Where in Snow Leopard are address book files kept?

I have a Macbook Pro circa 2008 running OS 10.6.8. My Address Book file seems to have become corrupted and sometimes one file opens(missing names and/or addresses) and sometimes the complete file shows up. What is the address and name of the Address Book files?

In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including
folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)

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Snow Leopard Mail Address Book does no longer sort names

Hi,
I noticed that, after I installed Snow Leopard, the address book I access in Mail does no longer show entries sorted by last names although I set the the address book I access from the dock to do so and it works fine. I thought they're one and the same. How come there is this discrepancy and is there a way to resolve the issue?
Best
Frank

Frank,
The Address Book application opened from the Dock responds to its preference setting for this sort. Quit Mail, and then confirm the sort you want to see in the AB application -- you can choose not only Last Name sort, but whether Last Name appears before First Name, as I am sure you know.
Now relaunch Mail, and when you access from Mail it should now have the same sort you selected in the AB app. Mail is apparently picking up the preference setting in the AB app at the time it launches, and does not change that until you have quit Mail, and then next relaunch it.
Ernie

Snow Leopard's Address Book now Requires Full Name to find a Contact

In all previous versions of Address Book, the user could simply type 'T' to instantly go to contacts with last names that start with 'T' (and businesses that start with 'T').
In Snow Leopard, Address Book can no longer search with one letter the way it did before; it uses a 'Spotlight' type of search where the user must type the full name in order to get an exact match. This type of searching is useful for finding documents on the Mac or searching the Internet, but is totally inefficient for finding contacts in Address Book.
It sounds like someone at Apple decided this was a better way to search for contacts, because this change in search method is described in the new Address Book 'Help' file; it says, "As you type, Address Book begins to search all the information on the cards, including notes, and displays matching contacts, with the matching text highlighted in each card." For example, let's say someone used to type 'T' to search for a contact named Bill Tilman. Now what happens is that Address Book stops at the first person who's first name starts with 'T', and highlights all the T's in the person's card (the T in 'telephone', the T in 'Street', etc. The user must now scroll through all their contacts manually to find Bill Tilman, or else manually type out the complete name 'Bill Tilman'. (If they just type 'Bill', they will only get the first person named Bill.)
I hope Apple will reconsider and will allow Address Book to do the quick one-letter searches by last name (as opposed to 'Sort' by last name, which it still has) like it used to. (Or at least make this a choice in Address Book Preferences.) This would also be more compatible with the way iPhone searches for contacts; when you select a letter in the iPhone's contacts, it finds contacts who's last name starts with that letter, as well as businesses, just like Address Book always used to.

Thanks for your response Ernie. You are correct in that whenever you type a series of letters, Address Book (as it always has) finds every single thing with that combination of letters - Names, businesses, adjectives, people's dogs' names, letters in product serial numbers, etc. This is useful for finding a subject on the Web, or finding all documents related to 'iPhoto' on your Mac, etc., but not useful, quick or convenient when trying to find one person to call in your Address Book (which is what people use Address Book for).
What is DIFFERENT in the Snow Leopard version, is that the ability to type one letter to instantly go to last names with that letter has been removed. Previously, you could easily find 'Bill Tilman' in one second by simply typing 'T'. Now you get every word that starts with T and all the words in the card that have a T in them. If you type out a full name like 'Bill', it finds every person named Bill. No one would ever want to find all their contacts named Bill to call them. You could type out the full last name 'Tilman', but there again you are forced to type out a complete name to do a search. It would actually be quicker to scroll down and find it manually. The ability to type a single letter to find the last name (or business name) of a contact you needed to call, was much quicker and easier than having to type out the entire name.

I can not get imac w/Snow Leopard's address book to sync with ipad 1correctly? I only get about half the contacts?

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Thanks for your response Ernie. You are correct in that whenever you type a series of letters, Address Book (as it always has) finds every single thing with that combination of letters - Names, businesses, adjectives, people's dogs' names, letters in product serial numbers, etc. This is useful for finding a subject on the Web, or finding all documents related to 'iPhoto' on your Mac, etc., but not useful, quick or convenient when trying to find one person to call in your Address Book (which is what people use Address Book for).
What is DIFFERENT in the Snow Leopard version, is that the ability to type one letter to instantly go to last names with that letter has been removed. Previously, you could easily find 'Bill Tilman' in one second by simply typing 'T'. Now you get every word that starts with T and all the words in the card that have a T in them. If you type out a full name like 'Bill', it finds every person named Bill. No one would ever want to find all their contacts named Bill to call them. You could type out the full last name 'Tilman', but there again you are forced to type out a complete name to do a search. It would actually be quicker to scroll down and find it manually. The ability to type a single letter to find the last name (or business name) of a contact you needed to call, was much quicker and easier than having to type out the entire name.

