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I use Google Apps with my own domain. But I also have a regular Google account because many Google services are not available inside Google Apps (stuff like Picasa, Maps, Reader, Groups, Wave, and so on). Google uses an email address as login information, and I use the same one for both accounts -- my primary email address (I use different passwords).

Problem:
The Contacts are not in sync between my Google account and my Google Apps account. 

https://www.google.com/contacts
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https://www.google.com/contacts/a/<my-domain.here>

Question:
How can I automatically sync these two address books?

I've tried using Plaxo but failed because Plaxo won't let me create two sync points with the same login. Plaxo Support confirms this in an answer to my support request.

I know I can sync manually by exporting all from one and importing into the other, and the entries will even be intelligently merged -- that's what I do now, but I want to automate this.

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Google does not currently provide any way to sync a Google account with a Google Apps account.

Third-party sync website Plaxo can't currently handle multiple Google/Apps accounts if they have the same login ID.

Third-party sync website Soocial can only handle a single Gmail account, so that's no solution either.

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I'd be interested in other syncing services that I could test for this purpose! – torbengb Nov 28 at 10:52
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This might be what you are looking for:

How to Sync Google Apps to Gmail

I didn't read through the whole thing but it seems relevant to your problem, hope it helps :)

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Sorry, no. I saw that page too, but it states that Contacts is the one area that's not covered: "5. Sync contacts between Google Apps and Google Account: I believe the Google Contacts API may possess this ability but I do not know if it is currently available to everyone yet. To accomplish this you’ll either have to manually import and export contacts from each account or use a 3rd-party application like Soocial or Plaxo to sync contacts between Google Apps and your Google Account." – torbengb Nov 23 at 14:00
my apologies! Should have read through! – SevenT2 Nov 23 at 14:35
Ooh, heres an idea. Perhaps register another dummy account, sync your contacts to that, then back to your other account, seeing as you said that Plaxo didn't accept the same account, that should actually work. Bit of stuffing around, but much less than what you are currently doing at the moment once it is set up! :) – SevenT2 Nov 23 at 14:37
Seven, I'm not sure I get it. I would sync my account A to a new dummy account, then from the dummy to my account B? But wouldn't I then need to have three accounts in Plaxo, two of which still have the same login? Or should I sync using a different service? – torbengb Nov 24 at 7:11
Well, it was all speculation. I was thinking you sync from the Google Apps part of your account to the new account, then sync that back to the normal Google part of your account? Can you do that? So: Account A.Apps -> B -> Account A.Normal It works in theory. I don't know about in practice! – SevenT2 Nov 25 at 5:34
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I would do one of two things:

  1. Forward all my email from my apps account to my normal Gmail account.

  2. Export all your contacts in a CSV and re-import them into your apps account.

I would choose the former ;).

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1: This is not about the mails. Forwarding works. 2: as stated in my question, "[manual export is] what I do now, but I want to automate this." – torbengb Dec 13 at 12:14
Hmm, well, I think you're out of luck then, as Google doesn't allow accounts to sync up with one another. I realize it's not about the emails, but if you only need to check one account for your information, why keep two address books? – dlo Dec 13 at 13:40
Google Apps doesn't contain all Google services. Some of them rely on the non-Apps Gmail address book for contact information, for instance Maps, and Picasa. If I just purge my non-Apps address book, then I have no contacts in those non-Apps services. Hence the question and the need to sync my Apps address book to the non-Apps address book - because it's a nuisance when the details don't match up and another nuisance to export/import manually. – torbengb Dec 14 at 12:47
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Soocial now supports syncing multiple Google accounts.

http://blog.soocial.com/2009/12/30/sync-across-multiple-gmail-accounts/

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