Re: BBDB sync with MacOS Contacts

[Sriram Karra]

Pieter, 

I am the author of ASynK. Can you share what version you are using, and what errors you are seeing? I've not had much time to hack on ASynK recently, but BBDB Version 9 file format support was added to ASynK with this commit back in 2018 and also includes some test files as well. I don't see anything broken with the basic file format parsing for v9, so at best you are seeing a bug, which I am happy to look at. BTW, you could run the tests by doing 'cd ${asynk-dir}/test/gold && make bb'. Can you tell me what you are seeing?

-Karra

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 2:48 AM Pieter van Oostrum <pieter-l@vanoostrum.org> wrote:

Hi,

I want to synchronize my MacOS contacts with bbdb. I have done this in the past, but it doesn't work anymore. So I am looking for a new solution to this.

My previous setup was as follows: I have an app 'Contacts Sync for Google Gmail' on my MacBook, that syncs the MacOS Contacts with my Google Contacts. And then I had the ASynK program to sync the Google contacts with bbdb. The former works flawlessly, but the latter (ASynK) had a lot of problems, often ruining my .bbdb, but fortunately making backups first.

ASynK no longer works, first because I upgraded to a newer version of BBDB, which uses file format 9, whereas ASynk only works with file format 7, and secondly because the Python Google libraries for the sync have changed and ASynK is no longer compatible with them.

So now I am looking for a new way to do this. I really don't need the intermediate step with Google Contacts, as I don't use Gmail, so a direct sync between BBDB AND MACOS Contacts would be preferable, but if the only possibility is to use Google Contacts that is OK.

I haven't been able to find a solution. Maybe I should switch to another Emacs Contacts manager? Does anyone know how tp do it?
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