Comments on: Gmail contact – Apple Address Book sync stinks

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:24:14 +0000

I am using spanning sync with gmail and my mac and blackberry. Calendar works fine but address book contacts will not upload to gmail and therefore to blackberry. Help?

By: Howard

Howard — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:17:21 +0000

Ok, so now Google accepts an export directly from Apple Address book via vCard/vcd file.
I STILL get a message that it wants to add >400 and change 1200 after clearing all my contacts, and uploading a fresh export from my address book.

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:43:09 +0000

Ah, EPC, that’s why the A to G utility saves out of Apple Address book as only “Name” and not “First” and “last” names.
However, with the new Google sync for outlook – the names come back to outlook as “full name” with no concept of First and Last name. So your Outlook contacts are all alphabetical by FIRST name. That stinks.

By: @epc

@epc — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:29:02 +0000

I tried it briefly but went back to Spanning Sync (which I was using for calendars).
Part of the problem is with Google Contacts: they have no concept of first/last name. There’s only one field for name. There’s also some other oddities on the Google Contacts side which Spanning Sync has worked around.

By: Tristan Louis

Tristan Louis — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:44:12 +0000

That’s why I still use spanning sync… seems to do the trick.