Syncing Google Apps Contacts and OSX Address Book - Page 2

7on · Jan 5, 2012, 08:55 AM

For god's sake it's now in the AddressBook as of SL and Lion. Supported out of the box! My original post was for 10.4 I believe, it won't work for the new OSes, but it's native in 10.6/7 now.

Kinobi · Feb 15, 2012, 02:34 PM

so did you get it to work?

I have Google Apps account free version but I am getting password rejected; I tried everything I could with no results

angelique · Feb 18, 2012, 03:57 PM

I don't see it supported out of the box in my brand new Mac Mini. Can you show me? Tried the Exchange route and that doesn't work as others have found too.

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Originally Posted by 7on

For god's sake it's now in the AddressBook as of SL and Lion. Supported out of the box! My original post was for 10.4 I believe, it won't work for the new OSes, but it's native in 10.6/7 now.

Enzedder · Feb 19, 2012, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by angelique

I don't see it supported out of the box in my brand new Mac Mini. Can you show me? Tried the Exchange route and that doesn't work as others have found too.

There's a great app I've used in the App Store named 'Contacts Sync For Googlemail', it syncs both/either way with your address book and it works well. I don't think it runs automatically but it certainly takes any effort checking manually away.

jcarroll · Feb 16, 2013, 10:52 AM

Is appears from the current Google help page that "Address Book.app" isn't supported anymore; rather, Google supports syncing, via CardDAV, with "Contacts.app." When did Contacts replace Address Book? I don't know, but I'm running OS X 10.6.8, and it doesn't work for me.

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answ...answer=1366863

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Contacts

Use CardDAV to sync contacts on your Mac with your Google Contacts.

On your Mac, go to Applications > Contacts.
In the Contacts application, go to Contacts > Preferences > Accounts > +
In the window that pops up, enter the following:

Account type: CardDAV
Username: <Your username at your domain, for example: john@solarmora.com>
Password: <Your password>
Server address: google.com
You contacts will now start syncing from your Google account with your Mac. Any new contacts you make on your Mac will sync with your Google account, and any new contacts in your Google account will sync with your Mac.

BrianBaughn · Feb 16, 2013, 03:37 PM

Google dropped contacts syncing on previously un-synced Macs via the checkbox method at the end of January 2013.

CardDav syncing of Address Book with Google contacts doesn't work in Snow Leopard, for some reason.

NMF · Feb 16, 2013, 06:03 PM

Does Google Apps work like Gmail? Because I use this for Gmail and it's the best thing ever.

Jan 5, 2012, 08:55 AM	#26
7on Thread Starter macrumors 68040 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Fishman Island	For god's sake it's now in the AddressBook as of SL and Lion. Supported out of the box! My original post was for 10.4 I believe, it won't work for the new OSes, but it's native in 10.6/7 now. __________________ jonshipman.com
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Feb 16, 2013, 03:37 PM	#31
BrianBaughn macrumors 65816 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Baltimore, Maryland	Google dropped contacts syncing on previously un-synced Macs via the checkbox method at the end of January 2013. CardDav syncing of Address Book with Google contacts doesn't work in Snow Leopard, for some reason. __________________ Brian Baughn Baughn Consulting Baltimore, MD
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Feb 16, 2013, 06:03 PM	#32
NMF macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2011	Does Google Apps work like Gmail? Because I use this for Gmail and it's the best thing ever. __________________ MacBook Pro 13" (2012) \| Core i7 @ 2.9 GHz \| 256 GB Samsung 830 SSD \| 16 GB Corsair RAM Thunderbolt Display iPad mini 32 GB WiFi iPhone 5 32 GB Apple TV 3
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Kinobi macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2008	so did you get it to work? I have Google Apps account free version but I am getting password rejected; I tried everything I could with no results
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