Address Book dropping addresses

I have noticed over the past year but thought I was hallucinating that my Address Book loses some entire contacts after I backup, I believe. I've excluded the usual culprits, I updated, reinstalled the OS but it happens frequently.
The only pattern I notice is tat I use the Phew backup program to backup. Maybe that's it. Has anyone had trouble with it?
Can someone recommend a backup that works well and includes preferences, preferably free?

That's the reason I left Comcrap. Never a solution. Never a straight answer. Always blaming some one else.

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ICloud Address Book iMac Address Book?

Why does my iCloud Address Book have 80 contacts while my iMac Address Book has 182? There's no obvious pattern in the dropped entries. Seems like iCloud just dropped a random bunch of cards.
Any ideas?

Sometimes it's just the simple things. Went into System Preferences > iCloud, unchecked contacts, re-checked contacts. My iMac, my Air, & my iCloud now have the same contacts again.
Thanks for the reminder. : )
Take care.

HT4489 How can I synchronize contacts between Apple Address Book/iPhone address book and Outlook (I'm on Mac OX10.7.4 and using Office 2011)?

I appear to have done what I should to move to iCloud on my Mac, MacbookAir, iPhone and iPad. Using Outlook 2011 on the iMac and unable to sync contacts between Outlook and my Apple Address Book and iPhone over the cloud. I gather lots of people have the same problem but some appear to have solved it... any ideas?
Also, in some sync, I managed to duplicate the entries on the Address Book on my Mac, whereas the iCloud Address Book is ok. How can I replace the Address Book on my computer with the one on iCloud?
Thank You for any help!

Hi Lucy, I had the same problem with Outlook data sync. Once you've enabled iCloud all your contacts are moved to iCloud and are no longer stored on Mac, that's why Outlook cannot reach them - there is simply nothing to reach as data physically stored in cloud.
I use SyncMate to solve this problem. This app allows connecting and syncing numerous devices and accounts with your Mac and they have recently added iCloud into this list (here the page where they describe sync with iCloud http://www.sync-mac.com/cloud-sync.html ).
This is how I established sync of my Outlook data with iCloud via this app.
1. SyncMate syncs only that data which is located on your Mac so you will need to move your contacts back to Address Book on mac from iCloud and disable iCloud for contacts (in order they were stored on Mac, not in iCloud).
2. You install SyncMate and add iCloud as a new connection (depending on data you want to sync you need to choose "Cloud contacts" or "Cloud calendars" connection in SyncMate wizard and log into your iCloud via SyncMate). Once you've done this, you can sync data on Mac with iCloud via SyncMate.
3. I may assume that automatic sync option is enabled in Outlook preferences (as previously your contacts on Mac were synced with Outlook). If no - please, enable it (got to Outlook preferences).
4. Once all this done, data will be automatically synced betwen Outlook and iCloud (latter via SyncMate). The trick of SyncMate is that data is physically located on your Mac (thus ensuring it will be synced with other devices and accounts SyncMate supports, as I said before, SyncMate works with data which is located on Mac), but you still can have it in iCloud (sync will be performed via SyncMate, no need to enable iCloud itself).
5. And of course, you will be able to sync your iPhone contacts with your Mac (SyncMate supports sync with iPhones also). These contacts will be also synced to Outlook.

In address book, display address or other columns

I cannot figure out how to display additional fields/columns in address book. I can adjust size of existing fields but adding new fields is a puzzler.

Thanks so much. I guess I was clicking on the right mouse button, not the left.
Jim

Address Book multiple addresses, some blank?

Since switching to iCloud, I discovered I had triplicate email addresses for every single contact. A number of contacts retained a name, but all other contact was missing? Aside from deleting two of every three contacts, is there anything I can do to recover my lost contact info?

Thank you, V.K. The good news is that the group is large and the email addresses are hidden in the BCC field so Jane won't know that I have two entries for her in my address book. (And yes, I know I could call them both "Jane Doe" but at some point I would probably shoot myself in the foot by deleting the duplicate without realizing why it's there.)
I was surprised that whoever coded Address Book and/or Mail didn't use the usual convention of being able to select multiple entries in a list. This would be a nice enhancement for a future release; it's really not that unusual for someone to request that mail be routinely sent to both a home and work email address.

