Hello Alan >So I am totally frustrated trying to sync my Powermail addr book to >Apple's addr book. > >Before I turned on synching I had a little over 1,000 addresses in each >addr book with no real rhyme or reason connecting them. After synching I >got a group in my address book called "Apple Address Book Contacts" with >134 addresses. Then things started getting weird. Addresses that I had in >my address book started disappearing. After about 20 synchs (I set it to >sync when Powermail comes to the front) I suddenly had 1913 addresses in >my Apple Address book. > >I figured I should set one to be "the" address book, so I set Powermail >to read from Apple's address book but not write to it. Now when I add >entries to groups in the Apple Address book, no changes propagate to the >Power Mail Address book. I have a group with 9 entries in Apple's Address >Book and only 3 in Powermail's. I have two groups in Powermail's address >book called "Apple Address Book Contacts" one with 140 entries and one >with 17.
I never trust a computer program to automatically synch lists/databases/ address books etc intelligently - they are fast and accurate but bone stupid. So this doesn't answer your question directly but my comments may not be entirely irrelevant. Apple's Address Book doesn't even synch within itself. A few months ago I exported a list of the addresses in my Apple AB to print out and take with me on my travels. I was surprised to see that all the addresses were duplicated or triplicated and many foreign addresses had been duplicated with US address formats. I have several Groups of addresses (business, private etc). Previously, when I added a new address or updated an existing one, I made the change to the address listed in the Group. I assumed that AB would be intelligent enough to update the original address in the All group. Not so! It took me several hours over several days to go through all the addresses in my All group, select the up-to-date ones and delete the duplicates. Of course, deleting an address from the All group also deleted it from the individual group. So my individual groups are probably still messed up and I haven't used them since. I shudder to think what I would have ended up with if I had also asked AB and PM to synch with each other. -- Frank Mitchell, Scottsdale, Arizona