Mimic Snow Leopard's Address Book Server

Is there a way to mimic the functionality of Snow Leopard's upcoming Address Book Server? We recently acquired an Xserve and before the rumors of 10.6 even started up, one of our desired features from Leopard Server was a sort of synchronizing Address Book "server" for our users. Is there any way we could achieve this now? I'm okay with doing some manual set up on each user's (less than 20) computer, and/or a third-party server on the Xserve that could somehow act as the Address Book server.
LDAP and OD are new to us, and we currently aren't using OD to authenticate our users. The desired effect of this is not that our address books for each employee is the same, but that we can sync our address information of all of our clients and such. With the LDAP section of the Address Book.app preferences and the availability of OS X Server, is there anything we can do to achieve Address Book Server functionality today?

There's this:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27004/address-book-server
I have no experience with it, so I can't make a recommendation.

Snow Leopard, Mail & Address Book

The Mail program’s address book used to be able to access the main *Address Book* application by control-clicking on a contact name when in the Mail program. Now the +contextual menu+ doesn’t even come up when control-clicked.
How can I access the main *Address Book* application from Mail (without having to launch it from the Dock )?
This was such a great convenient feature before. Why is it missing now?

Frank,
The Address Book application opened from the Dock responds to its preference setting for this sort. Quit Mail, and then confirm the sort you want to see in the AB application -- you can choose not only Last Name sort, but whether Last Name appears before First Name, as I am sure you know.
Now relaunch Mail, and when you access from Mail it should now have the same sort you selected in the AB app. Mail is apparently picking up the preference setting in the AB app at the time it launches, and does not change that until you have quit Mail, and then next relaunch it.
Ernie

Where are Address Book contacts stored in Mac Os X 7 Lion

Where are Address Book contacts stored in Mac Os X 7 Lion

Click the desktop to activate Finder.
Hold the option key down and click the "Go" menu in the menu bar and then select "Library" from the dropdown.
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Where does Lion save my Address Book contacts?

I've returned to Snow Leopard and am restoring my data manually from a Time Machine backup, but I can't find my contacts. Where has Lion hidden them? and has anyone restored them from Lion to SL?

I think you can back up your Address Book (File->Export->Address Book Archive) in Lion. Then use the file to Import back into Snow Leopard.

Print to PDF - using Snow Leopard (Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, choose

i have a PDF form that i created that is used as a custom proposal that my company sends out to potential clients. the form in its editable state is only used internally. we recently upgraded to snow leopard, but prior to the upgrade, we were able to fill the custom proposal form out using adobe reader, and, as you well know, we weren't able to save that edited document as a PDF with the custom form fields filled out. our work around using adobe reader was to print to a pdf using the adobe pdf printer in the printer dialog. with the addition of snow leopard, however, instead of choosing the adobe pdf printer, we were to choose PDF from the bottom left corner, then Save As PDF, and it would spit out an uneditable pdf that then allowed us to email it to the potential client without them being able to edit it as well as have an internal, digital copy for our records instead of having lots of paper floating around (i know this is also doable using security that disallows the client certain editing privileges, but printing to a pdf is much quicker and more efficient, and the pdf security isn't really that secure at its best).
in any case, i came across this gem of a post here on the support forums that installs another option from the PDF drop down on the bottom left of the print dialog menu that reads Save As Adobe PDF and is supposed to do exactly what i am trying to get it to do...print to a pdf file from adobe reader.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html
once i updated to acrobat 9.2 (as the link above suggests 9.1), however, the Save As Adobe PDF does appear in the print dialog menu, but it still gives me the same error that acrobat 8 - 9 gave me while using Snow Leopard — Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, choose File > Save — and as i've already explained, you can't save an edited pdf form in reader (as i am the only one in the office with acrobat) and still keep the fields as you've entered them in. the only work around is to print to a pdf but is apparently having some recent problems.
using acrobat, however, i know that i can save the editable pdf as a new file with the fields customized as i have left them, but it still saves it as an editable pdf and the print to a pdf option still remains the best option...that way we have digital copies internally that are uneditable that can be printed at any time or emailed to the client.
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A simple way is to flatten the form fields, which converts the field appearances to regular page contents. You can do this with JavaScript or PDF Optimizer (Advanced > PDF Optimizer > Discard Objects > Flatten form fields). A very nice script that adds a custom menu item can be found here: http://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/

