SyncMate - Contacts

"Contacts" plugin lets you synchronize Address Book on your Mac with your Google Contacts, Contacts at your Windows Mobile device, Nokia S40, and with other Macs' Address Books. Moreover, you can sync Address Book on your Mac either with built-in Windows Address Book (WinXP) and Windows Contacts (Vista and Win7) or with Microsoft Office Outlook Contacts, the latter being the default direction. Synchronization with Sony PSP is also available (one direction only). If there is Online Backup connection available in the list, you can backup your Address Book contacts there.


Please, read the following instructions carefully to start the synchronization correctly:

1. Synchronization can be done in three directions:

Note, that Address Book synchronization with Sony PSP is performed in one direction only (from Mac to Sony PSP).
2. Choose the order surnames and names will be displayed in:

3. If you tick "Sync only contacts with phone numbers" checkbox, contacts without phone numbers will not be synchronized.
4. Now you can choose what contacts to sync:

  • "Sync all groups" will sync all categories of contacts with the remote side.
  • "Sync all contacts to this group" will sync all contacts to the specified folder.
  • "Sync only selected groups" will sync only the selected categories of contacts.

3. You can choose a folder on your Mac where all contacts will be copied from the device during the synchronization process.
4. If you want to delete contacts on your Mac or at the remote side, or both, click "Delete all contacts" button.

5. If you want to delete your previous synchronization history, please, click "Reset history" button.
6. Finally, click "Sync now" button to start the synchronization process.


Notes:

  • The order of contacts display will be set only when synchronizing new contacts, whereas existing contacts will stay without changes. To change the display order of all contacts, set the required synchronization direction (e.g. Mac --> Windows Mobile device), delete all contacts on your device, set the required order of contacts display and, finally, synchronize.
  • If you are using Microsoft Entourage, the following settings should be switched on to synchronize them with Mac analogues: Calendar, Address Book and Notes. Read how to activate them in this section.
  • If you are syncing Address Book on your Mac with Address Book on Windows XP or 2000, only the contacts, located in "Main Identity's Contacts" folder on your Windows PC, will be synced with Address Book on your Mac. Contacts from "Shared Contacts" folder won't be synced.

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