06-20-2011, 05:43 PM
I've been trying to sync my Google Contacts with the Address Book (ver 4.1.2 running on OS X 10.5.8).
I don't have an iphone but my Palm Pixi will sync with Google Contacts. I want to have Address Book synced so that I'm not dependent on my phone or being online/cloud to lookup a contact.
I've been able to follow this convoluted process. These instructions have you change a plist (to get sync working without an attached device) and require you setup a Yahoo account (luckily I have one) even though you don't sync from it.
I've actually been able to get Address Book to import my Gmail contacts via iSync, which is comforting. However, changes I make in Address Book are not reflected in Google Contacts nor is any data that was originally stored in Address Book syncing with Google Contacts.
Anyone currently use Google Contacts and Address Book (without an iphone) successfully?
For what it's worth, Google Calendar/iCal and Gmail/Mail sync beautifully to my mac as well as to my Palm Pixi. Both iCal and Mail provide me with a non cloud-based backup and offline access.
I don't have an iphone but my Palm Pixi will sync with Google Contacts. I want to have Address Book synced so that I'm not dependent on my phone or being online/cloud to lookup a contact.
I've been able to follow this convoluted process. These instructions have you change a plist (to get sync working without an attached device) and require you setup a Yahoo account (luckily I have one) even though you don't sync from it.
I've actually been able to get Address Book to import my Gmail contacts via iSync, which is comforting. However, changes I make in Address Book are not reflected in Google Contacts nor is any data that was originally stored in Address Book syncing with Google Contacts.
Anyone currently use Google Contacts and Address Book (without an iphone) successfully?
For what it's worth, Google Calendar/iCal and Gmail/Mail sync beautifully to my mac as well as to my Palm Pixi. Both iCal and Mail provide me with a non cloud-based backup and offline access.