Comments on: Keep Your Address Book in Sync with Dropbox (Mac OS X)

By: LZS

LZS — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:00:43 +0000

Be careful, as well, if you are syncing the Address Book with any secondary sites or hardware — for example, with an iPhone. Such syncing can lead to problems, as I’ve had when updating my iPhone software. Be sure to create a backup copy of your Address Book database before syncing or making changes to your iPhone.

By: LZS

LZS — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:16:07 +0000

The solution described here works fine for sharing an Address Book database, but other problems seem to occur as unintended consequences of moving the database to Dropbox. The Apple Mail app, which relies on the Address Book database, gets confused and automatic email address completion seems to have become unreliable. Are others having this problem?

By: Everett - TipsFor.us

Everett - TipsFor.us — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:17:49 +0000

Looks like you’re tying a capital i (as in island)… you should use a lowercase L (as in Lima). The command is “ln” as in Lima November.

By: Nwora Fairley

Nwora Fairley — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:24:51 +0000

WHen I put in the command line I keep getting -bash: In: command not found

nwora-fairleys-mac-pro:~ nwora$ In -s ~/Dropbox/AddressBook/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook
-bash: In: command not found
nwora-fairleys-mac-pro:~ nwora$

What am I doing wrong?

By: Graham Parker

Graham Parker — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:05:08 +0000

I think I have messed up somewhere. First I had only 2 macs and everything worked ok for a few months. Then I added another mac and now when I go to my address book on my First mac there are no contacts. I don’t know what I have done wrong. Is there a way to return to the apple default and start again if ofcourse I can use 3 macs.
Thank you for your time

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:15:42 +0000

How cool is this

Thanks

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:49:52 +0000

This works great. I have a desktop and a laptop synced which means my ipod that uses the laptop for syncing is up to date too. Excellent tip. Thanks!

By: Guy Incognito

Guy Incognito — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:58:11 +0000

This is great… but it won’t help you sync calendars and contacts to your iPhone/iPod/iPad… unless there is some App Store app or hack I don’t know about.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:36:52 +0000

This post is one year old but anyway…IMHO, the best and safest way is to do as recommended by fracai: leave all your application folders in your ~/Library and create symlinks to DropBox. For example:

ln -s ~/Library/Application\ Support/MacJournal ~/Dropbox/MacJournal

I did that for MJ, Things (the entire “Cultured Code” folder), and a couple of folders in my home folder and, up until now (1 month), it’s been working perfectly.

Again: http://wiki.getdropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders

All the best,

Jack

By: B Simon

B Simon — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:41:53 +0000

This worked perfectly for me, thanks so much!