What about exporting the addresses from one book as vcards and importing said cards into the other user's address book? Not so simple as just switching to & fro one address book between two different users, but at least both users would have access to the same info (provided you export & import each time you add a name to the address book)...Cathy
> ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of > Jim/Marcia Bennett > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:48 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Sharing Entourage Address Book > [heur][bcc][faked-from] > > Jerry, thanks for the lead. I scanned the 14-page list of scripts for > Entourage, but only found one that seemed it might do what I need. I > downloaded it, but the four and a half page Read Me instructions totally > overwhelmed my ability to comprehend, and scared me off. > > Also it did not mention the exact task I'm trying to accomplish. It dealt > with sharing an Address Book between users on different computers, and > between different Identities within the same user account, but no mention > of > sharing between two separate user accounts on the same computer. > > Jim > > > > From: Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> > > Reply-To: "macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu" > > <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > > Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:39:29 -0500 > > To: "macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu" > <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Sharing Entourage Address Book > > > > Would one of these scripts help? > > > > http://www.scriptbuilders.net/?search=Sync+Entourage-Address+Book > > > > Jerry > > > > On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Jim/Marcia Bennett wrote: > > > >> I am trying to figure out how (or if) I can share an Entourage > >> Address Book > >> between two user accounts in OS X. My wife and I have all our > >> contacts in > >> one user account, but all our photos (in iPhoto 4) are in another user > >> account (not a good way to set it up I now know). We want to link > >> the two to > >> take advantage of iPhoto's insanely easy way to email photos to > >> friends and > >> family. I know there's some way to share an iPhoto libray across user > >> accounts, but I was hoping it would be easier to share the Address > >> Book. So > >> far the Missing Manual, Mactopia, Office 2004 Help, etc. have > >> provided no > >> help. Has anyone else wrestled with this one? > >> > >> We are running Office 2004 Mac on a Power Mac G4 with OS X 10.3.9 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > >> | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > >> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > ----------------------------------- > > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure > > if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051212/89b9ecd7/attachment.html
