Address Book expert needed!

Is it possible within the Mail program to take an email address list for a group email (such as all neighbors, all family members, etc.) directly from an email using a "Select All" command or the like, and then paste that list of individual email addresses all at once into a new email group that I could name? In my case, I am receiving an email from someone in our neighborhood to everyone else in the neighborhood including me; instead of importing each of my neighbor's email addresses into Address Book separately, I'm figuring there's got to be a faster way to the same job with all address at the same time, using a single command. Anybody have the answer? Thanks!

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Address Book Problem - need help.

I can not view Address Book. Just had it opened this morning. Now when I click on icon, nothing is viewable. Top navigation reflects address book is opened though. Tried different view options but nothing works. Also shut down and reopened. But that didn't work either. Any suggestions?

Problem solved.

Sharing contacts in Address Book through iCloud

I work in an office where the contacts in our Address Book App. need to be shared with multiple users over multiple computers/devices. We currently have all of our contacts in the Address Book App. but whenever a new contact is added we need to physically transfer it to each machine. Ultimately, we need to accomplish 3 tasks:
1. We need to be able to create, edit, and share contacts on and between multiple computers/devices/accounts. Access is needed by all employees, including our boss.
2. Some of our contacts need to be kept private, (not shared across all machines) associated with a single account. These are our bosses private contacts that are included in the mass of our current Address Book App.
3. Do all of this in iCloud
Is it possible to share groups in Address Book over iCloud while keeping other groups private from sharing. Of course, these private entries would still need to be accessible through iCloud by our boss. I've read threads explaining that setting up a "Family Account" alongside individual accounts allows one to share contacts through the "Family Account" while keeping contacts in the individual accounts private. It seems though that this solution has its issues.
If there is an efficient and effective way of doing this, please share!
Thank you in advance!

If iCloud can figure this out Google is toast. Hope someone from Apple monitors these discussions.

What is the smallest data structure record in a .TXT file record to be recognized as an Apple Address Book "Data Card"?

Hello! This is my first time in this discussion group. The question posed is the subject line itself:
What is the smallest data structure record in a .TXT file record to be recognized as an Apple Address Book "Data Card"?
I'm lazy! As a math instructor with 40+ students per class per semester (pCpS), I would rather not have to create 40 data cards pCpS by hand, only to expunge that info at semester's end. My college's IS department can easily supply me with First name, Last name, and eMail address info, along with a myriad of other fields. I can manipulate those data on my end to create the necessary .TXT file, but I don't know the essential structure of that file.
Can you help me?
Thank you in advance.
Bill

Hello Bill, & welcome aboard!
No idea what pCpS is, sorry.
To import a text file into Address Book, it needs to be a comma delimited .csv file, like...
Customer Name,Company,Address1,Address2,City,State,Zip
Customer 1,Company 1,2233 W Seventh Street,Unit 543,Seattle,WA,99099
Customer 2,Company 2,1 Park Avenue,,New York,NY,10001
Customer 3,Company 3,65 Loma Linda Parkway,,San Jose,CA,94321
Customer 4,Company 4,89988 E 23rd Street,B720,Oakland,CA,99899
Customer 5,Company 5,432 1st Avenue,,Seattle,WA,99876
Customer 6,Company 6,76765 NE 92nd Street,,Seattle,WA,98009
Customer 7,Company 7,8976 Poplar Street,,Coupeville,WA,98976
Customer 8,Company 8,7677 4th Ave North,,Seattle,WA ,89876
Customer 9,Company 9,4556 Fauntleroy Avenue,,West Seattle,WA,98987
Customer 10,Company 10,4 Bell Street,,Cincinnati,OH,89987
Customer 11,Company 11,4001 Beacon Ave North,,Seattle,WA,90887
Customer 12,Company 12,63 Dehli Street,,Noida,India,898877-8879
Customer 13,Company 13,63 Dehli Street,,Noida,India,898877-8879
Customer 14,Company 14,63 Dehli Street,,Noida,India,898877-8879
Customer 15,Company 15,4847 Spirit Lake Drive,,Bellevue,WA,98006
Customer 16,Company 16,444 Clark Avenue,,West Seattle,WA,88989
Customer 17,Company 17,6601 E Stallion,,Scottsdale,AZ,85254
Customer 18,Company 18,801 N 34th Street,,Seattle,WA,98103
Customer 19,Company 19,15925 SE 92nd,,Newcastle,WA,99898
Customer 20,Company 20,3335 NW 220th,2nd Floor,Edmonds,WA,99890
Customer 21,Company 21,444 E Greenway,,Scottsdale,AZ,85654
Customer 22,Company 22,4 Railroad Drive,,Moclips,WA,98988
Customer 23,Company 23,89887 E 64th,,Scottsdale,AZ,87877
Customer 24,Company 24,15620 SE 43rd Street,,Bellevue,WA,98006
Customer 25,Company 25,123 Smalltown,,Redmond,WA,98998
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Address Book won't "appear"

