Address Book Merge results in *Crash*

My goal is to 1) eliminate all duplicates in my Address Book and 2) sync the fixed address book across all devices via iCloud.
In 10.7.2 I select "Look for duplicates" and the Address book finds like 8000 dupes.  I select MERGE. It starts to merge...but then Crashes.
What should I do?

Peter, that is not a solution -- try selecting the same contact again from spotlight and you'll get the same "Import" dialog box, asking you what you want to do. 
The expected behavior from Address Book is to open the existing contact.
No other application does this from Spotlight that I'm aware of, and after 7 years of OS X, this is still very, very annoying.
I wish there were a fix -- I'm activley looking and will report back.

Similar Messages

  • Can't import backed up address book after hard drive crash

    I had a hard drive crash that sent my G5 into the shop. In the mean time I used my laptop and added info to address book, then transferred that info onto the new hard drive on the G5 when I got it back from the shop. So now I have a current address book and an older backed up copy on another drive. If I try to import the backed up info in address book, it tells me it will overwrite the current version. I want to keep the addresses that I added while my Mac was in the shop and ADD (not overwrite) the addresses from the backed-up copy. How can I do this? Thanks so much!
    Dan

    Opening a backup will always overwrite the existing data. I'll try to explain my solution better:
    You have your Address Book data and your backup. You want to combine them, but Address Book can only use one or the other. Combining them implies that you'll use an export-and-reimport sequence.
    To export your existing data, select the All group. Go to the names column and select them all with the Cmd-A shortcut. Drag that column to the desktop to make a vCard that contains all of your contacts.
    Now the copy of your current address data is on your desktop, so the copy in the Address Book application can be overwritten. Read in the backup to bring the backup contacts into Address Book. The other collection of your contacts is the vCard on your desktop, so drag that in and it will be imported without overwriting the existing data (but it will be merged in if there are duplicate cards).

  • Address Book: Merging contacts drops information

    Since some time my address book app shows a weird behavior: When I merge two contacts information is dropped. If one entry had the mobile number and the other the work phone the merged result only shows the work phone but not the mobile number. Also addresses are lost this way. Anything I can reset?

    I finally found out a workaround:
    I copied all VCF to a folder on the Dashboard, deleted all contact from the Address Book and imported them again. So now I can at least use the "first name" and "last name" field. But I expect merged contacts in the future to not work properly either.
    So my question is not really answered I think.

  • Custom fields in address book merged in pages document

    I viewed this Paragraph below from the following link on the Apple Site
    http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/iwork/sara.html
    As an administrative tool, she says, “All the documents we create with Pages — contracts, correspondence, receipts — are set up with data fields for the customer information I keep in my Address Book.
    The drag-and-drop ease of Pages’ Mail Merge is just huge for us. Not only names and contacts, but wedding dates, locations, and the details of the service package they’ve ordered. So I can just drag the contact over any document, and it automatically populates the fields with the client’s information. This ensures that all our crucial customer information stays up to date and in one place, and we never have to duplicate work when we create documentation.
    __ I cant find out how to do this as all the forums say this is not possible. I have contacted the person but do not have a response from them as yet. I have tried to do this but it wont populate the fields into the pages document..hmmmmm
    Can this be done as described

    Broker1972 wrote:
    Sorry! I reposted because it wasn't answered.
    Does Apple post this stuff on their site that the program cant do?
    Did you check out the link? Did I read the article wrong? Can we advise them of this?
    It seems that you don't understand what this forum is.
    Here we are users trying to help other users.
    The terms os use ask everybody to search in the existing thread before asking a question.
    It seems that you didn't do that because searching in
    "more options"
    "iWork '08"
    with the keyword "Addressbook"
    gave some threads in which I peeked:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6559156
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6374991
    So, as you may see, I checked the links, I knew what was written in them.
    There is no false advertising or misleading here because the contents of these forums is not written by Apple's employees, just by users as you are.
    So, I repeat: you reposted when the response was already available:
    _iWork components are unable to import custom fields from AddressBook._
    Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 15 février 2008 16:30:55)

  • Spotlight search for Address Book contact results in import query?

    This bug is happening frequently lately, wheby I perform a Spotlight seach for a contact that is in my Address Book, and then when I select the contact in the search results, Address Book is selected and the app asks me "Are you sure you want to import 1 card?"
    Anybody ever see this problem or how to resolve it?
    Thanks.

    Peter, that is not a solution -- try selecting the same contact again from spotlight and you'll get the same "Import" dialog box, asking you what you want to do. 
    The expected behavior from Address Book is to open the existing contact.
    No other application does this from Spotlight that I'm aware of, and after 7 years of OS X, this is still very, very annoying.
    I wish there were a fix -- I'm activley looking and will report back.

