Address book frustration

I have been inputting names, email addresses and other personal contact info into my address book (accessed by clicking on the "button" on the toolbar in Entourage). Subsequently, when I write a new email and attempt to select recipients from my address book, a different list of addresses appears that is not a complete listing of my contacts. How do I access the complete list of contacts while writing an email in Entourage?

robertmccoy wrote:
What is the "snow leopard forum"?
that would be the forum that says Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard available from the main forums page. here is the direct link
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=263
but I also saw somebody come up with a workaround for this problem (it does bug a lot of people). see this post by Barney
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10145553&#10145553

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Frustrated HELP Address Book

I have been trying to figure out how to add groups to my address book and I have just realized that when I bring the address book up I am missing the buttons on the outer edge of the address book. In other words, the + button to add groups and contacts is not there. There should also be 2 buttons on the top left corner and they are not there. I am sure that this is a very simple fix but I cannot find it and am getting super frustrated right now.
Please help before I blow a major fuse.
Thanks
Linda

Go to Menu bar > file > New group
or use shift-comand-N

Deleting contact's picture in Address Book (so frustrated)

I can't seem to accomplish this. Each time I delete the contact's picture, it immediately reappears.
I think the picture was automatically added back when I was using Adium. (I've since swiped Adium from my computer and only use iChat and Mail.)
I've deleted a file for her contact in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/, however each time I delete that and then proceed to delete the picture from the contact, the picture not only reappears, but so does the file in this cache folder! This contact is the only one in which I am experiencing this strange behavior, and it is the only contact with a file in that cache folder. Yikes!
I've also tried deleting the contact from my iChat, and even deleting the contact from my address book and re-adding. When I re-add, the picture reappears. Grrrrrr.........
Any ideas?
Also.. this is a contact with a MobileMe account. I too have a MobileMe account. The picture crap only happens when I add their MobileMe email to the contact, and the picture deletes itself if I delete the MobileMe email. Again, this only happen with this single contact, even though I have other contacts with MobileMe addresses in my Address Book.
Message was edited by: Ted L. Nancy

i have the same problem, and it's maddening!

Frustration with Address Book - Not Allowing Copy/Paste of Contact Card

Has anyone found a work-around for copy/paste of an entire contact card in Address Book? Address Book used to allow you highlight and copy all of the content of a contact v-card. Since Snow Leopard released (including the 10.6.2 update), it only allows you to highlight and copy one line at a time. That is a dramatic reduction in productivity -- a lot like the dysfunctional nature of Outlook's contact manager. Any work-arounds that don't involve export/import to other programs?

I believe I responded in the previous posting that the work-around did not resolve the problem. The effort that it takes to implement your suggestion takes more time than it would be to cut/paste individual lines or just retype the data. Again, the purpose is to make/have efficient work flow, not complicated tasks which had simple solutions at one point in time. And since a majority of the people reading support threads are less familiar than you might be with prospective automation and programming tasks with the OSX, maybe I should have simply stated that the function is "broke" and should be "fixed".

Frustration with Address Book

Has anyone found a work-around for copy/paste of an entire contact card in Address Book? Address Book used to allow you highlight and copy all of the content of a contact v-card. Since Snow Leopard released (including the 10.6.2 update), it only allows you to highlight and copy one line at a time. That is a dramatic reduction in productivity -- a lot like the dysfunctional nature of Outlook's contact manager. Any work-arounds that don't involve export/import to other programs?

robertmccoy wrote:
What is the "snow leopard forum"?
that would be the forum that says Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard available from the main forums page. here is the direct link
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=263
but I also saw somebody come up with a workaround for this problem (it does bug a lot of people). see this post by Barney
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10145553&#10145553

Address Book and Mail frustrations

How do I make it so that whatever name I put in my address book and assign to a person it stays that way FOREVER?!? I'll go into address book and change it but as the person emails me back with whatever name they have set to it, it changes again. For example lets say my friend "John Doe" emails me and it comes up as John Doe. I go into address book and just make it say "John". The next time he emails me, it comes up as John Doe again. Can't address book be permanent and unwavering? I just want my address to be what I made them and nothing else.

