basically there are 3 steps.
- enable google and yahoo in the addressbook preferences (you need to enable yahoo so that it will sync properly.)
- enable isync in the top bar thingy
- sync
ok, so on to step one.
- open addressbook. goto preferences > general.
- tick the box for enable yahoo sync.
- fill in your details tick the box for enable google sync.
- fill in your details.
if you dont have the option to enable google sync then you need to plug in an ipod touch or an iphone, or search google for a way to enable it without one.
- you need to enable yahoo syncing so that the next step works.
now on to step two.
- open up isync (applications > isync)
- goto preferences
- tick enable syncing on this computer
- tick ‘show status in menu bar’
now onto step 3.
- hit the big sync devices button in isync or goto the menu bar and click the sync icon
- sync now.
- done.
you will now have all your gmail contacts in addressbook and will most likely need to sort them all and merge a few. good luck.
So I have a MBP, an iPhone, and a Gmail account. I use my Gmail account for email, the calendar and contacts. I currently have my mail sent to the MBP Mail and my iPhone Mail.
I also have my contacts sync wirelessly from Gmail to my iPhone, and I have my calendar sync wirelessly from Gmail to my iPhone and to iCal.
The problems I have are when I check email on my iPhone it never marks it as read on my MBP Mail. When I read mail on my MBP it doesn’t mark it as read in my iPhone. Also my contacts in my iPhone sync with Gmail contacts wirelessly and seamlessly. However when I throw in the Mac Address Book I have to press the sync button, which is a manual process.
Any ideas to:
1) sync contacts between Gmail and MBP Address Book wireless
2) have mail that has been read on MBP Mail to show as read on iPhone and mail read on iPhone to show as read on MBP mail.
I’m using Exchange for the wireless sync between Gmail and the iPhone for contacts and the calendar and using IMAP for Gmail mail and the iPhone. Then I’m using CalDAV accounts to wirelessly sync my Gmail calendar with my MBP iCal which works great! Also using the CalDAV to wirelessly sync one of my calendars to my MS Outlook calendar at work with the Google Sync app.
-Michael
mjtruncale (at gmail)
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sorry to never respond to you, michael.
the answer to your question (which took me an age to fully get working)
is here
http://jonathansblog.co.uk/2010/01/08/ical-google-calendar-delegates-updated/
that post has everything to get contacts, mail and calendars in sync between google, your mac and your iphone
I have recently tried to sync everything via my macbook (ical, address book) to my gmail account and iphone. I seem to have figured out calendar and mail no problem. Syncing isn’t having any issues. Yet I am still having issues with Address Book. Whenever I make a change in my address book on my mac, the change isn’t going to google. There seems to be no issue from my iphone to google. But the syncing between address book and google isn’t working. Any advice?
the addressbook sync isnt great. it will sync with gmail, but its not perfect. it does not always sync instantly. and sometimes it will pop up a dialog that says ‘do you want to use the contact in addressbook, or the one on google’ the answer to this dialog is: i want to use the one that was changed closest to the time now, so if i just changed the gmail contact, use that. if i just changed the addressbook contact, use that.
hopefully this will be fixed in 10.7 or sooner
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