# GMail Contacts Sync Help (Multiple GMail Accounts)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-contacts-sync-help-multiple-gmail-accounts/486390>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 18, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-contacts-sync-help-multiple-gmail-accounts/486390 "2009-02-18T13:34:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-contacts-sync-help-multiple-gmail-accounts/486390/1 "2009-02-18T13:34:34Z")

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Does anyone know if it’s possible to sync contacts between two GMail accounts? I have a long-standing GMail account of my own, and we have one as a family. Our contacts change often and it’s tedious to export/import to stay updated. I haven’t been able to find a way to automatically sync the 2 accounts. A search turns up a Google Help page for a program called Google Contact Sync, which seems to be exactly what I need, but there is no associated program that I can find, just the support page.

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**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-contacts-sync-help-multiple-gmail-accounts/486390/2 "2009-02-18T15:29:33Z")

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According to the Google support group, you can _export_ the contacts list from one account as, say, a CSV file and then import it into the other, but the “Google Contact Sync” feature is for syncing your contacts list between another application, like Outlook or Thunderbird, and Gmail.