Address book edit problems

I am unable to edit address book contacts either from the pull down menu or the edit button on the contact. I looked around, repaired permissions, etc., coming up with no answers, any help?

I too am having this problem :/
Console says:
11/23/07 7:19:51 PM AddressBookSync[365] -[ABAddressBook save] failed.
11/23/07 7:19:51 PM AddressBookSync[365] -[ABAddressBook save] failed.
11/23/07 7:19:51 PM AddressBookSync[365] -[ABAddressBook save] failed.
11/23/07 7:19:51 PM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[361] 2007-11-23 19:19:51.044 AddressBookSync[365:10b] -[ABAddressBook save] failed.
11/23/07 7:19:51 PM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[361] 2007-11-23 19:19:51.048 AddressBookSync[365:10b] -[ABAddressBook save] failed.
11/23/07 7:19:51 PM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[361] 2007-11-23 19:19:51.071 AddressBookSync[365:10b] -[ABAddressBook save] failed.

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Hi, I have a BB Pearl and for some reason it wont let me add a new contact to my address book, it was working fine till today, any ideas anyone?

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Welcome to the Community
This has been an ongoing issue for Blackberry phones OS5 and below. Please check the link below:
Unable to edit or create new contacts on the BlackBerry Address Book
Ron
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Address Book "Edit" button grayed out...unable to edit

Had to edit a contact's info and was surprised to find the Edit button grayed out, not allowing me to click it. Repairing permissions has not helped.

V.K., thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, before I got to try it, I re-launched Address Book one more time and found it will no longer launch. Its Dock icon just keeps bouncing. Not only that, but I've also found that iCal and Mail will no longer launch, either. The iCal calendar pane and the Mail main window open, but the beach ball spins forever. I've never seen this before. Any ideas?
I tried a different account on the same computer. No problems there.

Address Book Edit Screen

All of a sudden in the EDIT screen for address book cards the colons between the subject type and the actual info has turned into an odd squiggle.
any one know how to get this back to the colon?
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Hi Asher,
please check this article out: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25398
In short, try to do the following:
1) try if you got the same problem in another user
2) if not, delete or move your com.apple.AddressBook.plist from your users' ~Library/Preferences folder (restart afterwards)
3) delete or move your users' ~Library/Caches folder
4) delete or move your users' ~Library/Fonts folder
!! Fiddling with the Library files can cause problems, so only do what I wrote above and do NOT start deleting or moving other files !!

Address book ldap problems

Hi. My organization uses a domain controller server on port 3268 for ldap/GAL access. In the past I have had intermitant problems accessing the GAL through address book and the mail app. The last time this happened I trashed some pref files and got it working again. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, it is not working again. I've tried trashing various plist files, but none have seemed to help. I've been doing this over the last few weeks so I can't specifically list which plist files I've tried.
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It is a Outlook 2003 problem.. the way around it is:
Open registry editor.
a. Find the following registry key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook
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c. Input "ldap" and press Enter key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\LDAP
1.Edit --> New -->[DWORD]
6. Input "NoDisplayNameSearch" ane press Enter key.
7. Right click the above and click "change".
8. Input "1" to [data value] and press [OK]
9. Edit --> New -->[DWORD]
10.Input "DisableVLVBrowsing" and press Enter key
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Repopulating itunes, address book, network problems, recovered data - help