Outlook Connector - Address book - Global Address List

Using Outlook Connector version 7.2.402.1 on both Outlook 2003 and 2007 I am having an issue when trying to view the Global Address List. The vertical scroll bar doesn't activate unless I resize my Address Book window. Even after that it doesn't work that well. It is very erratic.
I have set up a VLV index for the Address book as follows:
dn: cn=outlook_connector_browsing_index,cn=xyz,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
cn: outlook_connector_browsing_index
objectclass: top
objectclass: vlvSearch
vlvbase: o=xyz.edu,dc=xyz,dc=edu
vlvfilter: (&(mail=*)(cn=*))
vlvscope: 2
dn: cn=Sort cn,cn=outlook_connector_browsing_index,cn=xyz,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
cn: Sort cn
objectclass: top
objectclass: vlvIndex
vlvenabled: 1
vlvsort: cn
Doing a tail -f on the access log while using the Address Book I can see the VLV index being used. Is there something buggy with the Outlook Connector or is there something I missed in the VLV index?
Thanks,
Scott

karl.rossing wrote:
It does not seem to work with SSL connections. When Outlook starts up, I get an error that it cannot connect the address book server.I was able to find the following that may be a cause for your problem:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Connector+for+Microsoft+Outlook+7.3+Release+Notes
6228253 : Login to Address Book server fails through Outlook.
Users are unable to log into the Address Book server though Outlook if the Address Book (in Communications Express) is in SSL mode.
Workaround: Open Communications Express within Internet Explorer and permanently accept the self-signed certificate.In this case instead of Communications Express, you would log into Convergence using the SSL path (https://server.domain.com/iwc) and permanently accept the certificate.
Regards,
Shane.

Address Book: All addresses gone

Happy day today (uggg).....open up address book (as an APP, or within Mail program). All addresses gone.
I do have a 3 month old BACK UP which I can use in desperation. But before I do, any thoughts on how to recover the current address book?
JON

It sure seems to be gone.
An A& I then updateing again may prevent some future problem, just not sure what the cause is.
Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Just be sure to select Preserve Users & Settings.
>So, what are the two links, Memtest, and Rember, do?? I have not gone there yet.
They're 2 apps that work together & do a better test of the RAM.Memory.

Printing "child" names from Address Book on address labels

When I put selected "child" names on Address Books entries and try to print address labels including the kid's names, they don't appear. Example: I add "Jim" as a child name to an Address Book entry for Mike Jones. I try to print the Address Label: Mike Jones and Jim. Jim will not print. "JI" will print. "Jimm" will print. Anybody else have this problem? What's going on?

From another thread:
If you have a spouse or child listed on contact card it will print them all on the mailing label IF the first name of each person is unique to your entire address book. For example, if the contact is John Brown and the spouse is listed as Susan Brown and the child is listed as Chester Brown, the expectation is that the label would print as:
John, Susan and Chester Brown
This assumes that there are no other contacts in your address book with the first name of Susan or Chester. However, if, for example, you have another person in your contact list named Susan (the last name could be anything), Address Book will print:
John and Chester Brown
This is because Address Book looks at all the first names in your contact list and if it sees a first name that is also listed in one of the spouse or child fields then it looks to see if the the other contact shares the same address as the contact you are trying to print. If the address is the same, then it prints properly on the label. If not, then it doesn't print on the label. So if you have two Susans - Susan Anderson and Susan Brown - Address book looks at the address on each card and determines that Susan Brown has the same address as the contact you are trying to print (John Brown) and therefore prints her name on the label.
So, to make a long story short, if you want consistent and predictable results when printing your labels you should assign a unique card to each person that you want to appear on the label and make sure that the individual cards have the same address listed on each. So, in the above example, there would be a card for John Brown, a card for Susan Brown, and a card for Chester Brown. On John Brown's card, Susan Brown would be listed as spouse and Chester Brown would be listed as child. Print John Brown's card and you should get:
John, Susan and Chester Brown
Although this makes logical sense, it's not incredibly intuitive and not very well documented by Apple. I was hoping they would enhance Address Book in Leopard since this seems like a feature that a lot of people would use around this time of year. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case this time around.

