List fields in Address Book

Does anyone know how to set fixed fields in Address Boo when printing lists? I can't seem to set a default group of fields I want, and have o check off boxes every time I print.

From what I can see from the preferences, there isn't a way, unless you hack the code to make it archive the settings. The program just isn't doing it right now. Perhaps in the next version.
The other option is possibly a User Interface (UI) Applescript, but those are difficult to write. I never end up getting them right and it takes me more time to write them than I'd save with the script.

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Not all fields in Address Book are syncing

For some reason not all the fields in my address book get synced from one computer to another. The template for all the fields in address book are the same on the different computers but the 'Department' field does not get synced. Any ideas how to fix this?

So sorry...yes I'm using Contacts from Outlook.
When I launch Field Mapping from the Advanced Settings for Address Book, the Handheld fields that are available for me to map to my Contacts in Outlook, do not include the fields previously mentioned so there is no way for me to map them to a destination field in Outlook.
Maybe I'm using an old version of Desktop Manager??? Mine is version 3.6.0.63 (June 11 2003)...could you please let me know what version you have?
Many thanks!

I am trying to export only an individual list from my address book. I can only export the entire address book. No way to decipher it once in Excel either.

I hate to admit how much time I have spent on this issue. I have been trying to separate just the "lists" from within my T-Bird address book, and export them (again, just the names on those individual lists) into a csv or tab delimited file, so I can import it into one of the newer mail programs.
Honestly I have been trying to figure out my way around this for years. "Lists" have always been clunky and difficult to work with. Lots of unpredictablity, and you can only go so long in the list before it will no longer send, and you need to create a new one. I send these out for a business, with some customers going back ten years or more.
Since I have never been able to figure it out, I just keep using T-Bird for this, even though its never worked reliably.
Recently I have been forced into a change. The "lists" will no longer send emails that are received by recipients. Probably some new spam or security things out there. No emails send. Now I have to do something, but to retype hundreds of names from scratch is just not the kind of thing that gives me joy.
I would be eternally grateful to the person who can help...
Paul Kamp, Chicago

This add-on may help:
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
I've had this add-on for so long that I can't remember what it does and does not provide.
If you select a List in your Address Book, so that its contents display at the right, does "Export" not write just the Lists's member Contacts out to the csv file?
It does here, but this may be thanks to the above-mentioned add-on.

How do I create a separate Address Book? I'm not asking about a mailing list but an address book where the addresses are not mixed in with my regular address b

How do I create a separate Address Book? I'm not asking about a mailing list but an address book where the addresses are not mixed in with my regular address book. I already have three address books created for me by Thunderbird. I add all new addresses to one of those but am afraid to delete the other address books because some of their addresses are not repeated in my "main" address book. So if I don't delete all the names in one of the existing books, I need to create an empty book that will not mix the addresses with those in another address book. HOW DO I CREATE A NEW, EMPTY ADDRESS BOOK? I want to be able to create various mailing LISTS using the addresses in this new book so I will eventually have a special address book with a variety of mailing lists I can use as I wish.

In 24.4.0 there is no File|New|Address Book. There is File|New|Address Book Contact. How do I create a new address book ?

Adding Images To Note Field In Address Book

Hello chaps,
I'd like to be able to take a screengrab from streetmap and bung this into the notes field of Address Book so that I have a handy map of where my contact is whether I'm online or off. Anyone know of a way to do this?

So far as I am aware, the notes field will only accommodate text. However, you could consider using the URL field for a reference to a file containing the map data, such as:
file:///Users/username/Documents/Maps/picture%201.png

I am trying to transfer my AOl contact list to my address book and can't do it. anyway to do it?

i am trying to transfer my aol contact list to my address book. is this possible?

Might be a bit old but I hope it still works. This app does excatly what you said you were looking to do.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/aolserviceassistant.htm l

How can I copy a large number of contacts into a list in the address book?

I want to send a message to a large fraction of the people in my address book. How do I copy their addresses into a new list without doing it by hand?

Thanks for your answer. It works very poorly. I have tried a number of permutations, and each one fails in some way. If I try to copy ten names, it may just write the first few. if I highlight all the names in the source book, then the list name doesn't highlight when I move my cursor over it - only the other address books do that. I got the closest to success by exporting my entire source address book to a text file, removing the unwanted names by hand, and then importing only a few fields to a new address book - name and email address. When I highlight all the entries in this new address book and drag them to the target list, it copies MOST but not all of the entries. I have never seen drag and drop work so poorly. Any ideas?

How did Nickname field in Address Book get filled in?

I went to send an email to myself (I send to-do lists to myself because I forget everything ) from my imac and when I typed in my name, I noticed that in front of all of my email addresses, the label "Princess" was showing up. I had NEVER seen this before and this is NOT a nickname that I use for myself EVER. I started to get kind of nervous that anybody who sends me an email or gets an email from me is seeing this (corny) nickname. I could not understand where it came from. I send emails to myself quite often and this was the first time I had seen this.
I went into my Address Book and sure enough under my name, there was a field I had never even known existed, "Nickname". It somehow filled in with "Princess". How the heck did this happen? The only other person with access to my imac is my husband and he is not imac savvy, he definitely didn't do it. I started to get nervous that something was hacked, I just really don't know how something like that could happen.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Thanks,
Kate
(definitely not a princess)

That is weird...someone had to have put it there; either that, or Apple knows something about you and automatically populated that field.
If you are worried someone has unauthorized access to your account, though, you can just change the password and security questions. I try to change my password and questions at least once a year even if I don't suspect any unauthorized access.
You can also remove the nickname field entirely under Contacts' preferences.

