[Quagmire]

My home Mac is set up for multiple user accounts for my wife and I (fast user switching made this practical) and we share the same address book. I use iSynch to synch up between both accounts, as well as my work Mac. But shouldn't the "Make this my card" feature be user-specific? Is there any way to make that possible that each account remembers? Every time I synch it gets confused which card is mine, and I end up IM-ing with my wife who seems to share my name.

[thePurpleGiant]

The problem is, that when you Sync your address books, you're actually telling iSync that both users are yourself.

iSync is primarily used for one person to have two computers in sync. Not two people with similar data.

What you're telling it is that "I want my wife to have the same address book as me" - but in doing so, you are also telling it that in you're address book, "you" are "you" (not "her"!).

The only way around this would be to either:

1) Not use iSync. Give her a copy of all your contacts, and then when you update one in your address book, she would also have to update hers.

or

2) Get used to it!

[wataru]

If you're synching the same address book data, then it seems pretty obvious to me that "my card" will always be the same card. I don't know what you can do about this.

[Brass]

As a previous poster said, iSync is really for a single user, and therefore it's behaviour is correct.

To synchronise address books, I've been using Address-o-sync. But that's to synch between two computers running on the same subnet (uses rendezvous). I've no idea if it would work with two accounts on one computer. Let us know if you try it.

[Luca Rescigno]

You could create a new user called "Quagmire & Mrs. Quagmire" or something... it would have all your combined contact info. I don't know how well that would work but it might.

[Quagmire]

Thanks for the replies. I'll probably have to just stick it out and live with it. According to the Address-o-sync FAQ it doesn't work between users on one computer.

[Jim_MDP]

Back up the addy book then try this…

Keep the addy book file in, say, the public docs folder and alias it to each of your libraries.

See if you can each tell it to use a different 'my card'.

I haven't a clue if this might work, but you can be the guinea pig.

Oh… I wouldn't try having Address Book open in both accts at the same time.

[wataru]

Originally posted by Jim_MDP:
Back up the addy book then try this…

Keep the addy book file in, say, the public docs folder and alias it to each of your libraries.

See if you can each tell it to use a different 'my card'.

I haven't a clue if this might work, but you can be the guinea pig.

Oh… I wouldn't try having Address Book open in both accts at the same time.

You'll probably have to play with permissions to do this--both users need full access to the files. Also, if an alias doesn't work try a symbolic link.

[chabig]

You have a public Docs folder? Where?

/Users/Shared/Docs?

Just curious where you put it, because it's not a standard part of OS X.

Chris