The deleting of "John Doe" in "Previous Receipents" and the change in "John" in Address Book only helps for a short time - as soon, as John Doe sends a mail again named "John Doe", the Address Book entry will be manipulated again from "John" to "John Doe".
How in the world do i prevent this? How can I switch off this hole annoying and manipulating "Previous entry" thing, which always messes up my Address Book? I do not want to change Address Book entries and clean the Previous Receipent list each and ever day...
HELP, PLEASE!!!

When using Mail and selecting the recipient, Address Book no longer shows Groups. I am forced to select from my entire alphabetized contact list. What's going on?

Has the Address Book software changed? Or has Mail changed? For purposes of email, Address Book no longer allows me to find an addressee or several addressees who are members of one of my Groups (or Smart Groups). What happens is this: I open Mail, initiate a new email, put the cursor in the To: box and click the 'Show addresses' icon in the New Message box. The Addresses list shows up in a separate window with an alphabetized listing of all my contacts. It used to allow me to select a Group, but Groups are no longer listed. I have no choice but to select an address (or addresses) from the entire list. Needless to say, this is intolerable.
Ultimately, I have two questions:
What has changed and can I fix it so it works as it used to?
If I can't fix it, what other email/address book software combination works simply and cleanly so I don't have to live with this frustration.

This add-on may help:
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
I've had this add-on for so long that I can't remember what it does and does not provide.
If you select a List in your Address Book, so that its contents display at the right, does "Export" not write just the Lists's member Contacts out to the csv file?
It does here, but this may be thanks to the above-mentioned add-on.

Jabber for Windows 10.5 shows contacts from Address Book multiple times?

What would cause Jabber for Windows 10.5.1 to show a contact multiple times from the address book when searching? See attached screenshot.

I tried removing firefox and rebooting/reinstalling Jabber with no luck. I reimaged my machine and loaded 10.5.2 fresh install with no previous versions and still getting the random crash. Also, I have users who say it has crashed on them during a WebEx and have had installation problems when upgrading from 9.x to 10.5.x. Version 9 is very solid, sticking with 9.7.5. I have about 10% of my test users having varying problems with version 10.5.x, waiting till the next release. Hopefully Cisco will spend a few more weeks testing the next one before publishing it on their site.
--edit--
Also, when you finally get frustrated and want to downgrade, Jabber 10.5.x doesn't uninstall completely and you end up with an error like the image attached when you try to install v9.7.5 for example and can't install Jabber even after rebooting. I had to run Microsoft Fix It install/Uninstall option and tell it to uninstall Jabber before Windows allowed me to install an older version of Jabber. Not too happy with this release. Strange enough though, some of my users have the exact same laptop I do, same windows build, same patches, etc, and it works fine for them. Anyway, not deploying this one. Good luck.

What to do when your address book disapears. For Blackberry Pearl.

