Unable to edit distribution list in address book?

Under address Book edit, the edit distribution list is greyed out. I have several groups that i need to correct the default email, but since I have upgraded to Lion, I have been unable to do this. These are not smart groups. I was able to do this with Snow Leopard but I cannot

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  • Edit Distribution List in Address Book is gray

    After updating to Lion OS 10.7, the Edit Distribution List menu selection is grayed out. How do we edit Distribution List (Groups) with contacts with multiple email addresses?

    The key is that the Contact List is now being kept in the Cloud & you cannot edit the Distribution List in your Mac's Address Book.
    Easy Fix:
    Quit your Address Book
    Go to  Menu --> Sys Preferences --> iCloud
    Uncheck the CONTACTS icon
    Close Sys Pref
    Open Address Book - Edit your Distribution Lists (No longer Greyed out)
    Quit Address Book
    Go to  Menu --> Sys Preferences --> iCloud
    Check the CONTACTS icon
    You should be good to go!
    Hope this helps!
    ...John

  • 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!

  • Distribution lists in Address Book don't stay set

    I have several groups I e-mail regularly and many of the people on the lists have multiple e-mail addresses. I know to go to Edit Distribution List to select which one I want that group message to be sent to, but the selections don't seem to stay selected for that list...is there some way of saving the selections for a distribution list that I am missing? Am not sure whether the people with multiple addresses are just not getting the messages when they aren't selected or whether the message is going to all their e-mail addresses, neither of which is desirable.

    Talked with AppleCare yesterday and was informed that this behavior is "normal"--whenever you close Address Book, it "forgets" the Distribution List choices you made. Apparently the only way to have someone in your Address book with different e-mail addresses that you use for different group mailings on a regular basis (in my case, folks on both the Chamber of Commerce list with their business e-mail and the Arts Alert list with their home e-mail), is to create duplicate cards for those individuals. One more aggravation in my efforts to be a good neighbor/volunteer who distributes useful information to others for free. If anyone knows another way to accomplish this, I'd sure appreciate hearing about it.

  • 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.
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    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

  • Help please - Contacts freezes when I try to edit distribution lists

    When I try to edit the addresses distribution list for a group, Contacts freezes with a spinning beachball. I've tried exporting the group as a CSV file, trashing the entire Address Book folder in Library > Application Support, launching Contacts and importing the CSV file, but this hasn't helped.
    Editing distribution lists in Address Book / Contacts has been problematic since at least Lion. Seems like Contacts development was foisted off on a handful of green interns a long time ago.
    Can anyone suggest an iCloud- & iPhone-compatible third-party contacts manager with some back-end muscle? Cobook is a nice front-end, but it doesn't solve my problem.

    Well, I found that it doesn't actually freeze - it just takes 20 minutes or so to respond. This with a database of about 3,700 contacts. It also takes 5 minutes or so to accept the renaming of a smart group.
    Who in **** built this thing? And, why are they spending more time on simulating fake leather and taking away and then restoring 3-panel view than on making this a halfway decent database?
    Sadly, the only contacts app I can find that seems to have a robust back end is made by - Microsoft. Sad.

  • Creating lists in address book

    Help! I have details in my address book of members of our club together in a group, I wish to create lists for our members showing all details ie address phone nos email etc... with 2 columns on A4 page similar to labels, (cannot do this choosing a label format as it does not give options to add fields).
    The pocket address book is very untidy could not find a way of customizing this(cuts details in half at bottom of page), the 'list' option available only shows 7 people's details per page too many pages to print to give to the members.
    I am a bit of a novice at this, can anyone suggest a solution please?

    Hello Golden Shoes, further to your reply I am disappointed there is not a satisfactory solution to my simple requirement. I managed a result it worked, however I feel it was a bodged one, after a lot of effort & frustration as I am not an expert, in précis I did the following:
    Address book -services- text edit then 'list' in address book (select fields required) then 'open PDF in preview' on desktop - select - edit - copy & paste on the text edit document- save as RTF document.
    I then amended, deleted, made spaces of the information which was shown in one long column. Then used help for 'columns' info.
    Used 3 columns on each page, cut & pasted the information as required. Now I have a list of names & addresses to give to our members on 2 pages only instead of 'list' which is 5.
    I can amend this list as required.
    Laborious, untidy, unsatisfactory, frustrating, it would have been great if a labels format was possible to show addresses, e-mail & phone nos.
    I would be interested in your further comments, thank you.
    Barbara

  • HT2486 Cannot access Edit Distribution List

    I used to be able to access the Edit Distribution List but it is now grayed out. Does this have anything to do with using iCloud?
    Any ideas?

    Yes it does.  See this article.
    http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20126108-263/address-book-distribution-list -editor-disabled-by-icloud/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt

  • Edit an "intelligent group" in the "edit distribution list"

    Dear all,
    how can i edit members of an "intelligent group" in the "edit distribution list"?
    What I try to find out is if it is possible to edit members with more than one email adress like it works for a normal group.
    I managed to get the "edit distribution Llist" button in the adress book enabled, but I can't edit an "intelligent group".
    System:
    Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion)
    Thanks in advance.

    If you want to allow edit functionality of attached files without development work, you can tell your users to attach folders instead of documents. When the folder is opened from the detail screen the edit locally functionality is available for the folder's content through the standard hover menu. Of course the task description would have to include instructions on which file to edit. Not perfect, but could be a solution.
    Henning

  • Edit Distribution List doesn't work

    Before printing a group of envelopes, I used the Edit Distribution List command to make sure the correct addresses were in bold face. I OK'd the list, then printed the envelopes. The number of envelopes to be printed was larger than the number I wanted to print, so I check in preview & discovered that in fact all addresses, not only those in bold in the distribution list, were to be printed.
    How can I prevent this from happening?