When I try to open address book, it doesn't show. Command/Tab shows the program open, but the book doesn't show and Address Book wont show in menu bar.
Console Log entry states;
2006-03-09 11:00:25.899 Address Book[934] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: * -[ABTextView setFont:]: nil NSFont given.
I disabled some duplicate fonts awhile back and suspect that this may have something to do with this. Does anyone know which font address book may need to open? Thanks- Jeff

Jeff,
Since you asked: I disabled some duplicate fonts awhile back and suspect that this may have something to do with this. Does anyone know which font address book may need to open?I would predict that you did more than just disabled some fonts, but in any case, Kurt Lang has an excellent treatise called Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther, which may help answer your question.
;~)

ICal & Address Book to Outlook 2003

At home, I use iCal and Address Book. This is where I manage my calendar, contacts, etc. I sync it all to .Mac and my iPhone.
At work, I use Outlook 2003. However, it is a government Exchange server, and thus it cannot be accessed from home other than through webmail.
Thus, I'm in a bind. I manage my information in iCal and Address Book, but need to also be able to--at minimum--view that data in Outlook 2003 from my government system. The ability to write or syncronize data from Outlook is definitely important, but not nearly as crucial as at least being able to view the data.
Right now, I can view my data through my iPhone, but that's not a very comfortable or flexible approach when working in the office. Also, government networks are restricted from accessing many outside services, so viewing through .Mac's web UI is also not an option.
If I export from iCal, I get a .ICS file. Is there any way -- even manually -- to get this imported into Outlook 2003?
2003 cannot subscribe to an iCal, and as best I can figure out right now, it can't import a .ICS file either.
Of course, government computers cannot have 3rd party software installed, so I have to have a way of doing this with standard Microsoft Office Professional, or a Web-based application that can generate and download to me any files necessary for importing.
I thought of having iCal and Microsoft Entourage (also on my home system) sync that data, and doing the export from Entourage -- presuming of course that Entourage and Outlook would speak nicely with each other. Big assumption I guess. I just realized that an export from Entourage uses the .RGE format -- not the .PST that Outlook uses. So I can't even do THAT to then import into Outlook either.
Unless anyone has some other suggestions, I would guess there's nothing I can do until the government systems are upgraded to Outlook 2007, which if I hear correctly, can subscribe to an iCalendar feed (minus to-do's, etc.)
Am I up the creek on this one?
dt

I don't know if you can sync on a government computer... my husband got around this similar situation by syncing his iPod Touch to his school computer (where he has Outlook 2003, and can only access via webmail outside of school), and having the iPod Touch also sync with Mobile Me (formerly .Mac) when away from work.
So far this is working for us as we needed a common calendar & shared contacts between his school events, my school events & personal events. (My computer syncs right with Mobile Me.) Perhaps this doesn't work in your situation as I'm not familiar with a government Exchange server...

