Address book capacity or amount of memory per entry

I am working on a project that would add a shared database of contacts to a variety of handhelds.
After searching this forum and others I can see that the address book capacity seems dependent on the onboard memory.
Can any tell me or direct me to an estimate of the amount of handheld memory required per contact?
Ideally, I would like to get the memory per contact and the memory per contact w/attached photo.
right now the database is Name, home address, DOB, notes, and User1-3. Adding a photo is kind of pie in the sky considering that I don't have the photo files yet, but it seems a natural evolution of my project so...
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try
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end repeat
save
end try
end tell
I have to acknowledge Trevor Harmon scripts for giving guidelines.
I had to add the get statements to resolve properly the related names of the person
The script works well on a small address book, but on the full book it slows to a crawl and stops.
Of course I could re-import using abee - but that wont help me learn about address book scripts.
Anyone see any problems that would cause the script to slow to a crawl? I assume its somehow consuming memory....

Hello
Accessing item in large list can be very slow in AppleScript unless appropriate coding method is used. Also the 'whose' filter can be very slow in filtering large collection of objects (though I doubt it is the case here).
Anyway, you may try something like the script below which avoids the 'whose' filter.
(NOT tested, for my environment is too for this.)
--SCRIPT 1
tell application "Address Book"
repeat with p in (get every person)
set p to p's contents -- # dereference the list item reference [1]
tell p
repeat with r in (get its related names)
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if r's label = "Group" and r's value = "B" then
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--delete related name id (get r's id) -- # alternative to the above [2]
end if
end repeat
end tell
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end repeat
save addressbook
end tell
[1] Dereferening the list item reference is costly operation in AppleScript.
So dereferece it once (especially if it is used more than once in the iteration).
[2] Use 'by ID' reference form if the 'delete r' does not work properly.
(E.g., if r is in 'by index' reference form and there're multiple related names,
'delete r' won't work properly due to changing index.)
--END OF SCRIPT 1
Or the following one which, in addition, implements a fast method to process large list.
--SCRIPT 1a
main()
on main()
script o
property pp : {} -- # define large list as script object's property
property rr : {} -- # idem
tell application "Address Book"
set pp to get every person
repeat with p in my pp -- # use refenence to script object's property (i.e. my pp)
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tell p
set rr to get its related names
repeat with r in my rr -- # use refenence to script object's property (i.e. my rr)
set r to r's contents -- # dereference the list item reference [1]
if r's label = "Group" and r's value = "B" then
make new url at end of urls with properties {label:"Group", value:"GroupB"}
delete r
--delete related name id (get r's id) -- # alternative to the above [2]
end if
end repeat
end tell
--save addressbook
end repeat
save addressbook
end tell
end script
tell o to run
end main
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So dereferece it once (especially if it is used more than once in the iteration).
[2] Use 'by ID' reference form if the 'delete r' does not work properly.
(E.g., if r is in 'by index' reference form and there're multiple related names,
'delete r' won't work properly due to changing index.)
--END OF SCRIPT 1a
Hope this may help,
H

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