Need iPhone Contacts to Overwrite Mac Address Book

[MotionMan]

I need my iPhone Contacts to overwrite my Mac Address Book (just on the next sync).

How do I do that?

MotionMan

 

[TheStu]

Alright, so you plug in the iPhone and in iTunes you have the option to sync your contacts. One of the radio buttons on that page (toward the bottom unless iTunes 10 moved it) is to dictate whether it merges, overwrites iPhone or overwrites desktop. Then you just hit apply. Once that sync is done, you could just change it back to merge, or turn off contact syncing and be done with it.

I did the same thing on my Hack, I wanted to copy my address book from my phone over.

 

[MotionMan]

Alright, so you plug in the iPhone and in iTunes you have the option to sync your contacts. One of the radio buttons on that page (toward the bottom unless iTunes 10 moved it) is to dictate whether it merges, overwrites iPhone or overwrites desktop. Then you just hit apply. Once that sync is done, you could just change it back to merge, or turn off contact syncing and be done with it.

I did the same thing on my Hack, I wanted to copy my address book from my phone over.

Not seeing it. The only option I see, at the bottom, under advanced, is to have the computer overwrite the iPhone.

MotionMan

 

[TheStu]

Not seeing it. The only option I see, at the bottom, under advanced, is to have the computer overwrite the iPhone.

MotionMan

If you uncheck that, and then delete everything in your Mac's address book, it will copy it all over. At least, it should.

 

[MotionMan]

If you uncheck that, and then delete everything in your Mac's address book, it will copy it all over. At least, it should.

I am afraid that would result in the iPhone contact being erased (I would assume that a contact erased from the computer would be erased from the iPhone).

MotionMan

 

[TheStu]

I am afraid that would result in the iPhone contact being erased (I would assume that a contact erased from the computer would be erased from the iPhone).

MotionMan

If you have the iPhone connected when you do erase the contacts, and then hit apply in iTunes to have it copy the iPhone address book over, then it shouldn't touch the iPhone.

 

[MotionMan]

If you have the iPhone connected when you do erase the contacts, and then hit apply in iTunes to have it copy the iPhone address book over, then it shouldn't touch the iPhone.

We shall see...

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

Looks like that worked.

Thanks.

MotionMan