Address book email addresses don't get removed

When I write a new email, old, deleted email addresses for people still appear as addressee options. Why are they still listed when they have been deleted from the Address Book?

They are still listed in previous recipients if you have ever sent an email to that address.
Mail > Menubar > Window > Previous recipients.
Remove them from there.
Have fun
S.

Importing new Address Book into Address Book but keeping it separate.

I have an existing Address Book on my MacBook Pro and would like to import my office Address Book - BUT keep it as a separate group. The office Address Book has over 1,000 names so it is a lot of work to import it and then, one by one, find, separate and add the names to a New Group. Is there a way to import the new Address Book directly into its own Group?
Both Address Books are Apple.
I understand that the new names will be a part of my existing Address Book when I am in the ALL Group.

Well you are correct - you cannot import into .Mac mail.
What you can do is import your .csv file into Address Book on a Mac and then Sync that Address Book with your .Mac information.
In Address Book the Import function is under the File menu.
To Sync use the .Mac preference pane in System Preferences.
HTH,
Steve

Address Book - email address sorting

My own entry in my address book has 11 email addresses (I added most of them after they were automatically added to separate entries). The one that appears on the top is the one I want to appear on the bottom. How do I tell Address Book to keep them in a particular order?

I've never used the TrueSwitch software, but I've never had to. You can export your contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, etc. into a .csv file and import them directly to your verizon.net account. If you log into your verizon.net account and go to your contacts list there's an Import Contacts button.
If you need any assistance with that process let me know, I can try to provide a step-by-step for your client.
As for sorting by name, this functionality does not appear to be available in the "Basic Interface" of Verizon's webmail. Switching to the "Rich Interface" causes the name to be displayed in a Last, First format and sorting by name is an option.
Hope this helps!
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Address book unknown addresses

Can someone tell me why I am getting people's names in my address book that I have never heard of?
Thanks . BGE

Have you added them as "Buddies" in iChat? If no one here can help you figure it out, there is a Mail & Address Book forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=753
-Doug

Address book -- exporting addresses

Does anyone know how to export e-mail addressses from the address book so that they can be used in gmail?
Thanks!
susan

yes there is a really nice easy way
1.Simply select all your contacts in address book. Drag them to the desktop and it makes a single vcard.
visit this cool little webpage http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/
2.On that webpage, choose the file that was created in Step 1, select the format "Gmail (CSV)" and then hit convert. It will then download to your desktop the csv version of the vcard you imported. With a lot of contacts this may take a while, and i tried unchecking the "vCards with e-mail only" option and it failed to import them. but other than that it works a treat.
3.Go to Gmail, log in and choose contacts. Then choose import. Select the csv file created in Step 2. Hey presto!

Address book disappearing addresses

I spent hours entering addresses from Now Contact and also typing in phone numbers from my cell phone iinto the Mac Address Book. About 2/3 of the way into the process the address book window flickered a little and all information was gone. I thought it was auto saving? Is there any way to get it back?
TIA

Welcome to the discussions, hmcc.
Sometimes this works:
Quit Address Book.
In folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook drag file AddressBook.data to the desktop. Rename AddressBook.data.previous to AddressBook.data and restart AB. If your contacts are not back quit AB again and repeat the drag/rename process, this time with AddressBook.data.beforesave.
AK

Address Book-Same Address Again and Again

I am trying to figure out how to NOT to retype the address for several contacts at the same company address. Not finding any help yet in address book help.
Any suggestions?
TIA

If the additional contacts do not yet exist, copy the one that does and paste to make duplicates, then change the personal details.
If they do already exist, there is no shortcut that I know of to do it. You could copy the mailing label from one and paste it in another, but everything will go into the first address field. If there were a lot to do you could write a little applescript for it. Unless you are planning to produce address abels at some stage, why bother? Just note the company name.
AK

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