Address book autofill?

How soon will address book auto fill the things we often type in, like last name, city, state, country? Bento does auto fill.
Thanks,
DL

Priscilla,
since many people complained about the way auto-complete worked in 10.3.x (that it was always auto-completing as soon as you typed), its behaviour was changed in 10.4 - you will now have to explicitly trigger the auto-completion by pressing "F5" (which by the way also works in many other applications like Mail, Safari, ...)
Andreas

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In OS 10.3.9 while editting the address book it auto-filled based on previous entries (e.g. Country or City name, etc). Since upgrading to 10.4.7 (and 10.4.6 for that matter) this useful feature is gone. I have looked in Preferences to see if I can turn it on, but no luck.
Any tips?
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Priscilla,
since many people complained about the way auto-complete worked in 10.3.x (that it was always auto-completing as soon as you typed), its behaviour was changed in 10.4 - you will now have to explicitly trigger the auto-completion by pressing "F5" (which by the way also works in many other applications like Mail, Safari, ...)
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How can I use apple mail (linked to gmail) and get it to only do autofill on the contacts that I have in apple address book? Everytime I write an email on the Apple mail app (as well as in Gmail) it recommends a bunch of emails that are not my contacts. I want it to just autofill for the contacts that I have in my address book. Is this possible? Thank you. I have an Imac Intel version and an Iphone 5 phone.

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When i try to change eg miller to Miller, anna to Anna etc
1) the initial letter remains lower case and
2) even worse, another iller/nna is added on to the end - milleriller, annanna etc.
I've tried deleting the whole name and starting again - no joy. Is something going wrong with Autofill? Are there any preference files i should try trashing?
NB this problem only occurs with names which appear more than once in the address book.

Hi,
i was having this problem, specifically it kept offering me the word I wanted except all in capitals, which I didn't want. Turned out the cause was that the word was actually used in all capitals elsewhere in my Address Book. Once I hunted down all occurrences of this word in capitals and changed them to my preferred format the autocomplete stopped offering the all-capitalised version. Perhaps this approach will help for you.
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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

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Hello whomever...
I'm at my wits end...I'm about to lose my mind... I thought this unix was "about" bulletproof!? My address book quit autofilling in safari...that's only ONE symptom... It seems that little pieces of programs just go where they please?! In windows of certain programs i'll see a file with a icon that looks like another program then click it just to see what it is and a completely unrelated program opens up...I'll have to try to explain it better later ... but when I click one of these icons that look like binary code(it's not) Bryce 5.5 opens up? In otherprograms with just an icon showing in a 2-deep directory strata 3d tries to open these programs that I'm looking through are completely un-related!! And I've seen them come up in apps that I'v recently got and they didn't have them before!!!!!! This system is just doing things on its own!!!!

Restart your Mac. Should clear it up.
As this is the MacBook Pro hardware community discussion, you should take your question to the appropriate location:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion

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Oh wow, guess what... looks like BT was removed from AB in Leopard!???
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This may be the only way...
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Greetings,
Backup your computer Address Book: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/09/mac-101-back-up-address-book-ical-iphone-before-m obileme/
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Home > Library > Preferences > ByHost > com.apple.AddressBook (remove any and all files with this in the title)
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I have recently switched to a new iMac with a fresh install of 10.6.2.
My Apple Mail app is not grabbing address book contacts automatically even though I have checked the box to auto-complete addresses. This always used to work on my old machine.
Any ideas why this might be happening ? Should I delete the preference file to rebuild it ? Is there a setting I'm not aware of somewhere else ?
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Ed

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Back up all data.
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from the menu bar, and save the archive to your Desktop.
If you use iCloud, disable contact synchronization in the iCloud preference pane. When prompted, click Delete From Mac. Re-enable synchronization. Wait for the contacts to re-synchronize, then test.
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Updated to 10.4.6 from 10.3.9 via purchased Tiger disks, and have been having problems with Apple basic applications.
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iCal opens, then freezes and must Force Quit.
Mail opens, but cannot retrieve or send. Cannot Quit Mail, and must Force Quit.
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===== Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:57:19 PM America/Chicago =====
2006-05-21 20:58:36.955 Mail[456] * Assertion failure in -[ABMutableMultiValue addValue:withLabel:], Framework/AddressBook/ABMultiValue.m:486
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===== Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:59:00 PM America/Chicago =====
2006-05-21 21:01:38.373 Address Book[458] * Assertion failure in -[ABMutableMultiValue addValue:withLabel:], Framework/AddressBook/ABMultiValue.m:486
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