I went nuts when this happened to me. Not that I didn't have a back-up, you should ALWAYS have a
back-up of all your info. I knew that all my contact info was still there, because when someone called or
when I called someone on my address book, all their information still came up on my phone. So I knew it
was all there, but when I went to the address book itself, there was nothing there, and it simply said there
were no contacts. I even added a new one, and that was not showing up in the address book either. VERY
frustrating. So I called My service provider and begged for help. Being a new black berry user, I didn't
know squat about what to do, and I couldn't find anything online that helped me to fix this problem. So, if
this happens to you, (which I am told it happens to people a lot), Here's what you do to fix it....
First you make sure you have a back-up copy of all your backberry info using your blackberry desk top
program. after that, make sure that you blackberry is disconnected from your computer. Then go to the
options on your main menu, click the trackball. Then go to the Security Options menu, click the trackball.
Select General Settings, click the trackball. Now press the balackberry menu key on the left of the
trackball. Select Wipe handheld, click the trackball. Ok, I know thes sounds a little scarry, but trust me it
will all be ok. Once it resets everything your pnone wont work and it is going to look like all your info is
gone, but that's ok. Now go through the setup wizard like you did when you first got your blackberry to set
it all up. you don't have to add in all your info or setup all your emails, you can re-enter all your info later,
and the emails will automatically be re-setup when we are all done. Now To get all your stuff back on the
phone, connect the blackberry up to your computer, and go to your blackberry desk top program. In the
desk top program, go to back-up and restore and restore your most recent back-up. Now click the
blackberry menu on the left of the trackball, select register now, click the trackball. Go to the options
menu, click the trackball. Go to advanced options, click the trackball. look on the next menu for Host
Routing Table, click the trackball. Now with your blackberry dial *228 and select option (1), to get your
phone in service again. Now go online and go to: (http://www.blackberry.com/go/vzw), make sure you
have your blackberry.com password and user name and your blackberry pin number. If the user name and
password you have do not work, than unfortunately you'll have to call your service provider to help you
with that. For Verizon, the number to call is: 1-800-922-0204. It's best if you do not call them from your
blackberry. Now what you want to make sure is that you have all your email passwords etc. Now from
here, you can either have your service provider send to your phone the Service Books, or you can just get
the info for the website I gave so that you can log onto it and send the Service Books to your blackberry
on your own. If you have your service provider help you, this is where you'll need your email passwords,
because before you send the Service Books to your blackberry you'll need to revalidate all your emails
accounts by clicking on the red symbol on the left, and it will ask for your passwords and take care of all
the rest. Once you have all your email accounts re-validated, then you can send the Service books to your
blackberry. You'll see the link on the left upper menu of the page that says Service Books, click on it and
wahlah. Now give it about 15 seconds or so. go to your black berry. Turn it off, and back on again.
Now turn your blackberry off and on again. When it comes back on follow all the menu promptings etc.,
and bingo you got your address book back.

Welcme to the Frums!
Sometimes when the address books disappear, a filter has gotten turned on.
Go to address book>> menu >>> filters >>> and make sure nothing is checked in either box.
Nurse-Berry
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TS3276 I have recently had a problem with one of my hotmail accounts, some sort of virus sending random emails to people in my address book. Hotmail advised me to change my password for that account, which I did. Why won't mail recognise the new password?

I have recently had a problem with one of my hotmail accounts, some sort of virus sending random emails from my address book. Hotmail advised me to delete all contacts and change the password for that account, which I did on my laptop running windows XP. The change was successful and I was able to send and receive emails with no problem. I then had to change the account password on my iPhone 4s, which I did and it too was successful but when I came to change the password on my iMac, running the latest version of Lion it would not recognise the new password. I have tried to remove the account details and re-install but every time I go to add new account my old details are in the box. This is very frustrating as I use my iMac for all my profects and I need to access my email. Please help.

hi guys,
I had already deleted all reference to the hotmail account in question from the keychain access app, I have also tried to delete and re-instal the account details from within mail. The icon in the side bar dissapears but when I go to Add Account, the old account details are in the new account box. I then input my new password but am told that the server does not recognise it. If I access hotmail via google on the iMac I can get into my account with no problems. I am thinking there must be some other form of security system within the mac software that is blocking the new password. This is driving me nuts. I have been trying to resolve this for the last two days. Thank you for your advise anyway.

.Mac Address Book/Contacts Design

Perhaps I am just not finding what I am looking for a would be happy if some one might clarify my frustration with Apple's design of the .Mac contacts features for the Address Book. As a writer/journalist, I am a person with a fairly sizable Address Book and use it while I travel on my Powerbook and even on computers in coffee shops and desktop computers in places I visit. Thus, I have contacts with email, phone, web site and NOTES. The notes I keep about my contacts are vital. When did I last speak to them, what is their latest project or endeavour, who are the spouse and children, driving instructions on how to get to where I am going to meet them. Even appointment times. Why can't Apple seem to integrate these functions with iCal and even Google maps or Mapquest to make is .Mac contract fully functional?
And where are my NOTES in .Mac? It is weird because when I am syncing (another function Apple has not implemented well and has changed the place for and it has totally hosed the sync with my Motorola cell phone as well as my wives) the NOTES appear during the review when merging data BUT I can't view my notes in any location on the .Mac?
The notes also fail to find their way to the iPod. Additionally, I have photos of many of the people in my contacts, I see the holders for them in the iPod contacts, on the .Mac but they don't get updated and transferred and on a number of occassions when I sync, they get whiped out on the host computer. The loss of data is a big issue with the syncing and one that Apple seriously needs to solve.
Why doesn't Apple make exporting the content of the Address Book with note to a tab delimited file easier? Why doesn't Apple give us the ability to use contact information in Pages or other Apple applications for mail merge or letters, into a database, or Excel spreadsheet? A persone ends up inveesting a lot of time and effort into Address Book because it is connected to mail and then you get your data stuck and Apple gives few effective ways out. Is it possible these things can be fixed?