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This is a multi-topic question:
I had a dying HD. Used Install DVD/Disc Utilities to repair, then upgraded to Snow Leopard right after. When I rebooted, everything was gone. I had a new start-up disk/username account and no sign of the previous Home/Username. I used Disk Warrior and recovered all my files (I think). Moving things back in place is a challenge. Many problems.
1. How do I move all my iTunes music back to the current Username?
2. Where do I find the Address Book Data and how do I move that back the the current username?
3. I cannot connect to the internet. Network diagnostics says "Internet failed, server failed" both wirelessly via Airport and when I connect via ethernet. My other Macs have no problems with the internet so it is something internal with this Mac.
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They said that MobileMe has a problem working with iTunes backup.
MobileMe has nothing to do with the iPhone's backup. Contacts are included with your iPhone's backup, which is updated by iTunes as the first step with the iTunes sync process, but this is used when restoring an iPhone with iTunes from the iPhone's backup only. This has nothing to do with syncing contacts direct with a supported application on your computer or over the air with a MobileMe or Exchange account.
Time Machine only keeps one backup and so once it backs up your copy of your address book, you're screwed.
Baloney. Time Machine keeps:
Hourly backups for the last 24 hours.
Daily backups for the past month.
Weekly backups for all previous months.
You can go back in time to where your Address Book contacts are available with your Time Machine backup and restore from that.
Besides my Time Machine backup, I also use the MobileMe backup app to automatically backup my Address Book and iCal data on a weekly basis, and before I make any significant changes to my Address Book contacts - adding, deleting, or editing, I manually backup my Address Book data - at the menu bar go to File > Export > Address Book Archive. I have 3 backups for this data since the data is very important to me.
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Address book edits

My address book will not accept edits.
When I type in a new email address for one of my contacts, close the address book, then open it again, the new address is not there. It's still the old address.
What now?

Hi all,
I've got a very similar problem. I edit an Address Book card by trying to swap the first two telephone numbers round. The first is a mobile number say 111, while the second is a "home" number say 222. I add a third phone number field and do the following cut & paste actions (showing the start situation):-
mobile: 111
home: 222
mobile: 111
home: 222
work:
mobile:
home: 222
work: 111
mobile: 222
home:
work: 111
mobile: 222
home: 111
work:
mobile: 222
home: 111
home: 222
mobile: 111
After clicking the Edit button to finish the edit, my change is undone! If before clicking the Edit button, I select another card for editing and then return to the first, the change is also undone. I thought the problem might have been something to do with the fact that my address book is published for another .mac user so I removed the check option in the Preferences, General, "Synchronize my contacts with other computers using .Mac". However, this didn't fix the problem.
I can add new contacts but cannot change their phone numbers around as desired. I can swap City for Postal code (in a Duch address format!)
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~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ABPerson.skIndexInverted
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ABSubscribedPerson.skIndexInverted
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data.previous
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
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Address book editing

When I go to address book and try to edit an address with many names the select box is not placed "over" the list of names but to the right and it is impossible to select the whole name to correct or omit. Very strange, as this problem did not occur when I started my relationship with Apple Mail.
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Seebie

Seebie,
I think you're not clicking the "Edit" button at the bottom of the window.
In the "Name" list (center column in Address Book) click on the entry you want to edit, then select "Edit" at the bottom. You should be able to edit then.

Address Book Syncing Problems and Won't Restore

I sync address book between two computers using .mac, and also publish it for another family member to use. This was working fine under Tiger, but I've recently noticed some issues in Leopard. Occasionally, instead of merging records, it will double them up. This morning, I noticed I had twice as many contacts as I should. For some reason, it added my entire .mac address book again back to my computer. Other times it had done that with only a few of the contacts.
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I finally fixed my doubled contacts problem by doing a one way sync from my second computer (which had not yet been affected by this) to .mac and then a one way sync from .mac to my laptop. I then turned off .mac syncing.
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the backup archive shows 6 MB.
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if i quit and restart address book, the original version of the address book is still there. apparently unable to import address book.
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Address Book Sync Problems in Office Enviroment

I am a bit of a Mac newbie so pleas excuse any obvious questions
Problem: the network has about 10 macs running a mix of Tiger and Leopard. They have an address book (about 1200 contacts) set up on .mac (mobileme now I guess) and are having severe syncing issues.
A user will go in and update a contact and then exit. A different user will then go in and update or add a different contact and then the edit made by the other user disapears.
Obviously this is some sort of syncing issue. But I really don't know how to fix it.
Is it a problem between tiger and leopard or what? should they be having that many computers sync with one address book?
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Maybe give Addresss Book Server (http://www.addressbookserver.com) a try. I am the developer and have been working on a solution for this problem for some time. Address Book Server let's you distribute your contacts and sync with your own Address Book Server running locally on your network. It support sharing your entire Address Book or a selection of groups. The enterprise edition available for free support SSL for off-site users, as well as provides a friendly web interface to access your contacts remotely or from non-Mac clients.
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ALL ICLOUD ADDRESS BOOK EDITS DON'T SAVE

