Address book - category names on cards?

Is it possible to get each card in the addressbook to show what categories the card is assiciated with, or do I really have to look inside each category looking for the card to find that out?

By categories do you mean which Address Book Group or Groups a contact is associated with?
If so, select a contact in the Name column and press the Option key.
Address Book highlights the Groups the contact belongs to in the Groups column.

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Address book-multiple names in 1 entry

How do I add multiple names to one address card? For example, if a married couple has different last names, like John Smith and Jane Doe, when I try to enter in the name field it only lets me enter 1 last name and 1 first name.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
You don't. The public schema for the Address Book application was intended to support one record per individual identity. You should create separate records for each significant other individual.
You can 'relate' records in a fashion by selecting the relationship field below birthday—usually with presets for friend and assistant set by default, as I recall—insert the name of the related party, and choose an appropriate indicator: father, mother, parent, brother, sister, child, friend, spouse, partner, assistant, manager, other or some custom field label you enter. When searching for all related parties, you can search for the last name, if you have included that information in the relationship data field, and all related records will be shown in a list.

Add Sender to Address Book Category?

Does anyone know if you can set up a "rule" or something of that nature to the Add Sender to Address Book feature? I would like all of my contacts from my .me email to be saved in a preset category in my Address Book.

Take a look at Andreas Amann's Mailscripts. His add to address book script instructions:
"Select all messages you want to use for creating the mailing list (for creating a mailing list, you would choose all messages in a mailbox which contains all messages on a certain topic).
Run the script and you get a list with all addresses contained in the selected messages - mark all the addresses you want to add to the Address Book using the checkboxes.
From the popup menu, choose which group you want to update with the selected addresses or select "Create new Group..." and enter the name for the new group to be created.
The script checks whether an address is already present before adding it to the Address Book in order to avoid duplicate entries. If additional information is available for an entry already present in the Address Book (e.g., full name information for an entry which had prior been email-only), the entry will be updated."
AK

Address Book contains both 'biz card' entries and email entries

I'm a recent convert to Mail from Eudora.
I'm rattled when I view Address Book's contents and see cards that only show an email address.
a) I'd like to know how they got in there to begin with, and
b) I'd like to remove them in order to be able to view only Name, Company, Phone#, Address data
In other words, since Mail executes Autofill, why would I need a card in Address Book with only an email address? Unless there is a purpose for those cards, which is my real question here, I'm going to remove them. Will wait first to hear some good tech help responses. (fyi, the Genius at my One-on-One was not able to tell me why they are there).
TIA!!!
Sonia

Well, yeah. That goes without saying. The issue is that the hundreds of email entries I see in my Address Book I never chose to put in. Don't know how they got there or why. thx anyway!

Address Book: why do some Cards in a Group not get into the email?

I have a group with about 55 email addresses, each on a card in Address Book. When I use the list in Apple's Mail program, two cards do not get included.
This has happened many times, and I keep verifying the name is in the group.

Well, before I read your response . . . I started looking more seriously at my Address Book cards. Should have done this first! The problems ones had email addresses in the work phone field.
Unfortunately, when you look at the Card, both fields are labeled 'work.' If you make a mistake filling it out, you can't see the error unless you Edit the card.
But thanks for trying to help me! As a retired usability engineer, I hope someone will look at the labeling on the Cards!

Address Book field names changing for "imported" data

I'm migrating from a thousand year old Palm Pilot that has served me so well to an iPhone. So it's time to get my contacts into OSX Address Book.
I have tried moving the data a couple of ways - exporting vCards and text files from the Palm Desktop software.
I did extensive editing of the text file in MS Excel to get the data into good order.
I have set up a template in the Address Book preferences to create fields that I want/need. Some are generic default field names, some have custom names. eg. I want to see a field called "Bus. Phone" not one called "work". Call me picky.
I get the same basic result no matter if I import the vCard file or a text file - The names of the fields just show up with very generic names in the imported data. I should note that creating a NEW record seems to use the field names that I have specified in the preferences.
Also, when importing the text file, Address Book asks me to assign the field names for certain fields (while it seems smart enough to know what labels to use for other fields all on it's own). However, the Field Names available in the drop down menu ARE NOT the ones that I have set up in the prefs. I seem limited to the generic default field names only.
Can anybody tell me how to get the field names to be what I want them to be for address data that is being imported like this?
Thanks for any suggestions - this has been driving me crazy as it would seem to me to be a pretty basic process. (I mean, the Address Book has this import functionality and custom field name functionality built in so it should work right?!)
Allen

No sooner do I ask than I notice that other people have asked the same question. In one of the reply's I saw mention of a product called "Abee".
I tracked it down and it did the job for me! Custom Field names live on!
It's at:
http://www.sillybit.com/abee/

Address book corrupts names

Address book/Mail keeps corrupting some names in my address book.
I have had .mac on three mac's for a year and a half, syncing all my e-mails and address's.
For some reason certain names it keeps changing. eg. "Dad" becomes "Dad, Dad". This then syncs to my iPhone. So I delete the second Dad from one machine or the iPhone and sync it and they all go back to normal. Later when writing an e-mail it will spontaneously change back and will flicker between one or the other if you keep deleting and re-typing "dad" in the TO field or CC field.
Also it will be fine and i will be out of the house and and my machines will be home and off and my dad will call or e-mail, and it will go from "Dad" which i have seen in my address book earlier that day to "Dad, Dad". It happened to loads of contacts when i added my iphone to the .mac sync list and but they were mostly rectified by editing the entries and waiting for the sync to resolve it.
Short of Just deleting and re-adding the affected ones I don't know what to do. Also the iPhone moved all the first names to last names for some reason. so i moved them back but some of them have remained.
Is this some sort of inherent incompatibility with OSX Address book and .mac? my point being that it can be corrupted on any client then synced with the rest.

