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Address Book - Google syncing without iPod touch or iPhone
Did last night's news of 10.5.3 boasting Google contact syncing with iPhone and iPod touch owners get you down? Well, LifeHacker hopes to lift your spirits as they tell you how to enable Google syncing in Address Book.app without ever syncing an iPhone or iPod touch. The process requires you to edit some .plist files within Address Book.app. LifeHacker notes that the .plist entry only occurs when you sync some type of iPod first. So, you will need to do at least one sync for the entry to show up. Some of the comments seem to suggest that the .plist entry will change back to the original value once you sync an iPod a couple times. Even still, this is a cool hack.
[via LifeHacker]
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Jeff Nichols said 7:39AM on 5-29-2008
Of course, if you're not into hacking your system, Syncman ( http://wateree.net/syncman/ ) will synchronize Address Book with Gmail (or Google Apps) regardless of whether you have an iPhone/iPod Touch or not. Another distinguishing feature is that Syncman will show you what's going to change before any changes are made.
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LD said 10:03AM on 5-29-2008
I still don't get the benefit really. I mean, if I could sync a chosen set of contacts that would be great. But it syncs everyone I've ever emailed or gotten and email from in Google. Luckily I backed up my address book before destroying it with this "feature"
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Jeby said 10:42AM on 5-29-2008
Is it possible to edit plist file from Terminal, with "defaults write"? So I can do a script to backup the plist and enable the Google Sync
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Franklin said 2:45AM on 5-31-2008
This guide is helpful for anyone having trouble with plist changes being overwritten,
http://www.zaphu.com/2008/05/29/how-to-enable-mac-address-book-syncing-with-googles-gmail-contacts-without-an-iphone-or-mac/
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