Anyone?

How can I restore my Address Book from Time Machine, iCloud keeps overwriting

This was all done on my MacBook Pro, using Mavericks updated. With the Address Book, and iCloud.
Ok, this is really a mess. I have close to a 1,000 contacts in my address book. I'm not going to manually sort them. I have a bunch of groups in my address book. These groups are very important, and not something simple to sort out. I have already read this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18790074?searchText=How%20can%20I%20restor e%20my%20Address%20Book%20from%20Time%20Machine,%20iCloud%20keeps%20overwriting# 18790074
My situation is similar, and yet a little different.
I accidentally deleted a group in my address book. So, with my handy dandy Time Machine backup, I quickly went into Time Machine, and restored the group. However, I was connected to the internet, and iCloud promptly deleted the nicely restored group. So I went into Time Machine again, and restored the username/Library/Application Support/Address Book folder. Again, opened the Address Book, was content to see my group was intact and there. After about 20 seconds it disappeared before my very eyes. I was now starting to get frustrated. iCloud had again erased my ‘restored’ group.
          I promptly disconnected from the internet, restored my address book, and exported a copy in abbu format. I then reconnected to the internet, and as I expected, iCloud once again deleted my ‘restored group’. I then imported my abbu ‘backup’ file, and everything was once again intact… for about 20 seconds before iCloud again deleted my group.
          Ignorantly, I deleted everything in my address book (while connected to the internet). I then allowed iCloud to update everything. After it seemed like it was done (it doesn’t tell you what is going on). I went ahead and imported my abbu file. This again resulted in nothing in my address book. I again disconnected from the internet, and imported the abbu file. I then exported all my contacts and each group in the vcf format. I started importing each group into iCloud.com online, and everything was working smoothly. Then, it started getting errors, and not importing all the contacts.
          OBVIOUSLY there is a bug, or problem, or something wrong here. iCloud is being extremely stubborn, and extremely un-friendly to it’s user. I’m kind of at my wits end with this. If anyone has any ideas, I really could use some help I think that iCloud could use some help too. Perhaps some lessons in politeness. Perhaps a lesson in ‘restoration.’ Perhaps a compatibility with Apples own Time Machine??? Please any help would greatly be appreciated!
Shane

I don't know why you moved the app. Move the application back into your "Applications" folder which is where it belongs and should always stay. Then drag the app down to your Dock, if the Dock icon is not there already.
Now, open AddressBook. The click on the TM icon on your Dock. Now do you see the TM screen with AB open? Good. Use the TM time arrow back button until AB appears the way it used to be. Then click restore.
-mj
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Sync address book uses old file

When I sync my contacts from Address Book to my iPhone 4s, it is syncing an old address book file or library. Deleted contacts from my Mac show up, and new contacts created over the last several months are not downloaeded to the iPhone. Do I have a corrupt address book file? What can I do to clean this up?

Went to genius bar at Apple store, after 3 hours of frustration by the Apple team, they decided the only fix was to erase my hard drive, restore the system software, and start over. Fortunately, I had a backup in time machine to restore my files and applications. I spent most of a day at Apple, now have a clean working setup.

Why is there missing info in the windows address book fields after syncing iphone 4 contacts?