  • Address Book - Merging w/ Word

    Hey There Knowledgable Apple Friends!
    I am trying to figure out if it is possible to merge the information that I have in address book into a word document. For example, I do bookings for artists and send them to colleges. I already have the colleges information in my address book, and I don't want to copy and paste it all into the word document. Does anyone know if it's possible to merge these?
    Thanks so much!
    Bjork

    You have three options:
    1. Entourage Option (the least easy):
    Make sure your contacts in AddressBook and in Entourage are synchronized (you need to update entourage to its latest version). Create a mailmerge category in it, and add your contacts one by one to this category. Entourage is really bad at this, as you can only search by Name or Company and not by Country or City (so you are out of luck if you want to mail everyone in a given city!).
    Move into Word and do your mailmerge. Unlike the equivalent on the PC, you can't just select a few contacts, it will use all of the contacts you have available. Your best option is to mailmerge only the contact in the mailmerge category you previously defined.
    2. Buy iWork and do the mailmerge from iWork. This is just as easy, but AddressBook is so stupid that it will not allow you to display per country, so again create a 'mailmerge' group, and add your contacts one by one to that Group.
    3. Buy Parrallel, install Windows and Office and do it from Outlook who can display sory per country or per city. You do not need to create an additional mailmerge group, you will then work from Word.
    Sadly, Apple did not put much thought into its AddressBook when using in the context of a commercial application. On the other hand, Microsoft did something nice but with too many shortcomings.
    Good luck to you.

  • Pages and Address book Merge

    Hi
    I have a simple pages doc with basic merge fields for contact and address details. It all works fine when dragging and dropping address cards from address book when those details are located "on my mac" however the merge fields don't recognise the info when I drag and drop a card from a contact stored in either my hosted exchange address book or my shared cardDAV address book.
    When I drag a card from a contact to my pages doc the information reverts back to the merge codes if that contact is being dragged from an address book other than the one located on my mac.
    Can anyone shed any light on if this is possible?
    Thanks

    According to Apple:
    http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/addressbook-server.html
    This is all supposed to just work.
    If you find that it isn't:
    +Menu > Pages > Provide Pages Feedback+
    Also as Snow Leopard is a recent install you are entitled to Apple's support. Contact them and see what they can offer.
    I don't know what country you are in but search for the local phone number starting here:
    http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
    I highly recommend getting AppleCare with your computer as this also offers software support for 3 years and in my experience has been well worth the money.
    Peter

  • Manager Address Book Synchronizer 5.0 crash

    Everytime I run the synchronizer in crash on Windows 7.  I disable the firewall.  Why does it crash?

    Hi Tho Vo,
    Unfortunately Address Book Synchronizer doesn't work for Win7 only WinXP.
    Some month ago I opened a case to Cisco TAC about this issue, the answer was that for Win7 is not supported. I asked when will be able a new version but they told me at that moment they weren't developing a new version for Win7 .
    Please remember to rate useful posts clicking on the stars below.
    Favor calificar todos las respuestas útiles.
    LinkedIn Profile: do.linkedin.com/in/leosalcie

  • Address Book "Merge Cards" is losing unique information

    The Merge Cards function has stopped working. Instead of combining all the info on two cards, it preserves only some of it. I can't see how it selects which info it preserves, but it is certainly not all that it should preserve. What can I do to restore the old functionality?

    I too am experiencing frustrating difficulties with Apple Address Book.
    I am trying to merge my Gmail contacts with my Address Book contacts (and then with an export via Yahoo Address Book of my Facebook contacts).
    The problem is that in Gmail I keep everyone's old email addresses on their contact card to make it easier to find old emails from the same person... you know when someone has moved from job to job.
    I name these in Gmail as "Old" and often there are up to 5-6 emails.. some "Home", some "Work" and some my custom "Old".
    When I import the Apple VCF export from Gmail into Apple Address Book it tells me there are duplicates. I click on review duplicates. A whole lot of information is not being preserved when the two cards are being "merged".... it just deletes stuff randomly :X
    Any assistance as to how to get around this would be appreciated!
    Cheers.

  • Address book merges

    Has anybody ever succeeded in merging more than one telephone number in one letterhead (or similar)? If I try to merge work phone and mobile phone into a letter head (and yes both fields are filled in the Address Book card) I either get the work phone number twice, or I get work phone number and the field name (Mobile phone) in the second position. Any suggestions?

    This is the closest thing I have foudn for this so far. Maybe someone else has a better solution.
    OSX hints website
    Hope this is what your talking about,
    Jason

  • Pages and Address Book Merges

    I am thinking of getting this program but what i need is the ability to merge information from my address book and merge it with letters and envelopes in i work 05. Does anyone know if this can be done, or if it will be able to be done in the near future. I dont understand why Apple had not made this a primary tool within this program.
    Moe

    ave you considered the dashboard widget Easy Envelope by Ambrosia?
    it's suppoosed to do envelopes in a super-easy way.
    I could understand needing this functionality in Pages if you were using Pages to create logo-ed envelopes or trying to merge the addresses within a document, but for now this thingipoo from Ambrosia might be useful.
    er, useful if you have Tiger, that is.

