Here is my collection of Apple Address Book hints, how-to's and personal notes. CategoryApplications CategoryMacOsx CategoryApplescript
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- Entourage uses a lot of nonstandard tags in their contacts database. Importing those contacts to Address Book will result in most of your data ending up in the "Notes" field of Address Book. You may need to go through all your contacts and fix those errors.
To synchonizing address books on different computers just copy the folder ~/Library/Application\Support/AddressBook/ Whichever is newer you can just drag to the other machine in the same folder. Be sure to quit Address book on the receiving machine first. There are more sophisticated solutions but the drag-and-drop is simplest for beginners.
- For starters, any Microsoft software sucks. Entourage is slow to launch, uses loads of processor power, suffers from severe feature bloat and costs a pile of money. Address Book/Mail is fast, well integrated, very Applescriptable and free. I was an Entourage user for years, when I finally switched. I had enough of Entourage's glitches and resource hogging. Never regretted the change. My only real complaint is that Entourage combines mail and Usenet, and is very convenient. There is no Mac mail/Usenet app that is as good as Entourage (in my opinion).
- Gmail sends you to "Recent Contacts" first, you have to specify "All Contacts" to get them all. It works for me though, I can click on the person's name and see all the info for them.
- When Applescripting Address Book the most likely culprit is unicode characters. Unicode looks exactly like normal characters but there is a non-printing character in there too. Address Book also has some odd behavior when Applescripts hit Unicode characters. Also, the system for standardizing phone numbers is a little disorienting.