to set the priority to your mac book address book when ongoing sync takes place. I make changes in address book only to have them overridden during the sync processes by the old data on the google database.

By: zely

zely — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:22:31 +0000

thanks Scott, you’re the ONLY one that actually provided me with the RIGHT solution!!! i’m new to the mac scene (prev a pc user) and didn’t know where that sync option was…so thanks for that!