  • Why does address info in Address Book merge in weird ways?

    I have two computers, and I sync them via .Mac. I can't figure out why this strange problem occurs: When I sync Address Book, I often end up with information from addressees that are businesses embedded in the address information of individuals. For example, the person's name remains the same, but a company name (such as the name of the radio station) is inserted under the person's name in the address card. All the contact information of the radio station is also put on the card. So I end up with a card for "so-and-so" with a company name of "such-and-such", with the personal phone number of the person listed as a "home" number and the radio station phone number listed as a "work" number. This really befuddles me. Anyone have a clue what is going on?

    You may want to try this:
    How to reset .Mac Sync

  • Mail crashing due to address book or autofill corruption

    I'm trying to fix an iMac core duo where Mail crashes every time you try to write a new mail. When typing in the "To:" field a few characters, Mail.app crashes.
    It's related to the autofill feature, as when it's deactivated, it works fine.
    However, opening the "previous recipients" window also makes it crash.
    I tried to clean the caches for both Mail and Address Book without result.

    In Address Book, select "All" and then File/Export Group vCard and save the cards on your desktop. Quit Address Book.
    Open folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook and drag the file AddressBook.data (and, if present, AddressBook.data.previous and AddressBook.data.beforeave) to the desktop.
    Try mail to see if the crashing is cured. If it is open AB and use File/Import to pull back in the vCards you exported earlier. If not, you may as well put the .data files back where you got them (quit AB first).
    AK

  • Review before merging duplicated Address Book Cards?

    Is there a way to review the merges that Address Book will perform when I choose the "Look for Duplicates" command? (Maybe a third party app?) I do not want to accept Address Books merge choices before reviewing them. Thanks.

    Yes, the problem is that pages puts each copy of the document in its own section. If you create a template with 8 copies of the label, it will fill in the fields from 1 address 8 times before going on to the next address. You need a template with one label in it, however when you do this you will get 8 sheets with one address label in each.
    I got around this for a sheet of 3x7 labels as follows.
    - make sure the page margins match your label stationary.
    - format the page into the number of columns you want (3 for me, probably 2 for you), and set the gutters to match your stationary.
    - place the whole label in a single cell table - set the size of this to your label size using the graphics inspector.
    - do the mail merge
    - now use find and replace to replace all the section break characters with nothing.
    - You'll need to play around with the exact size of the table until it matches the label size. Note that pages creates a bit of extra whitespace between the tables, so you end up reducing the table size by about .1cm or so.
    - Now save your master document as a template so you can use it again.

  • Crash while adding new Contact to Address Book

    When I add a new contact to my IPhone 4s Address Book ("Contacts") it sometimes crashes if you enter all the information and tap "done". It doesn't crash if you first enter the first/last name - tap done - open the contact and edit it. After "Contacts" crashes the new entry is not saved.
    It is very annoying especially if you are on the go or you ask the person 3 times for their contact details...

    Tell me about it... I always save after entering the name THEN I edit it again to add the number .. save .. and add additional details like email etc

Maybe you are looking for

  • Sales analysis w.r.t 3rd party processing with different vendors

    Hi friends, I am new to this group. My requirement is to find list of materials ordered by customer procured by different third party vendors. e.g There is a sales order from a customer and I have items of which 2 are procured from a 3rd party Vendor

  • Hom System Copy- Error running J2ee migration tool kit

    Good Day Guys, Im performing homogenous system copy.I have encountered below error: INFO 2008-10-20 13:05:33 Output of C:\j2sdk1.4.2_18-x64\bin\java.exe -classpath D:/usr/sap/LE1/SYS/global/sltools/sharedlib/launcher .jar;. com.sap.engine.offline.Off

  • UPGRADE CONFUSION! What are the facts?

    Hi All! I have the 'new' Intel 1.83Mhz mac mini but would like to upgrade my processor. Is this even possible? The techie over at my local mac store told me that the processor can't be upgraded due to the motherboard?! Is this true or farce? I have b

  • Should I convert my MTS (AVCHD) file to another file type before editing with elements 10

    I know premiere elements 10 has project settings for working with AVCHD footage but after doing a bit of reading about how AVCHD (MTS) files are a lot harder for your computer to work with I'm thinking it might be better to convert my raw video files

  • Attaching file to a form

    Need to have a form that is emailed to me that has a attach file button, the form is for registration. After filling out the form there should be a button to attach a file, which will be emailed to me along with the form when the Submit button is pre