Outlook 2010 address book prompt out hen trusted program try to send email through Outlook 2010

Dear all,
My program will send email through Outlook 2010(in cache mode). Sometime it may prompt the address book out and pend here, and we need to manually click "OK" to let the program run again. Although we re-write the program in
Java and send by JavaMail now, but we are interested why the address book will prompt out.
There are no pattern that we can guess the reason. Different recipient, different subject/content/have attachment or not can casue the address book prompt. But same email with same content/everythings may not cause prompt before and/or after.
We try to change to offline address book and need manual sync, problem still occur.
Just for interest~
Cyrus
[Sorry that MSDN not allow me to upload the cap screen :( ]

Firstly, there is no such thing as a "trusted program" to Outlook. It only trusts COM addins, all other applications will cause a security prompt unless you have an up-to-date anti-virus app installed (if you can control the client environment).
See http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=52 for the list of your options. Essentially it is either installing an antivirus product or using a library such as
Redemption (accessible from Java) or a utility such as
ExpressClickYes.
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Add new remote address book

I am trying to add a new ldap address book in communications express
Can somebody help me with a sample to start with this.
The below is a sun document explaining basic steps for reference:
Currently I have personal address book and corporate directory shown in the drop down list. When we select the corporate directory all users for that hosted domain is listed correctly. And in PAB all contacts entered in outlook contacts is listed. Now we want to add new book that will point the root of ldap to list all users accross all hosted domian.
I hope this is possible. Thanks in advance
SUN DOC:
Corporate Address Book
For corporate and remote address books a corresponding xxx instance should exist in the personalstore.properties file. The value of db.xxx.urlmatch in personalstore.properties file should be assigned the value of bookremoteurl attribute present in defaultps.xml file.
To add a new remote address book, you need to add the following items:
Steps
Add a new book node in defaultps.xml file
Add a new xxx instance in personalstore.properties file.
Create a directory under WEB-INF/config to store the db_config.properties and xlate files.
Note �
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Don't want to sync with address book AND entourage

I've had a dormant copy of Entourage on my computer for some time now, and ever since the new iPhone upgrade, my phone keeps syncing the Entourage address book with the iPhone/Apple address book. I want to keep Entourage on my computer (have some emails saved) but where can I change a setting so it stops asking me to review conflicts in Entourage/Address book?
Thanks!

If you do not want the iphone to sync with the entrouage address book, you need to turn off syncing in the entrouage preferences.
1. open entrouage
2. open entrouage preferences
3. go to sync services section on the left.
4. uncheck whatever you do not want entrouage syncing with.
This will stop entrouage syncing with that particular program (like address book).
If you want to stop the iphone from syncing with your address book program, you need to go into the info tab when the iphone is connected and uncheck sync contacts.
However, keeping an copy of your contacts on the computer that you can back up is always a good idea.
Hope this helps.

Need a real expert...I can't sync macbook air address book to iphone

running 10.7.5
1. I have an Address Book in my MacbookAir Dock and it has a lot of contacts in it.
2. Tryed to sync them to my iphone going through normal steps and no contacts transfer to iphone.
3. Tried to do it manually...in MacbookAir I went to:    finder / home / application support / (BUT...no Address Book in there)
4. Went to a backup disc and found an Address Book file in Application Support of my backup....tried to copy it and a pop-up said I'm "not authorized" to make this copy.
Any help would be appreciated...Ken

modular747...I appreciate your help...but before I wrote my inquiry I did the 'normal syncing steps' and nothing happened.
1. Opened up my iTunes on my macbook.
2. Plugged my phone into my macbook.
3. In iTunes (on my Macbook):   Found my iphone/device in my iTunes on my macbook and clicked on it.
4. In iTunes (on my Macbook):   Clicked on Info in iTunes
5. In iTunes (on my Macbook):   Clicked on Sync Contacts....then clicked on Sync.
6. My macbook went through a short process like it downloaded contacts but when I open up contacts on my iPhone there are no contacts.
These are the 'normal steps' that I had already done.....if I'm clueless let me know.
Thanks....Ken

I Need to build a database/booking and dispatch system that intergrates with iCal, Address Book and all Apple device's What would be the best Way.

