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BEWARE! - Share one Address Book among multiple users
Authored by: anastas on Jun 02, '06 02:06:07PM
I tried something like this recently and I almost lost my entire address book (except for a month old backup that I had done previously).

I always wondered what would happen if two people were trying to write to the same file (without permissions) at the same time? That didn't exactly happen to me, but something similar happened. One day my local network connection got really slow and Address Book was taking forever to load so I forced quite it. BTW, this was only a couple weeks after setting up address book with a symbolic link as described in this hint to a networked computer. When I tried to reopen it everything was gone, not even the mac default address entries.

If you are going to attempt to implement this symbolic link (synch alternative) I would highly recommend to follow the backup suggestions described in this mac discussion that I posted, or you may lose all your contacts...

--> http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2336427#2336427

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