I am reaching the end of my rope trying to deal with syncing/backing up contacts and other "non copyright protected" content from my iphone 4 and my desktop (and preferably my laptop as well). I've spent literally days trying to solve this problem with ultimately no solution. So, cutting through my MULTIPLE issues and focusing on one primary I need help backing up my contacts from my iphone 4 to ANY computer. Here is what I am working with:
A relatively ancient (5yrs) Window XP desktop with virtually no contacts in Windows Address Book and with only the native Outlook Express on it.
An iphone 4 ios 4.3.1 that was initially and is still setup/synced with the above XP box (minus checking the sync contacts box).
An iphone 4 contact list that is primarily populated by about 200 contacts transfered from an old ATT SIM from the previous ancient phone.
A new Windows 7 laptop that I would love, love, love to use in conjuction with the XP for syncing/backing up not protected, personal data and iphone purchases.
So, with that in mind I have been syncing my phone with the XP w. the "manual manage music..." box checked and all other syncing options other than apps unchecked. I wanted to backup by contacts for emergency recovery and to allow sycncing for the increasing business contacts. Should be easy right? Not so much. I tried clicking the "sync contacts w/ windows address book" option and then synced. I go to WAB and the contact list is there. However, if I look w/in each contact the fields are not filled in. If it was a contact that had name, number, address on my phone the WAB version has the name listing but nothing in the number/addy fields. Now, this is true w/ virtually every contact and most were from that SIM transfer. HOWEVER, contacts that I added ON the iphone (ie manually w/ the phone) DO have complete information.
So, what do I do to make an actual, complete backup of all the contacts on my iphone w/o having to manually reinput all of the real information?? I'm frankly terrified that in trying multiple solutions I will lose all my phone contacts which at this point in my life would be absolutely devistating (ie I would probably lose my job). If it is a matter of newer hard/software I would gladly sync to the new Win 7 laptop instead but there I run into the other aggrivation of apple making it so bloody difficult to use one ios device with more than one personal computer. I'm dumbfounded and frustrated on soooooo many levels and would send countless good vibes to anyone who can help! Advice? Solutions? I'd promise my first born but who wants that these days...? Help, please! ;-)
BTW, sorry for the long wind but I'll add on my "optimal solution" if anyone is feeling especially helpful and has an answer:
I'd like to be able to plug my iphone into both my XP desktop and my Win 7 laptop and sync/backup to both freely (that is after all the real intent of syncing, non?) I don't care about music, videos, or other protected content. I manage that manually and frankly, I can do without having on the iphone as long as I can accomplish being able to sync/backup/restore all the iphone stuff like apps, settings, personal info, and contacts to both the desktop and the laptop. The purpose is that I need to be able to use and recover everything (on the road or at home) if either my laptop or my iphone dies/disappears. But, understanding impermanence as it relates to portable devices, I want a solid backup of everything at home waiting on my desktop. Is that really too much to ask apple???

Seriously folks? I know it was long but I added all info to negate a need for endless back/forth clarifications. No answers???
FYI, i tried syncing contacts to google/gmail and it was a total clusterF as well. No gmail contacts, synced iphone, gmail contacts populated w/ all info but w/lots of repeat entries. Used seek and merge repeats in gmail and then resync but no such luck. Lots of iterations and nothing but fails. Seems everytime the phone and the gmail lists are "as desired" a new sync puts a ton of repeats back into gmail or onto phone. Still perplexed and still needing help....
pretty please....

