I just saw this reply, so sorry for the delay. I relied on native OS X CardDAV and CalDAV syncing. It's the way Google is going with all its products. I did create a "backup" of contacts in Dropbox using an Automator script that runs every day. It gives me multiple versions if I need to go back as well as an archive.
I'm not going to go through a complete walkthrough, but here's what my Workflow looks like. Automator Selection: <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_1JfxtQaJa8/UUtmjiRr2TI/AAAAAAAAx00/Z0EGanl1UDQ/s1600/Export_Contacts_Automator_Workflow_1.png> Here are the steps to the Workflow: <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xPEHIs9wN9U/UUtm7qeLH-I/AAAAAAAAx08/1mr9cpVK8vA/s1600/Export_Contacts_Automator_Workflow_2.png> I created a local calendar called Automator, and setup an appointment to run every day. If you want more information than that, let me know, and I'll see about putting together something more helpful. What I did NOT do was use both iCloud and Google to sync. All sync still goes through Google. Using iCloud and Google (CardDAV) to sync is just asking for trouble. On Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:24:01 PM UTC-5, Conrad wrote: > > Well, things went pretty smoothly in my transition. "Contacts Sync for > Google Mail" had to resolve a few differences between my OS X Address Book > and gmail contacts, but no big problems. On the iCal side, I just turned > off viewing my local cals in iCal, so only the Google calendars would > appear (I did not need to do anything with delegates - all the calendars I > use "just worked"). I use iCal Reminders, which are all in my "Main" local > calendar. I had to delete a small number of calendar events in the future > on my local Main calendar, so they would not be duplicated with my Main > Google calendar when viewing both in iCal. And I changed my default iCal > calendar to my Main Google calendar. Sorry to see you go, SpanningSync... > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