Hi
Can anyone give me some useful information on the best ways to design and build a database/booking & dispatch system that can be intergrated through ical, address book and available on my macbook, ipad & iphone and all accessed through icloud.
I started my own chauffuer Service a year ago as an independent. it's becoming a massive bore that most of my time is spent taking down information, checking if i am available for clients and with alot of diary checking and repeatative entries and email ping pong and invoicing, what i want to do is concerntrate on advertising and marketing and using my time off for R & R
What i would like to do is access my information in an app and automate most of the processes like
assigning the job to the client with intergration through iCal and Address Book
be able to email confirmation through mail with an invoice produced through numbers or excel
payment is already done through payleven mobile and must be done in person so i'd rather keep that seperate to all processes apart from a tick box to say it has been paid for.
I have been looking at all options FileMaker, Bento, Automator, Apple Script. to be frank im no expert and am a little confused as to what to do any advice would be greatly recieved.

Hi,
I would suggest that is going to be an involved and complex process.
I would personally look into some of the invoicing and time scheduling software available and see if any fit your needs.
Take a look here: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/30/app-roundup-timekeeping-and-billing/
and here: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/31/app-roundup-timekeeping-and-billing-part-ii-the-q uickening/
for starters.
Best wishes
John M

Need to sync contacts from an old Desktop address book on Bold 9650

Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but here goes!
I have a user with a Bold 9650 that has two Desktop address books on their device:
- 1 from the old enterprise activation at a previous company that we saved and restored
- 1 from the current activation that is correctly syncing with Exchange
For the old one, they want to pull in about 800 contacts sitting there and get them syncing with Exchange.
Quesiton is how do I do this? I can't seem to back up the book and restore it over the current, and I can't otherwise seem to access it in a way to do this. I know there must be a way, so any hints would be great!
Desktop 6 is installed on their system, and I do have admin access to the BES Server, etc if need be.

Hard Reset the new Treo so it's completely erased. Perform a HotSync, and when Palm Desktop asks you to "Create a New Account, or use an Existing One?" choose "Existing" and pick the HotSync name of your old data.
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I upgraded to Snow Leopard, made a change to Address Book that I need to correct, tried to use Time Machine to find the prior version and it keeps pulling up the later ones info. How do I use Time Machine to restore Address Book from a few hours ago?

This morning, I upgraded to Snow Leopard from v10.5.8. Then, I exported 11 contacts from our old Now Contact database, intending to import that info into Address Book. It was an experiment, as we have 1199 contacts in 20+ categories and want to eventually get them into Bento from Address Book. The export automatically created a file called Export.vcf on the desktop, after I highlighted the 11 contacts. I tried to look at the info, but when clicked it opens Address Book, which then simply asked if I wanted to import the 11 contacts to it. I clicked yes. Then in checking Address Book 7, not 11 contacts appeared. I clicked on "All Contacts" and there were 1630. We only have 1199, so where did the extra 400+ come from? Since I had already clicked twice on the Address Book window, I couldn't undo the import. So I thought 'Ok, I'll trash Address Book and go to Time Machine, find Address Book, go to right after the upgrade to SL, hit Restore and bingo. Nope. I keep getting the post-import info, not pre. Con someone direct me to a solution? I want to get rid of the import contacts plus the extra 300 or so ( I already had a hundred or so in several categories)? Then, I need to figure out (1) why ALL the old records were exported from Now Contact, (2) where they were hiding in that .vcf file when Address Book recognized that I only wanted to export 11, (3) why Address Book showed only 7 imports in the "Last Import" group, but showed ALL my contacts in the "All Contact" group, even though they should nearly all have been safely untouched in the Now Contact DBase file. PS, I am not especially computer savvy. Thanks for any enlightenment.

Booting From Snow Leopard Installer Disc
1. Insert Snow Leopard Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
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1. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
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Need Help with fixing our Address book in Lync 2013 (cert issue?)

