Missing “sync with google” on mac os 10.5.8 address book

If you want to sync your address book to google, you can do it directly from your address book.
some Leopard macs will not show this options and the following will fix it.

Open terminal
Copy and paste the following:

echo "\"{ Devices = { red-herring = { 'Family ID' = 10001; }; }; }\"" >>
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod.plist

quit/start your address book

  1. Worked perfectly. Fantastic!
    I don’t know why this option is normally hidden.
    I only discovered it’s existence when it appeared in my wifes User after she connected her iPad.

  2. Ah, spoke too soon. The option has now appeared in Address book, but it doesn’t work.
    Perhaps it only works when syncing an external device with iSync (eg an iPod/iPad)

  3. Rich – have a look at this KB http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627?viewlocale=en_US

    thanks for stopping by :) .

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