Address book groups wiped out

When I migrated my address book from my Tiger to my Leopard Macbook Pro I exported a VCF and transfered it. I had to do this manually since Tiger gave me no "export to" option which Leopard requested. Unbeknownst to me my groups were wiped out (emptied) and before I checked on it I backed it up to my Mobile Me account. I did something wrong and now I'm slowly rebuilding my groups but I want to know the following:
Is there a way of exporting the VCFs in such a way that the groups as well as the addresses will be maintained?
Thanks:)

I would very much like to know the same thing. The ability to export some but not all groups to a new address book would be extremely useful. Especially when an address book ages, some groups and cards become obsolete. The easiest thing, theoretically, would be to transfer the currently useful groups to a new address book and leave the rest behind as an archive of old addresses. But I do not see a way to do this.
Any ideas? Anyone?

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After sending an iCal invitation Safari suddenly stopped responding and after I forced it to quit all entries in my Address Book were deleted. I know I can revert to my backup file, but this is an infuriating bug I'd like to report in case others are having this problem.

Well fortunately you have a backup file.
Maybe something went wrong with your harddisk (permissions etc.) Do you ever run maintenance software (e.g. MacJanitor) or switch off your Mac every day? It's doing some maintenance by itself in the middle of the night if you leave it on.
Just begin with the first instructions and see of that helps. If not, work down the list of suggestions.
Run Disk Utility - Repair Permissions and if that brings up a whole set of issues, try something more serious like Disk Warrior.
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My Address book was wiped out after updating. Where did it go so I can get my addresses back?

I was cleaning up my Address book and the entire list disappeared. Where did it go? I can't find it.

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.

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The Mac specialist over the phone said that my iPod was malfunctioned and needed to be sent in. It ends up that the iPod touch has a few limitations that other iPods I've owned do not have. While my 80 gig video ipod would show all my groups, the iPod touch would not. After about two days of playing around I found out that once I eliminated some of my groups they appeared in iTunes preferences. I don't have an exacts count but I think more then 15 groups is too much for iTunes.
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Julia,
I have the same problem. I want to make a group from a list, even from a email header list. My address book has close to 1000 entries. I'm looking for an easier way (like in Eudora with Nicknames) where I can copy and paste (or something!). Anything better than making a card for each and then finding them one by one to add to the group.
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Not sure that there is one in today's world of spamming - frankly, I'm glad my ISP and/or web email hosting service et al have these in place.
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The suggested resolution essentially said "delete the address book and start over."
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I would very much appreciate any suggestions regarding where to find (or how to build) a script, automator workflow, etc. that accomplished this task.
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Adam

V.K. wrote:
for some reason it can only script changes to messages that were initiated by apple script. At least that has been my experience. I would be VERY happy to be proved wrong on this.
Thanks for the feedback. Assuming your point above is correct, is it possible to create a script or workflow that initiates a new outgoing email message then changes the account to something other than the default? For example, I might might disable [cmd-n] for new messages, then set up new shortcuts linked to simple scripts so that that [ctrl-cmd-A] would initiate a new message with the account set for Employer Alpha and [ctrl-cmd-b] would initiate a new message with the account set for Employer Beta. An alternative solution might be to write a script to replace the usual [cmd-n] with a simple dialogue box that forces me to make a conscious decision about the From account every time I initiate a new outgoing email message.
My goal here is to prevent a situation in which I forget to manually switch from the default account to the correct account for an outgoing message, thus inadvertently sending email from the wrong address. Either of the solutions I described in the paragraph above would meet my needs... might one or both of these might be possible?
Thank you again for your support,
Adam

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