Updated our external (digicert) certificate last month. Tried doing it with the Certificate wizard but it failed and disconnected all our users from Lync. Had to restore the snapshot to get it
to work. Did some googling and found that I could just update IIS with the new cert and all is good.. YAY! (or so I thought.... )
Since then users are no longer able to download the address books (galcontacts etc).
If I put my client policy to websearchonly I cant look up anyone either.
If I test-csaddressbookwebquery it fails with a 500 internal server error
If I look at the IIS logs on the front end server I see many POST /groupexpansion/service.svc/WebTicket_Bearer lines getting 500 errors as well.
Also in the IIS logs /WebTicket/WebTicketService.svc/cert is 200 (OK?)
Also in the IIS logs when what I think are requests to get the delta files for the address book GET /abs/handler/C-13e1-13f8.lsabs gives a 401 error.
Finally (?) get-cscertificate lists 2 certs (both from our internal CA). One is used for Default,WebservicesInternal, WebservicesExternal and the othe ris the OAuthTokenIssuer.
Any thoughts would be really great.. I have been bangin on this since Tuesday.

What are you using as a reverse proxy? Sounds like your Front End was only using internal CA certs, so if they haven't expired you shouldn't need to change the cert assignment. Install the new digicert certificate on your reverse proxy (guessing the edge
probably expired as well?, so that cert will need to be updated.) On the Front End run the certificate wizard and assign the corresponding internal certs to the services to correct the changes you did in IIS.
My guess was the certificate wizard didn't like you assigning the digicert to the Webservices internal and default service due to an internal namespace or missing SAN entries.
You can use Digicert's
certutil on the server: https://www.digicert.com/util/ to
validate certificate installation (how to test Private Key and Revoke list: http://www.digicert.com/util/utility-test-private-key-and-revocation-status.htm).
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Address Book on laptop is corrupt: which settings need to be reset?

The Address Book on each of my 2 laptops is corrupt (i.e. the AB when opened quits unexpectedly, without giving much options other than Report to Apple, and quit). But the Contacts data on MobileMe (and on the iPhone) is correct. I'd like to delete any and all of the sync settings on the laptops in order to start with a new and emtpy Address Book which then should be synced (and repopulated) with MobileMe. (I have saved the MobileMe data as V-cards by choosing all contacts and exporting and saving them in a vcf file format; I fear that I am loosing ALL group data this way!?).
Here my questions:
1. To get a "clean" slate for the address book and the syncing process, which databases and sync settings on the laptops do I need to delete and in what order? And much less importantly:
2. How can the group data on MobileMe be saved/retained?
Thanks for any advice. Cheers, Veit

I think that you are right with your diagnosis that not the AB is corrupt, but perhaps the data, because:
1. the problem occurred at the same time on my wife's laptop and on mine.
2. although I re-installed the AB from the OS X disk with the help of the Pacifist application (see the thread below), the problem has not disappeared.
I also was able to eliminate synching issues as the root problem: I used a previously saved backup AB (not entirely current, of course) and could sync with MobileMe (replacing the data there, which I had saved in a .vcf file). I now seem to have a working AB which also syncs, BUT, and here comes the puzzlement: all contacts seem to be there, even all groups, BUT when I want to resize/enlarge the window to cover the whole screen, then the AB freezes up, the window becomes white and empty and after a while AB quits entirely on my laptop with no further notice, and on my wife's laptop gives me a message that AB quit unexpectedly (with a Relaunch and an OK option, but the relaunch produces the same results). Is there any explanation for this, that resizing produces a freeze and inadvertent quit? Is there a preference or settings file burried out there that interferes???
Somehow I have a hunch that the real culprit could be the groups which I had created, since I had noticed some strange results in these groups earlier; some groups were created by me, some are logically determined so called "smart groups". I wonder if I were to delete these groups in MobileMe (which of course I'd hate to loose) and re-synced whether the problem would disappear.
Your suggestions, to add .vcf cards one by one is appreciated, but I don't have them one by one, only ALL contacts in one single .vcf file; (furthermore with some 1500 contacts that would take forever).
I am wondering if you or anyone who follows this thread has suggestions how best to proceed. I am willing to try out any approach.
Thanks in advance, Cheers, Veit

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