Syncing to Google Acct vs Google Apps for your domain Acct

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Hey folks, I'm sure I'm not the only one who ran into this problem, but googling didn't yield anything fruitful.

I have a google account which is my e-mail address from google apps for your domain. I have a google account for legacy reasons as some google services (wave, voice, analytics) do not recognize google apps for your domain accounts and I wanted to keep everything under same e-mail.

So the problem is that my Mac address book synchronizes to the google account and the Android pulls data from the google apps for your domain account.

Any ideas how to force Mac to sync to a google apps for your domain account or how to force Android to sync with the simple google account?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by stangri

Hey folks, I'm sure I'm not the only one who ran into this problem, but googling didn't yield anything fruitful.

I have a google account which is my e-mail address from google apps for your domain. I have a google account for legacy reasons as some google services (wave, voice, analytics) do not recognize google apps for your domain accounts and I wanted to keep everything under same e-mail.

So the problem is that my Mac address book synchronizes to the google account and the Android pulls data from the google apps for your domain account.

Any ideas how to force Mac to sync to a google apps for your domain account or how to force Android to sync with the simple google account?

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by beatryder

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Originally Posted by stangri

Hey folks, I'm sure I'm not the only one who ran into this problem, but googling didn't yield anything fruitful.

Oh, yeah, FU, my question had nothing to do with Apple Mail!

Originally Posted by stangri

Any ideas how to force Mac to sync to a google apps for your domain account or how to force Android to sync with the simple google account?

Don't use the same password for both accounts. Then you can choose which account by which password.

Originally Posted by lakerat

Don't use the same password for both accounts. Then you can choose which account by which password.

Thanks! I feel dumb having not figured that on my own. Have you tried that and did it work for you? I'm afraid I'd be getting authorization errors instead.

Originally Posted by stangri

So the problem is that my Mac address book synchronizes to the google account and the Android pulls data from the google apps for your domain account.

Any ideas how to force Mac to sync to a google apps for your domain account

Go into the preferences in Address Book on your Mac.

Preferences: Accounts: Account Information: Synchronize with Google: Configure.

Where it says Google Account, put in your Google Apps account. Include the domain name of your google apps account. This works for me on Snow Leopard with no problems.

Originally Posted by brucemcl

Go into the preferences in Address Book on your Mac.

I wish people would read my post thoroughly before replying:

Originally Posted by stangri

I have a google account which is my e-mail address from google apps for your domain.

So the problem is not that I had no idea how to set up syncing, the problem is that there's no way to indicate which account I want to sync if the account name and password are the same for google apps account and regular google account.

I think lakerat's suggestion would work tho -- didn't want to test it as I'm afraid to mess things up -- my mac started syncing to google apps account instead of the regular google account couple of hours after I posted original message.