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Sync Thunderbird and Address Book using Plaxo
Authored by: ocdinsomniac on Mar 16, '06 09:48:21AM

I've been trying this over the past couple days to get the address books on my home and work computers synced. So far it's worked quite well. It does true two-way sync, and although Plaxo's online service does not appear to offer group listings, the groups do, in fact, transfer to/from AddressBook. I'm impressed!

Now if I could only find such a thing for my bookmarks I'd be quite the happy camper.

-systemsboy



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Sync Thunderbird and Address Book using Plaxo
Authored by: tychay on Mar 16, '06 05:55:20PM

(I work at Plaxo, but not on the Mac client)

Actually the group information is available through Plaxo. Address Book Groups are synced in the Outlook field known as "Categories:" which is available online in the "Other Information" tab.

Because "Smart Groups" are saved searches, that information is not synced. Also some fields don't map correctly to fields in Outlook (Let's face it, Outlook has an archaic data model that's really bad), which means that they aren't fully supported yet in Plaxo. Hopefully in the near future we can add support for the more robust fields in Address Book and have true 100% synchronization.

I hope that this is a good start.



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Sync Thunderbird and Address Book using Plaxo
Authored by: bnj on Sep 09, '06 01:12:48PM
Hello,

About your comment about beeing able to sync bookmarks: Google offers a service for that if you use firefox. It works only with firefox but I don't mind because it is the only browser I use anyway. I also synchronizes other browser settings (not only the bookmarks). It is very nice. Check it out: http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/

Best regards!

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