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Amnesia10
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I am looking for a way to sync my address books across a number of machines. I have mobile me and drop box if that helps. Any suggestions? Thanks
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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timark_uk
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Then use it! (8+p Sys. Prefs. on the Mac > MobileMe > Select address Book > Sync. Mark
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Amnesia10
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I am doing that now. I wondered if there was a better way.
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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timark_uk
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What's so bad about this way that you need/want a better way? Mark
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forquare1
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I sync Address Books using ChronoSync, I just set it to sync the "~/Library/Application Support/Address Book" directory...Could be done using rsync or any other file sync applications...
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forquare1
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I guess you could move your Address Book folder to Dropbox and have a shortcut to it...Not sure if OS X would like that though...
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oceanicitl
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You need a mobile me account? I need to do mine as it's duplicating things between work and personal macs. Might have a look at that _________________Still the official cheeky one 
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timark_uk
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He has one. He says so in the OP. Mark
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Amnesia10
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Well it has all gone well and they are now synced across my machines. I am regularly getting sync status updates on two of the machines. The third does it without any notifications.
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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ProfessorF
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If you don't have a Mobile Me account, any other thoughts on moving the Address Book from an old machine to, say, a nice new iMac?
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timark_uk
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Amnesia10
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If you have a completely new machine use the firewire to copy across any data from the old machine. I did that with this one initially. Though keeping them synced was the new problem. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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ProfessorF
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Ah, right, no. Won't. I ventured down this path briefly last night. Wanted to bring over my Mail settings and the like, synced the old account to this one and then spent over an hour + wondering why the mouse was befuddled. Ended up reinstalling OS X, doing updates, and then discovered it was a rogue .kext. New machine, new account, fresh installs, and I'm trying to keep it that way.
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Amnesia10
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That I can understand. I suppose you could copy it manually, and then do all the hard work yourself. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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timark_uk
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Did you both miss my post above? (8+/
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