Q: How to transfer Adressbook-Account Settings from 10.8.5 to 10.11.6
I'm syncing my Adressbook via a Carddav and it has worked well for several years now. But since MacOS 10.11. I can't sync my contacts to my desktop computer anymore.
On my laptop, which still runs on Snow Leopard (10.8.5), everything works fine.
Now the carddav-dialouge in El Capitan seems a bit totally broken. Especially server paths are somewhat ignored not taken into account. If you look at the account settings later there is always something missing/wrong. The broken dialogue is there sind El Capitans first beta and I'm not hoping anymore, that apple will fix it in 10.12.
Anyways: I thought, maybe I just copy the folder ~/library/Application Support/AdressBook from my old computer to the new one and I'm done. But I was wrong. When I open contacts and have a look in the settings nothing has changed. Even, if I have deleted the previous content in the AdressBook Folder.
iPhone and iPad just work fine as it should (several iOS-Versions - never had any problems).
I know there is iCloud, I know there is Google and all the other options in the creating accounts-dialogue, but I want my private information hosted on my private server environment.
What am I missing here?
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Sep 20, 2016 10:02 AM