I agree that once you have two people called 'Dave' it then becomes necessary to have a surname and in-fact I've started adding all new people with surnames. I am however unlikely to ever have more than one entry for 'Mum' or 'Dad'.
Also when you say the names are in the e-mail address even if you don't see it my friend Jacob who's e-mail address I've recently added is [email protected] and it hasn't attempted to add Lord or Ermintrude as his surname or Jacob as his surname it's just left it as is, yet every single time i communicate with my dad it f*cks around trying to decide whether his name is 'Dad' or 'Dad, Dad' (see original post)
I might just copy everything into a text file, delete everyone in the address book, sync it to all machines/iPhone, then add everyone one at a time back into address book and let in sync back to everything else.
This is definitely new to the last month or so.

How can I make Address Book show names as (Last-comma-First)?

Hi,
I tried to tack this onto an old thread, but I'll try here again. Is there a way to show names in the Address Book as "Last-comma-First."? I understand about switching Last/first but cannot seem to find a way to show with a comma. The addresses I imported from my other computer (windows-outlook express) came over with the comma, but how do I do it for new ones, if possible?
Thanks in advance
PowermacG5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Using a comma in the name display was something that Outlook Express did. Address Book does not put a comma in the display and simply shows LastName FirstName. I think you'll find the the export file from Outlook Express was a CSV file. Commas were used to separate all the field names. However, actual name values are not stored with a comma.

Address Book: I want new cards only in a intelligent group

I would like to have an intelligent group in my address book that groups cards with email addresses but only the ones I added after a certain date. I's clear how to set the group for cards with email addresses but I don't understand the function with the dates. I am sorry for the bad expressions I use here, but sometimes it's hard to translate them from german to english as I use the german version of address book.
Thanks for your help.

Greetings Patrick:
Your English is fine. My only correction is that we call them smart groups rather than intelligent groups.
Right now there isn't a way to make a smart group for cards added after a certain date, but you can make a smart group for cards edited after a date.
[ Card ] [ was updated after ] [ 2/8/2006 ]
for example.
That might help you find the cards you want.

Address Book, including names with Companies.

It seems like I should be able to print out companies with the associated contact person but it seems this app. doesn't allow that. Am I missing something or is it a terrible oversight? I'm trying to do a mailing list that is addressed to various people at their workplace.
The workaround I'm currently using has me selecting "Company" and including the contact name within the address field.

I haven't printed out labels, just the list of my Address contacts on several pages. But, the Contact name appears in the left column, the contact info in the middle, and the phone in the last column. This printing does not have the Business name followed by the contacts name as the Busi
Now thinking through this, I went through the exercise of making a PDF of
this info that I created as a sample in my Address Book:
"A Sample - Being the Company
Miss Jones - Being the Contacts name
mobile 999-xxx-xxxx
work [email protected]
home [email protected]
work 333ruthere (AIM)
work 894UV Boulevard - Business ADDRRESS
FunnyUAsk Delaware vwxyz-stuv
home 24 Thorobred Road - Home ADDRESS
Anywhere Colorado abcde-fghi
Note:"
After I created the PDF, it showed my own name, address, state, etc. as the return address and the A Sample as the Addressee.
Now, the Business would have to be the name on the Administrator of the Computer for this to work out, because that is the name that appears on the return address field, as thus:
"Business Name
Address
City St. Zip
A Sample
894UV Boulevard
FunnyUAsk, Delaware wxyz-stuv"
When you click on the word "Work" field in the Address Book, you will see a drop down menu with choices, and "Copy Mailing Label" is the middle choice.
But it is also on the out put when you check "Print" from the Address Book Menu under "File." When the Print Dialogue Box appears on your desktop, you will see toward the middle right side "Layout/Label/Orientation."
Choose "Label" and you will see your name (if you are using your personal computer, or the Administrators name/Company perhaps if you are using your companies computer.)
I see the Label section saying to choose(second choice under "Print my address", Addresses - All or home/work/other. Then Print in Alphabetical Order.
I am trying to get to my point the slow way, and I an trying to think through this to solve it.
I just unchecked the "Print my address" selection and my name from the Return Address field name is no longer present, only the Addressee.
"Miss Jones"(for example only) name doesn't appear in the Addressee's address below the Business Name unless she is listed in the Address Book as the Company as:
"Miss Jones
894UV Boulevard
FunnyUAsk, Delaware wxyz-stuv"
I am having a bit of a problem getting this solved. Did I shed any light on anything that may perhaps work at all? This is definitely a puzzler. Maybe something needs to be added to the Address Book fields or another function added.
I thought I was close, but I do not think so, Paula
iMac 1.9 GHz PowerPC G5 1.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM (Owned a Mac since 1984!) Mac OS X (10.4.6) Slot Loading 8X Dual Layer SuperDrive, iSight & Apple Remote; iPod Video

CAUTION-MAJOR BUG Address Book's "Merge Selected Cards" DELETES CONTENT!