List view in Address Book

I have recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, but notice in Address Book that prefixes(Mr, Mrs etc) do not appear in the list view, but do on the card. In Leopard the prefixes appear in both views. Is this just a fault in the program, or can it be rectified?

I'm going to bump this up - I, too have this problem/question. Any suggestions?

How can I migrate my group lists with my address book?

I have moved from Windows XP to Ubuntu (YEAH!). I was using TB in XP and I was able to successfully move my address book with all of my contacts' information by copying and pasting the abook.mab file. But I seem to have lost (or at least I am currently missing) the group lists that I had created using that address book. Where is that information stored and how do I transfer it to TB in Ubuntu? Is it as simple as copying another certain file or will I have to extract and then import some information from some file(s)? Those group lists were almost as important as the address book itself and I made the assumption (yes, I know!) that the group list info was integral to the address book itself. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

No, I did not export and then import the address book. I just copied the .mab file. Is that what I have to do? Is there another file, or portion thereof, that I can just copy across? I have all those #appdata# files saved, but i do not have Windows running anymore. I have also now noticed that my "Collected Addresses" were not contained in the abook.mab file either. It would be good if I could recover them too.
Thanks again for any help. Much appreciated!

Delete fields in Address Book view

I imported my Outlook contacts into AB via .txt file. Now all of the address cards that I have just imported have bithdays and anniversaries with the same date. These fields do not appear on my template in preferences. Is there a way to delete these 2 fields on all of my cards?
Thanks

Hi Rob,
What I meant to post was:
set HitDate to (date "Sunday, November 21, 1999 00:00:00") + 12 * hours
tell application "Address Book"
-- Loop through people
repeat with thisPerson in people
-- Loop through element
repeat with thisDate in (custom dates of thisPerson)
-- Take action
if value of thisDate is equal to HitDate then
delete thisDate
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
This doesn't work (the items are not deleted), but doesn't error.
It seems to me to be a bug in Address Book.
John M

Unable to edit birthday field in Address book

I am unable to edit a card in address book properly. If I try to enter a birthday in the birthday field by either May 2, 1972 or 05/02/1975 no input of any kind sticks.
Can anyone tell me why and how to fix this problem?

There is something really weird going on.
If I start a blank test card and I type (all end in return):
December 1 1973, the field goes blank
If I type December 1 (return), the field changes to 1 December. Then, if I put my cursor in, I can go back and add 1973, but not with the orignal December 1.
I CAN write 1 December 1973, but not December 1 1973.
This is bizarre. It worked just fine before Lion.
In Canada (which is my chosen country and language on my keyboard when I set up my user) we say Month/Day/Year. In Quebec I believe they would write 1 December 1973, but in Ontario we would write December 1, 1973.
This is no longer intuitive and a huge time waster!

Unable to edit "Note:" field in Address Book

I have updated to Mac OS X 10.6.4 one week ago (from 10.5.).
Now for the first, I am trying to edit the "Note:" field of one of my contacts, but I am neither able to add text, nor can I delete text.
I have 47 lines of text in that Note field and wanted to add a few words, but after typing it, it keeps disappearing after a few seconds. If I delete a few lines of text, they keep reappearing after a few seconds.
Editing the Note field (which has less lines of text) in another contact first exhibited the same behavior, but now works flawlessly.
Having the "Edit" button depressed or not, does not make a difference.
Address Book Help says that this happens when there is not enough disk space, but I have over 41GB left.

Hello Marcus and others,
I have experienced the same issues with my Address Book (version 5.0). First things first, let me suggest you complete a back up of your address book:
1. Go to the File drop down menu
2. Click on Export
3. Select *Address Book Archive* from the 2 choices
4. Choose where you would like to store this back up. Let's just say the Desktop for now.
5. Disclaimer, any unsaved data will be lost during this reset, so please back up all files you will need.
6. After you have successfully archived your Address Book, turn off your computer.
7. Now here's the important part, hold down the power button for at least 6 seconds or until you hear a loud sound or tone. This should reset your settings back to default.
This is how I just fixed the problem with editing the Notes of my contacts in my Address Book 5.0
Good luck and I hope this helps someone.
Nupeologist

How can I send someone a 'list' from my address book?

I see that you can't from one of the previous answers. So I tried to 'export' the 'list'. I don't see how you can do that. If I highlite the list, it exports the entire address book (1600+0 items and I can't edit that down to my 40 member list. So what else can I do?

Try this add-on: https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
According to its author's webpage:
''- gives the possibility to import and export a single contact or a list;''
And this very evening I have used it myself to export an address book whilst investigating a query about sending to multiple addresses. The add-on let me export a Mailing List so I could create a file containing a list of valid email addresses.

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)

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