Humblest apologies, Ronni, I misread your email! Nevertheless /Home/
Library/Preferences on Tiger does not have the
com.apple.addresbook.adb.plist file on either machine.
I like the method with exporting the vCard groups, really neat.
Though I have a lot of groups on the master the other two machines
need only two or three.
A great solution as always, many thanks
Severin
On 04/11/2009, at 2:39 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
I never said they were in Application Support/AddressBook Severin.
You need the /Home/Library/Applications Support/AddressBook/ folder.
And these two files from the /Home/Library/Preferences folder:
com.apple.addressbook.plist
com.apple.addresbook.adb.plist
The "com.apple.addresbook.adb.plist" should be immediately above the
"com.apple.addressbook.plist".
I am taken it as a "given" that you have "current back ups" of both
the Leopard & The Tiger Address Books before attempting any of this.
Did you have a look at "Address Book Server" on the link I gave
before?
Going back to your way of exporting the G5 Address Book as vCards. I
searched through my Documents Folder & found how I did this a long
time ago.
After exporting all my Groups as vCards.
vCard import group:
You can import group Vcards, and have them grouped properly!
The trick is that you'll need to create those groups in Address Book
first:
1) Create a new group. Select it (it should be blank, so you'll see
no contacts).
2) Drag your group Vcard into the window.
NB: Before you do any of this, always make a backup of your Address
Book (the function is built into the program) in case you make a
mistake, as well as after you make any change (add, delete, make
notes, etc).
Whatever is the easiest way for you to achieve what you want, is
what we are looking for ;-)
I use MobileMe so don't have these issues.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 04/11/2009, at 2:03 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Following on your earlier suggestion, the two files that you list
are in Preferences, not Application Support/Address Book on the G5
Leopard. The two Tigers only have the former and no sign
of.....adb.plist
I am loath to proceed!
Severin
On 04/11/2009, at 1:22 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 04/11/2009, at 12:48 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 04/11/2009, at 12:04 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
We have three computers, one master (G5 Leopard) and two others
(G3iMac Tiger and Intel Macbook Tiger). Periodically I update
the other two by exporting from the G5 Address Book as vCards
and then importing into the other two over my LAN. This is fine
except that the information for Groups is not updated. Is it
possible to update Groups as well?
Hi Severin,
If you don't have MobileMe.
You need the /Home/Library/Applications Support/AddressBook/
folder and these two files from the /Home/Library/Preferences
folder:
com.apple.addressbook.plist
com.apple.addresbook.adb.plist
Copy these to the respective locations on the machines you wish
to have the most current versions. You cannot "merge" the data.
You might be able to use a Backup Software to sync Address Book
files to all your computers.
I don't know if "fruux" will accomplish what are wanting to do.
"fruux 0.9.6.4
Sync your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks, Bookmarks between Macs.
fruux is a lightweight and convenient system preference pane,
that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks, Bookmarks and
Notes between different Macs. fruux supports sync conflict
resolution which will help you when you changed a record on more
than one machine. fruux is still in beta, please backup your data!"
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28750>
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
Hi again Severin,
I just had another look at "Address Book Server". This might be
the way for you to go.
"With Address Book Server you can synchronise your Address Book
with others on the same network as well as over the internet.
Contacts are synchronised with your own instance of Address Book
Server.
Address Book Server comes in two parts a server and a client. The
server should be installed on a centrally accessible Mac. The
client goes on every Mac, whose Address Book you would like to
synchronise."
Free 5 User License keys until end of November'09
<http://www.addressbookserver.com/projects/abs/index.jsp>
Cheers,
Ronni
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
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