Obsolete Address Book Files

I was poking around inside the address book files in user/library and I think that there have been some changes to the file structures that leave some old files as obsolete. Some of the ones I have date to 2001.
I created a new user and didn't find any files for address book so I opened Address Book and it created these files. I can assume that these are current, all in users/<user>/Library/Applications Support/AddressBook
ABPerson.skIndexInverted
ABSubscribedPerson.skIndexInverted
AddressBook.data
AddressBook.data.previous
and a folder called Images with a single file (which is the the Apple logo)
DAB81935-712C-4BA2-A70B-59AA7725FD8F
In my regular account I have these files PLUS
ABPerson.index (dated in Oct 03)
ABPerson.skIndex (dated in Apr 05)
AddressBook.data.beforesave (dated in May 05)
AddressBook.data.previous (dated 3 days ago, probably current)
Further at the ~/Library level I have
Address Book Plug-Ins (folder, empty)
Addresses (folder, with stuff dated '02 and earlier)
I assume that this old stuff is obsolete but I couldn't find anything about it on the Knowledge Base.
- gws

eventually all the obsolete files were identified and deleted

Where does Snow Leopard store iTunes Music

Greetings,
I wanted to get a clean start for my iTunes Library.
First, I deleted my iTunes folder in Documents into the trash and then emptied the Trash. Second, I deleted the iTunes app.
I went to iTunes and downloaded a new iTunes application. After it was installed the entire iTunes music library was there when I opened my new download of the iTunes Application.
Where did it come from if I deleted my iTunes folder thinking I was deleting all of my downloaded songs?
So my question is where does Snow Leopard store these songs? I assumed they would be gone so I could begin to put in new albums in my iTunes.
Thanks in advance for your help and support.
Leigh

You can find out or change where the actual songs are by opening iTunes/Preferences/Advanced (I'm still on iTunes 8 so I apologize if your menu looks different). Click my link below. The yellow highlight is mine.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/racer27x/Public/Picture2-1.png
Message was edited by: Frank Muller

Where is Snow Leopard? Where buy it on september 2012?

Where is Snow Leopard? Where buy it on september 2012?

I can't call Apple because in France it is a very expensive call number.
This type of phone number is forbidden at my office and not included with my personnal mobile phone contract.
Amazon sells Snow Leopard but the price is not ridiculous.
2 weeks ago, Snow Leopard Family was 50 euros ($ 61) on Apple Store, today, on Amazon, it is 118 euros ($ 145).
And I find Snow Leopard on US Amazon, not on France Amazon.
I don't know if the delivery is possible, i don't find this information.
It' s a very big problem!
I don't understand why Apple stop selling Snow Leopard while there are still people who need them...
(Sorry for my bad english.)

Address book files

Are the address book files in Home - Application Support - identical to those in Home - Library - Application Support.
If so, why? i.e. whats the point?

Hi,
There shouldn't be an Application Support folder in your Home Folder, just in your Home Folder->Library folder. Don't know how you got it, so I can't offer any further advice. Maybe you accidently copied it there? Or moved it there? Did you notice a loss of application preferences at any point in the past?
The Application Support folder in your Library folder should be the one that the OS keeps updated; the other might just be a red herring, otherwise there's something screwy going on.
Hope this helps.
SiR G.

Old address book files

Address book is very slow when typing a name in the search box. Another post in this forum suggests deleting the file addressbook-v22.abcddb. I did that with no noticeable effect, but when I checked the other files (in ~/library/application support/address book/) I found all sorts of small address book files with modification dates as old as 2003, e.g., ABPerson.index, ABPerson.skindex.
Does the application updater leave this garbage hanging around or are these essential files? If they're not used, as seems to be the case, according to their modification dates, does it make a difference?

User library>Application Support>Address Book folder. Copy the whole folder.

Using "Send Update" from the address book file menu.

I plan to use the "Send Update" from the File menu in Address Book to notify a large group I've created of my upcoming change of address. If a person on my list of people to to receive the update message has more than one email address, to which email address does Address Book send the message? All email address' of each person?
Also, I assume, from the email message window created when sending an update, recipients will see only the name of the group I created instead of all of the email addresses of all the people to which the update was sent. Have I assumed correctly?

How did you move your Thunderbird data from its default position?
If you had simply shifted your entire profile, the address book files would have moved too, so I suspect you've used the dangerous and inadvisable "Local Directory" option in Account Settinhgs to relocate specific mailstore files. :-(
I don't know of any way to set the path for address books. They are, it seems, required by design to reside in the user profile folder.
I don't like to advise use of the Local Directory settings, since doing so detaches message stores from your profile and makes profile management and maintenance a whole lot more difficult. Automated tools such as Mozbackup won't know to look outside the regular profile to safeguard your messages. All the published advice about profile management assumes you use the default locations which are within the profile. The Local Directory setting should, IMHO, be hidden inside the about:config editor for use only by power users.

Where in Snow Leopard are address book files kept?

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