Adding Previous Recipients overwrites existing Contacts in AB/Contacts
i had a couple of problems the last time i went into Mac Mail and tried to add my Previous Recipients to my Address Book/Contacts so that i can use this data to AUTOCOMPLETE emails on my MBP, Mac Pro and my iPhone. right now these databases reside solely on the computer that Mail is installed upon so ostensibly adding them manually to AB/Contacts allows you to sync for Autocomplete.
1. do you have problems with a Previous Recipeint named "John Smith" overwriting a Contact "John Smith" so that now in AB/Contacts you have just an email address instead of the phone number (which i need to make calls)?
2. is there a way to add these Previous Recipients so that they go into a /specific/ group? i have a ton of groups and currently with the switch to iCloud there is apparently no longer a way to SORT BY UNGROUPED which means i have a ton of contacts that only reside in ALL CONTACTS and this makes life very difficult for finding things.
3. do you basically maintain the link of these Previous Recipients by going into Previous Recipients on your various machines from time to time and checking to see what has been added to this list but has not been added to AB/Contacts? and then do you manually add these?
4. is there such a thing as Previous Recipients on my iPhone? i mean, if i reply to a VIP on my iPhone - would i think have to wait until i also replied to his/her email on one of my computers before i had a chance to see that this was a Previous Recipient that had to be added to my contact database?
TIA for any help or link to url's on this.
also a shout out to the mac developer crew. i would love to see a way to see globally how all my contacts are or are not sorted into GROUPS. at the very least it would be great to see the ones not in groups so i can make sure everything can be added to the group.
and finally, i am not a fan of the new UI for Contacts on the iPhone in iOS6. this checkmark business where i have to go through and uncheck All Contacts and then check the individual group(s) i want to see is a major pain from the previous implementation which i don't remember but which i never had a problem with. does anyone know how to manage 20+ groups without contantly clicking on and off things in this UI on the iPhone these days...?
ThanosD wrote:
I am not trying to do this via the address-book. I am in the Previous Recipients dialog of Mail.
that dialog has very limited functionality. as you've found out, if an email is already present in some AB contact it won't let you import it again from the previous Recipients list. and it won't put them in existing contacts. it will always make separate entries. the best you can do is select all (or some) items in previous recipients and click 'add to address book". it will add the addresses that are not already in the AB and ignore the others.
From there, I should be able to add an entry into the address-book using the "Add to Addressbook" button.
Sure, I could take every entry in Previous Recipients, and manually edit the address-book entries, but there are hundreds, and that would take me forever.
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i think i was not very clear.
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Saturday night I had 600-some "cards" in my Contacts, which I store on iCloud (and sync between my desktop Mac and iPhone). Around midnight on Sunday, the number suddenly grew to 2,315--I can see when it happened by comparing backups in Time Machine. The new ones, I'm pretty sure, all came from Previous Recipients in Mail, but I have no idea how. I wasn't using the computer at that time.
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i have also posted this in the Lion forum as i am stuck on lion on the mac pro even though i went ahead and upgraded to ML on the MBP before realizing this.
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TIA for any help or link to url's on this.
also a shout out to the mac developer crew. i would love to see a way to see globally how all my contacts are or are not sorted into GROUPS. at the very least it would be great to see the ones not in groups so i can make sure everything can be added to the group.
and finally, i am not a fan of the new UI for Contacts on the iPhone in iOS6. this checkmark business where i have to go through and uncheck All Contacts and then check the individual group(s) i want to see is a major pain from the previous implementation which i don't remember but which i never had a problem with. does anyone know how to manage 20+ groups without contantly clicking on and off things in this UI on the iPhone these days...?hi carolyn. thanks. always good to hear from you.
i think i was not very clear.
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