Any and all changes I make to Address Book Entries are rejected, both on my MacBook desktop and on iCloud.com.
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On iCloud.com, any Edits I make give me the error "your changes to this contact couldn't be saved because of a server error".
Edits made on iPhone/iPad work, but don't seem to sync to iCloud.com or desktop Address Book.
All other iCloud sync items (iCal, Bookmarks, Mail, Photo Stream, etc.) seem to work just fine.
I have signed out of iCloud on my MacBook entirely, thus deleting all iCloud data from my computer, and let it repopulate from the iCloud servers; the same problems persist.

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Address book sync problem

I had uploaded my IMAC address book to my new itouch. But because of some problems in the address book (lots of quotes around # and email), I had to fix that (using Excel's trim and clean functions. On the IMAC, I deleted all the contacts in the address book and then uploaded the contacts from the cleaned and trimmed address book fields. It loaded fine.
But when I tried a sync, it actually goes to what appears another account (my wife's) and loads that. I can't seem to get to to sync to my new address book. How do I force a sync?
John

On October 18, 2007—with less than 24 hours notice for most users—Apple announced that .Mac synchronization services would change substantially to accommodate Panther users. Here is the text of that notice, which many users apparently did not receive:
"Dear .Mac member:
Due to improvements being made to .Mac Sync on October 19, 2007, please note the following changes.
Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger users:
To ensure uninterrupted service, you must be using Mac OS X version 10.4.10. To check which version you’re running, select About This Mac in the Apple menu. If you are not running version 10.4.10, click the Software Update button and install the update to 10.4.10.
Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther users:
To accommodate new enhancements, .Mac Sync will no longer support syncing of calendars between a Panther-based Mac and a Mac running Tiger or Leopard. Syncing calendars between Mac computers running Panther is unaffected.
These changes will help enable .Mac Sync to do more than ever. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for being a .Mac member.
That was ten days ago, and .Mac synchronization services are still undergoing 'maintenance.' There is not announced date by which stable, familiar service will be restored.
You can check the main page of .Mac to determine when the amber LED labeled Sync returns to green, or survey the this forum for information about service restoration. You'll see a previously updated status note at the top of the forum change when service is restored.

Address Book Sync Problems - 8530 and Outlook 2007

This has been a nagging problem for me for quite some time. Here's my current status:
Curve 8530 on Verizon Wireless
Access to Corporate resources and email via BES
I also access Gmail from the device
Right now I am not synching over the air - that has never worked. I'm using Desktop Manager, and recently downgraded to Version 5.01. When I connect the device and configure for Address Book sync the application starts the process, then craps out without synching. I've rebooted the PC, reloaded the application without success.
And right now the device's address book is blank. Any ideas?

Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
Given that you are on BES, why in the world are you putting up with it's non-functionality? With BES, you should be receiving Over the Air (OTA) sync of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, etc...no need whatsoever to synchronize to Outlook via USB tether. If that is not working, then you should do one of two things:
1) Talk to your BES admins and have them get it working properly for you...you are missing a lot!!!
-- OR --
2) Talk to your carrier about changing your data plan and dropping BES -- you are paying extra for a service that you cannot even use!!
Once you decide which path you wish to pursue, let us know.
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Address book sync problem: Phone #s & emails missing fr. iPhone

When I sync, I overwrite the iPhone address book and calendar with the one on my computer. I choose 'Replace information on this iPhone.'
Suddenly, none of the emails or phone numbers are showing up in the address book records on the iPhone. All the records are there, they're just missing the phone #s and emails. The phone numbers and emails are on the computer version of Address book, and other changes in the name and notes fields for each record are showing up.
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