Carddav broken in 10.6.4 Address Book. Will it be fixed before 10.6.5 ?

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Carddav broken in 10.6.4 Address Book. Will it be fixed before 10.6.5 ?

The Carddav Yahoo is still broken and doesn't work on 10.6.4. Can't get synced with Yahoo. My settings are correct exactly as described in Yahoo help and in the post below. It's not Yahoo fault because Yahoo Carddav works with other applications, tested in Windows at least. I am wondering whether this is going to be fixed before 10.6.5. It's disappointing, I had expected this to be a no-brainer when I bought my first Mac few weeks months ago.

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11974279

Error message is: "Shared address book configuration error".

MBP 13, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 29, 2010 4:20 PM

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Oct 29, 2010 6:41 PM in response to polocanada

Have you inquired with Yahoo why it doesn't work with Mac?
Only they would know if they can fix their program before 10.6.5.

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Oct 30, 2010 11:02 AM in response to polocanada

I assumed there is one just one Carddav standard and if it works o Windows why not on Mac..

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Oct 30, 2010 7:07 PM in response to polocanada

They, "Carddav", have to write it to work with Mac 10.6.4.
And no, 10.6.5 will not fix it.

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Nov 5, 2010 4:46 AM in response to Donald Palmer

I came across a workaround for this. Now I can have multiple address books in Address Book on Mac. This won't give a full address book but at least ability to search for contacts which are stored on Yahoo, GMail, MSN within OSX Address Book.

1) Setup an account at www.memotoo.com
2) Link it with your email account address book
3) Follow the instructions on their site... which is...
3) Create new address book on Mac
4) Select LDAP type of account
5) Enter "ldap.memotoo.com" port 389, enter the [search based sting] (you find it on Memotoo website), username & password.
6) Now it's possible to search for contacts from multiple address books

Works pretty well.

LDAP is mostly used to enable "search as you type" functionality when entering new email addresses in emails. This is same functionality you find on Outlook, however LDAP similar as CardDad and Caldav are platform independent.

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Nov 11, 2010 11:35 PM in response to Donald Palmer

Just confirming that this doesn't work in 10.6.5. Following Yahoo!'s instructions, I can create the account and manage an initial sync (i.e. address book downloading the Yahoo contacts). But after that the connection is broken (address book by itself is changing the server address).

Interesting enough this all works well on iOS 4.2. So I guess Apple has to fix Mac OS X in that regard.

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polocanada Author

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Nov 28, 2010 11:38 AM in response to polocanada

It worked today at 7:00 AM. Then it stopped working after 3 hours. Now it's 2:00 PM and it started to work again.

Seems it's Yahoo's the "yahoodns" of the Carddav server is just busy. iPhone works fine with Carddav.

Also the Caldav function works perfect. You can even browse the Caldav directory with eTask on iPhone ( http://sites.google.com/site/dfaworks/etask)

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Nov 28, 2010 11:41 AM in response to polocanada

Forgot to mention, you can also setup Funabol with Memotoo which will sync with your main address book, but not with other additional addressbooks.

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Jan 31, 2011 6:57 PM in response to Ulrich Rossgoderer

It doesnt work in 10.6.6 either. I cant get even an initial sync from Yahoo to address book. Like yours, my iphone (4.2) syncs without problem.

I s Apple aware and dealing with this?

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