Comments on: ABGMerge: Gmail-Address Book sync app updated

By: Steve L

Steve L — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:10:07 +0000

Thanks Benjamin. The mess was to a large degree my fault: I should have had used one of the exit strategies, and I should have asked for help.

I’ll have another crack at it.

By: Benjamin Harley

Benjamin Harley — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:57:43 +0000

to steve l. sorry you had to go through it by hand. it is very easy to clean up the phonetic names fields, you can use the email button on my webpage to ask for help. it you try it again - with 400 contacts, the script will be relatively slow - use the safe mode, and you’ll have the option of restoring (if it doesn’t complete for some reason), and verifying all the changes it makes, and when it is all over, run abgmerge again and it will clean up all the extraneous data.

By: Steve L

Steve L — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:29:58 +0000

” Address Book is such a good repository for address information, but if you donâ€™t have .mac - Gmail may be the best bet to get at that information when you are at work or away.”

Another way, which works well for me, is to have a PDA which you sync with your home and work computers.

Steve

By: Steve L

Steve L — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:26:34 +0000

Well, I didn’t use the Safe Mode and it mucked up my Address Kook.. er.. Book. Extra fields (phonetic first and last names) were inserted into each Address Book entry, with the email address for each being inserted into the ‘Phonetic Last Name’ field.

A savvy person could have performed some global corrective action, but I had to go through and correct each individual record (~400). (I also should have made a Back Up copy of Address Book before playing with ABGMerge).

Anyway, my Book is again nicely kooked instead of being toasted. :-)

By: Stephen Hryncewicz

Stephen Hryncewicz — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:21:47 +0000

“It has repackaged as an application, and features a â€˜Safe Modeâ€™ with the option to restore your Address Kook to its initial contents.”

Address Kook ? :)