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yes, surprisingly flaky
Authored by: mclbruce on Sat, May 31 2008 at 8:41AM PDT

I have noticed other oddities with the Google Contacts - Address Book sync. Middle names in Address book are tough for Google Contacts to handle. If you have a first name with spaces in it, such as Mary Ann, that can cause problems with Google Contacts as well. Most of these problems are mentioned in Google's FAQ, but still...

yes, surprisingly flaky
Authored by: BrentT on Mon, Jun 2 2008 at 8:18AM PDT

After enabling GMail sync in Address Book the addresses synced fine. I had deleted all contacts first. Afterwards I kept getting errors on my desktop that Contact syncing failed because another computer was accessing the sync. I turned off GMail sync in Address Book and the error messages went away.