Please help -- Address Book Crashing on Launch, causing problems with Mail

Problem:
Address Book crashes on launch. Mail crashes on launch as soon as it tries to access address book. Can't use either program.
History:
First noticed problem after an out-of-hard-disk space problem. Had about 2 GB left on the 80 GB hard drive in my 1 GHz iMac G4. Was comparing two very large TIFF files in Photoshop when it crashed because it had used up all the available scratch disk space. Mail and Address Book were also open at the time, along with a number of other apps.
After re-starting, Mail began crashing on launch. There had been a message open at the time of the first crash, and it appeared that the crash was happening as soon as Mail went to Address Book to find the sender's image for that message. The crash report showed that Address Book was the thread that failed.
Tried to launch Address Book; crashes on launch.
Both applications refuse to launch.
(Have also noticed that Safari crashes when entering text in a field -- good thing I have an iBook to use to post this plea for help!)
Attempted Solutions:
Scoured these discussions for suggestions.
Trashed preferences, re-started & re-launched; no luck.
Repaired permissions and disk repeatedly until squeaky clean
Used Pacifist to re-install sync services, address book, mail; no luck
Re-run Combo Update PPC 10.4.6; no luck
Have now done a full Archive and Install, re-installed the 10.4.6 combo update and the most recent security update, and verified permissions and disk.
Problem still persists -- which suggests it's something in my User library, I presume, but I'm out of ideas. Very tired and frustrated -- please help!
I've copied the most recent pertinent information from Address Book's Crash Log and posted below. Let me know if I need to post anything else, or logs from other apps. Thanks for taking the time to look into my problem, everyone!
Crash Report:
Date/Time: 2006-06-17 09:21:16.256 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.6 (Build 8I127)
Report Version: 4
Command: Address Book
Path: /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
Parent: WindowServer [71]
Version: 4.0.3 (483)
Build Version: 115
Project Name: AddressBook
Source Version: 4830000
PID: 285
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xe183c1fc
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c85708 c4_FormatB::Define(int, unsigned char const**) + 212
1 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c82db4 c4_HandlerSeq::Prepare(unsigned char const**, bool) + 372
2 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c83ae8 c4_FormatV::SetupAllSubviews() + 160
3 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c851e0 c4_FormatV::Get(int, int&) + 44
4 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c85150 c4_Handler::GetBytes(int, c4_Bytes&, bool) + 44
5 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c85108 c4_Sequence::Get(int, int, c4_Bytes&) + 88
6 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c85058 c4_ViewRef::operator c4_View() const + 76
7 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c844a4 c4_Storage::Description(char const*) + 96
8 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c85c04 c4_Storage::GetAs(char const*) + 100
9 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c86e6c cacheViews + 240
10 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c811f4 -[ABAddressBook nts_OpenContactManagerWithMode:cacheSchema:] + 452
11 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c7fd50 -[ABAddressBook nts_InitDefaultContactManager] + 1052
12 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c7f88c +[ABAddressBook nts_SharedAddressBook] + 76
13 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c7f7c0 +[ABAddressBook nts_CreateSharedAddressBook] + 76
14 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c7f6e4 +[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] + 80
15 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94c9d990 -[ABUIController setupAsPeoplePicker:] + 300
16 com.apple.AddressBook 0x00008e68 0x1000 + 32360
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d3e50 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 928
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x936c003c loadNib + 240
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x936bfa94 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 716
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x93716f64 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 156
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x937aa930 -[NSWindowController loadWindow] + 204
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x937aa654 -[NSWindowController window] + 92
23 com.apple.AddressBook 0x00009224 0x1000 + 33316
24 com.apple.AddressBook 0x00008f68 0x1000 + 32616
25 com.apple.Foundation 0x92931ad8 nsnotecallback + 180
26 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90803010 __CFXNotificationPost + 368
27 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907fb0ec _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 684
28 com.apple.Foundation 0x9291bee0 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 92
29 com.apple.AppKit 0x936bc338 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 112
30 com.apple.AppKit 0x936bc224 -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 92
31 com.apple.AppKit 0x936bbd6c -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpen:] + 264
32 com.apple.AppKit 0x936bb914 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 92
33 com.apple.Foundation 0x92932ae4 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 380
34 com.apple.Foundation 0x92932944 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 92
35 com.apple.AE 0x914f2960 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned long, unsigned char*) + 208
36 com.apple.AE 0x914f27fc dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 44
37 com.apple.AE 0x914f2654 aeProcessAppleEvent + 284
38 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x931db0e0 AEProcessAppleEvent + 60
39 com.apple.AppKit 0x936ba05c _DPSNextEvent + 856
40 com.apple.AppKit 0x936b9b48 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
41 com.apple.AppKit 0x936b608c -[NSApplication run] + 472
42 com.apple.AppKit 0x937a6bfc NSApplicationMain + 452
43 com.apple.AddressBook 0x00008a98 0x1000 + 31384
44 com.apple.AddressBook 0x00008588 0x1000 + 30088
45 com.apple.AddressBook 0x00009f68 0x1000 + 36712

I'm no expert on Address Book, but I can tell you that the files involved in the crash could be HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist and anything in HOME/Library/Application Support/AddresBook/. It looks like you have ignored this latest folder so far. I would try moving both items to the Desktop, restart, and see whether that stops the crashes.

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