I have just realized (after losing much data) that when using the Merge Selected Cards function within the Apple Address Book that it will, without notification, delete content! That's right, if the two cards share different data but have the same field labels, Address Book will merge the two and simply keep the content in the 1st record (deleting the content in the 2nd).
For example... Two records (same contact), one record with a home-email and home-number and one with a work-email and work-number. However since both happen to have default field labels of "email" and "number" when you select "Merge..." you don't end up with two emails/numbers in the merged contact you actually only have the content from the 1st record.
Essentially "Merge Selected Records" = "Delete 2nd Record"
This is a major error. The feature should be removed asap until it is corrected!!

This bug still affects the Address Book v5.0.3 which is updated with the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update which has just been released.
Apple have been notified of this bug as far back as November 2009.
There are at least 3 separate RADAR bug reports about this issue.
There have been 3 Mac OS Snow Leopard updates since the bug was reported to them. The bug has not been fixed in any of these updates.
The bug does not affect Address Book v5.0
It does affect Address Book v5.0.1
It does affect Address Book v5.0.2
It does affect Address Book v5.0.3
Apple were notified in November 2009 after Address Book v5.0.1 was released that this problem existed. We also told Apple customer support. We told the Apple Store Regent Street Geniuses. We emailed Apple Developer Bug Reporting and were initial told they were aware of it, then we received no more replies.
The original thread in the forums detailing this issue is now archived even though the bug remains. So we cannot reply and update that thread.
We suggest you try and make as many people at Apple aware of this issue as we think it is very poor that they are aware of a serious data loss bug for 12 months and havent rectified it in many software and Address Book app updates.
Edward
Equinox News Pictures Ltd.
+448700780000

Address book freezes and loses cards

While entering a new card, the address book froze and after forcing quit, all the cards were gone. Fortunately most were back-upped. Any ideas, an Intel virus perhaps, that's a joke.
Jim Easton
Power Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hi,
I followed your suggestions from the thread linked below, unfortunately it didn't do the trick... I just lost a no backup addressbook after the compter froze while entering a new contact. I'm hoping the corrupt/lost file is floating somewhere, waiting for me to dig it up. What do you think? Thanks!
G5 Dual 1.8gHz; Powerbook G4 1.5gHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Address Book - Last Name Keeps Repeating Itself!!!

This has happened for quite some time, and it affects the vCards of those whom I've sent mail to.
For e.g., the To: field in Mail shows an auto-complete of my name as "Douglas Dielle Dielle".
When I go to the address book, the vCard entry indeed is shown as "Douglas Dielle Dielle".
Address Book seems to be adding the extra last name to the last name field because I don't use that field for my contacts.
I've corrected this umpteen times in the Address Book by removing the last name in the last name field and it's still happening. Cleared the previous recipients list in Mail and it's still happening.
Is there some option in the Address Book that I should take a hard look at?

Reason because Entourage some time back had this problem on filling the fields correctly when synching from my PDA. Filling in only the first name was the way to circumvent the problem.
I don't use Entourage anymore, but have also not altered the name format of my contacts in my PDA though.
Hope Apple fixes this soon! (Mail version: 2.0.5 / 746/746.2)

Mail's Add to Address Book inverts name order in Address Book

Using Mail's 'Add to Address Book' function results in inverted first/last name order in Address Book: Under every combination of setting for 'show first name before/following last name' and 'sort by first/last name' in the AB prefs, using Mail's Add to Address Book on 'Bob Jones' results in 'Jones' in the first name field and 'Bob' in the last name field.
Are others also seeing this? Any workarounds?

Thanks for testing, Ernie. I double-checked my system using your settings and still saw the names in the wrong fields. Something must be off with my setup but I have no idea what it might be! If anyone can replicate this problem, maybe we can figure it out.

Changing address book field name with automator

can anyone advise how to change a field in multiple contacts using automator, ie i need to change either the 'work mobile', or 'home mobile' field to the simple 'mobile' so as to fix the phone book error i now have on my sony p900 since the recent 10.4.6 update rebuilt the phone version of my addressbook,
the mobile now will not recognise the changed fields as mobile phones but as land lines, making the sending of sms etc difficult.
As i have over 400 contacts this is a pain indeed....
any genius scripters out there who can both help and explain?
thanks
simon

Hi,
According to your description, the name of a address list container is changed through Exchange management tool. However, Outlook clients still show the old name.
In this case, I recommend you recreate a new profile to check the result. I test it and the address list updates in Outlook client only after I recreate the profile.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
Thanks,
Angela Shi
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