    How can I prevent this from happening?
    What you're describing is not abnormal; you seem to misunderstand what the Edit Distribution List command does. It does not let you choose which contacts to print or anything of the sort; it lets you edit contact information. So unless you remove or delete a contact from the group that you're printing, they will all print.
    You can read more about that in the Help document for it.
    Mulder

  • When printing a list in Address Book, how can I select more than the default Attributes and keep them selected when I print again? I want to print ALL information for contacts so I have email address, notes, phone, company, title, etc all on one page.

    When printing a list in Address Book, how can I select more than the default Attributes and keep them selected when I print again? I want to print ALL information for contacts so I have email address, notes, phone, company, title, etc all on one page. I don't want to have to check off an additional 5 or 6 attributes each time I print out contact information. Is there a way to change the default setting for printing lists, so it is not just "phone," "photo," and "job title?"

    I have a user who wants to do this same thing. I did not find any way either to default the attributes to anything other than what you see the first time. Seems like such a trivial thing, hard to believe they do not allow it. I did find a program for this called iDress but I can't seem to download it from any links on the Internet. Not sure if it is free or not, but it was recommended by a link on the Mac support site.

  • How do i send a contact list from address book to another person via email?

    how do i send a contact list from address book to another person via email?

    And your destination user uses a mac?
    Click on the group name.
    Go to the menu File > Export VCard . . .
    Save that file and send it.
    The recipient should  go to File > Import to import your list.
    MtD

  • Alphabetizing names list in address book

    How do I alphabetize the names list in address book?
    Regards
    owenski

    They come alphabetized by last name by default. You can change this in the preferences and sort them by name.

  • Address Book "Edit Distribution List" not working in Lion 10.7.2

    I have been told by people in my "Groups" that I am sending to the wrong e-mail addresses.  I checked and sure enough so I went to edit the distribution list for that group and it's greyed out. It worked prior to this update. My wifes is still using 10.7.1 and edit didtribution list is not greyed out.....anyone having the same issue or any ideas where it is now or how to re-enable it....or is it just broken?  Also I am contented into iCloud.

    To add to my original post.... My wifes OS was 10.7.1 and I just finished the update to 10.7.2 and signed into iCloud.  I first transfered iCal but left Address Book.  When I went into Address Book and checked the Distribution List it was not greyed out.  Next I transfered Address Book to iCloud and checked Dist List and it was greyed out.  Next I removed Address Book from iCloud (leaving a copy of it on the computer), restarted AB and checked to see if DL was still greyed and it was not.  So no fixes here but if you want the functionality of the DL you could turn off Address Book in iCloud temp until they come up with a fix.  Important: if you turn off Address Book from iCloud be sure to leave a copy on your puter and of course before doing any of this make a Archive Backup of Address Book.  I guess at this point it'll just be a waiting game until a fix comes out.  Cheers, Neil

  • Unable to manage Distribution list membership since moving from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

    Hi,
    We have recently started migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.  One of our customers used to be able to manage a security group through the outlook address book.  This is a mail enabled security group where the customer is on
    the "Managed by" entry and the "Manager can update membership list" is ticked. 
    Now that the users mailbox has been migrated to Exchange 2010, if they try and modify the membership using outlook by finding the group in the address book they get the error "changes to the distribution list membership cannot be saved. you do not have
    sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object".
    I have now added a test account to the managed by entry on the security group to test the problem.
    I have followed the article
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2009/11/18/3408844.aspx that explains how to use the EMS to give users the right to amend groups that users own.  I did not run the script but entered the following commands:
    New-ManagementRole -name “MyDistributionGroupsManagement_Test” -parent MyDistributionGroups
    Remove-ManagementRoleEntry “MyDistributionGroupsManagement_Test\New-DistributionGroup” -confirm:$false
    Remove-ManagementRoleEntry “MyDistributionGroupsManagement_Test\Remove-DistributionGroup” -confirm:$false
    New-ManagementRoleAssignment -name “MyDistributionGroupsManagement_Test-Default Role Assignment Pol” -role “MyDistributionGroupsManagement_Test” -policy “Default Role Assignment Policy”
    All appears to have worked ok and I have seen no errors while doing this
    If I use OWA and then use the ECP, I can now see the "Public groups I own" but no groups are listed.
    I have created some new distribution groups in Exchange 2010 (One dist list and one security group) to test and added the test account as an owner of both and a member of both.  I still cannot amend the membership using outlook address book and the
    ECP still shows no groups under "Public Groups I own"
    I have seen a number of articles on how to do this and it looks like I am doing everything right and it has worked for plenty of other people.  I just don't know what's going wrong.
    I would be very grateful if anyone can help. 
    Matt

    Hi Rajith,
    I deleted the outlook profile and recreated it but this did not work.
    I have now created a brand new mailbox on Exchange 2010 added this to the "managed by" section of the Exchange 2010 dist lists and I still get the error.  I also do not see the groups listed when logging in as that user to OWA ECP and clicking on the
    Groups link.
    I had a look at the link you sent me and I could see that from the Exchange server when I opened the User roles to get to the ECP, clicked on Roles and Auditing and then User Roles the only policy applied is "Default role assignment".  When I select
    the details for this, under Distribution groups, "My Distribution Groups" is not ticked but my new one that I created "My DistributionGroupsManagement_Test" is.  So this looks ok.
    Any other ideas?
    Matt

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