Address Book is slow to change views

My address book has ~2400 entries and is now moving very slowly when changing views or updating any of the contacts.
Is there a way to rebuild the address book database or something?
Thanks for your help.

I think I found my issue - I removed a smart group which I was keeping track of items I have moved to other groups as a catch all. With over 2000 contacts this smart group was really working hard.
I am back to full speed.

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Like the header says. Address book won't save changes to note field. There's another thread with the same header: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2591053?threadID=2591053 But it's archived so I had to post this new one.
If I made a change in any non-note field however, it would stay.
Note: the notes field can be edited with actually having to go into official "edit" mode. Does this make it more prone to corruption? Why would Apple make the notes field NOT need that extra step of protection. Do they think my notes aren't as important? How would they know?
I fixed this one card with a bandaid solution by exporting it and reimporting it. But I guess I need to do that with all 2,000 of my contacts now. It was mentioned on theother thread that somebody made an address book backup and then deleted every contact in the address book and imported them fresh from the backup and that worked.
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Hi,
Using the Note field
You can add notes to any contact in Address Book. This makes it easy to keep track of details about a person in your address book.
Select the person in the Name column in Address Book, then click the Note field in the card.
The Note field can be edited at any time, even if the card is not in edit mode.
You could make a dedicated field that requires the edit button...
Using custom labels
You can change the label that appears next to a piece of information on a contact's card. For example, you might want to change "work" to "support" next to a phone number.
Select the contact that you want to change.
Click the Edit button at the bottom of the window.
Click the label next to a field, then choose Custom from the pop-up menu.
Enter a new label for the field.
The new custom label appears on this contact's card only.
If you want to change a specific label on all cards in your Address Book, edit the card template. Choose Address Book > Preferences and click Template. The Template pane also allows you to add other types of fields on contact cards, such as a nickname, job title, birthday, anniversary, and URL. Use the Add Field menu.

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Address book applescripting - slows computer via memory drain

Hi,
i've just got my new gleaming macbook pro - a return to mac after ~16 years. whew.
I was a heavy user of categories and contacts in outlook - had two contact folders, A and B, with categories in each. Additionally for some categories there is a third field - location. In total there are 2500 contacts I deal with.
To import my contacts was not trivial - i used little creatures O2M to bring over my messages, which worked well, but didn't give as great a result on contacts (lost a lot of fields). Then I used Abee on a csv file and found it was great - well worth the $10.
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After a lot of reading i think that the best location for user defined fields (in my case group, category, and location) is as a custom named URL. This allows me to make Smart groups in address book to sort through these categories.
So I wrote some applescript to move info from related names to URL fields. It steps through everyone in my address book and if the label "Group" exists in related names and the value is "B" then add a new URL and delete the related name label.
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tell application "Address Book"
try
repeat with this_person in every person
set namestoremove to {}
repeat with this_label in (get related name of this_person)
if the label of this_label = "Group" and the value of this_label = "B" then
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set namestoremove to namestoremove & (id of this_label)
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end if
end repeat
repeat with name_id in namestoremove
delete (related names of this_person whose id is name_id)
end repeat
save
end repeat
save
end try
end tell
I have to acknowledge Trevor Harmon scripts for giving guidelines.
I had to add the get statements to resolve properly the related names of the person
The script works well on a small address book, but on the full book it slows to a crawl and stops.
Of course I could re-import using abee - but that wont help me learn about address book scripts.
Anyone see any problems that would cause the script to slow to a crawl? I assume its somehow consuming memory....

Hello
Accessing item in large list can be very slow in AppleScript unless appropriate coding method is used. Also the 'whose' filter can be very slow in filtering large collection of objects (though I doubt it is the case here).
Anyway, you may try something like the script below which avoids the 'whose' filter.
(NOT tested, for my environment is too for this.)
--SCRIPT 1
tell application "Address Book"
repeat with p in (get every person)
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repeat with r in (get its related names)
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[1] Dereferening the list item reference is costly operation in AppleScript.
So dereferece it once (especially if it is used more than once in the iteration).
[2] Use 'by ID' reference form if the 'delete r' does not work properly.
(E.g., if r is in 'by index' reference form and there're multiple related names,
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--END OF SCRIPT 1
Or the following one which, in addition, implements a fast method to process large list.
--SCRIPT 1a
main()
on main()
script o
property pp : {} -- # define large list as script object's property
property rr : {} -- # idem
tell application "Address Book"
set pp to get every person
repeat with p in my pp -- # use refenence to script object's property (i.e. my pp)
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tell p
set rr to get its related names
repeat with r in my rr -- # use refenence to script object's property (i.e. my rr)
set r to r's contents -- # dereference the list item reference [1]
if r's label = "Group" and r's value = "B" then
make new url at end of urls with properties {label:"Group", value:"GroupB"}
delete r
--delete related name id (get r's id) -- # alternative to the above [2]
end if
end repeat
end tell
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end repeat
save addressbook
end tell
end script
tell o to run
end main
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So dereferece it once (especially if it is used more than once in the iteration).
[2] Use 'by ID' reference form if the 'delete r' does not work properly.
(E.g., if r is in 'by index' reference form and there're multiple related names,
'delete r' won't work properly due to changing index.)
--END OF SCRIPT 1a
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H

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Thank you for this link. Here is the process I used to fix it.
1 - I had one smart group in address book, with a NOT variable. (if contact is NOT in any group)
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Hello.
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