Address Book launches then locks up

Every since last update (07/25/12), Address Book launches then locks up on bnoth my iMac and Mac Mini. Beach ball goes around and does not stop. Only way to quit is to force quit

Will try PRAM reset. Have done the SMC reset. I am having this problem on both my iMac and my Mac Mini. Both are running 10.7.4. When I did the Repair disk Permissions I got a report that said; "Warning:SUID file "System/Library?CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDA A" has been modified and will not be repaired" I then noticed that on July 25th I did a software update that included Remote Desktop Client Update 3.6.0. Thought there might be a connection. Symptoms are on both machines.

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Address Book database is locked?

Hello,
I'm having a constant problem when trying to sync (using MySync): the sync services engine says that mingling failed and looking at the log I see:
<pre>
2006-06-21 09:09:59.357 SyncServer[216] NSGenericException: error 5 executing 'pragma synchronous=normal': database is locked
2006-06-21 09:09:59.358 SyncServer[216] ISyncManager caught exception NSGenericException trying to open truth record store at /Users/schmitta/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local. Reason: error 5 executing 'pragma synchronous=normal': database is locked
2006-06-21 09:10:00.877 AddressBookSync[227] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: Session <ISyncConcreteSession: 0x35ea30> cancelled. SyncServer failed to merge the changes from some clients: NSGenericException error 5 executing 'pragma synchronous=normal': database is locked
</pre>
So it seems that my address book database is locked. I tried rebooting both machines, but it did not do anything.
Anybody knows how to unlock an address book database?
Thanks a lot.
PowerMac G5 2x2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try it. (The new user account thing might be difficult as I'll have to tell MySync to synchronize accounts with different names.)
The strange thing is that this started happening with two machines at the same time.

Help, address book launches firefox

Everytime I launch address book, firefox boots too. I believe address book thinks Firefox is my default browser, and I'm guessing the "Add URL to <browser>" menu item in Address book wants to connect to Firefox even though it isn't running, because my menu item says "Firefox". However, Firefox is no longer my default browser, Chrome is. Firefox hasn't been my default browser for months, and I keep setting Chrome to be my default browser, but the Address Book just doesn't listen.
I hate having to wait for Firefox to book just to find an address. Help please.

Gaygilmore, have you had any additional insights into your problem, which I share? In my case I sync my address book through MobileMe and have the same data on two different computers. What's puzzling is that one computer launches Firefox when Address Book is launched but on the other I don't see this behavior. The two computers run the same OS X version, both have Chrome as the default browser and both have Firefox installed. Of course there are other variations with the apps, plug-ins and extensions installed on each computer so this is not a completely same to same comparison.
And are you really still running OS X 10.4.7?
Steps I've taken: 1) uninstalled Firefox and deleted the Firefox prefs file and emptied Trash. In this case when Address Book launches it is apparently still looking for Firefox so I get a dialog box asking me to indicate where Firefox is. 2) Deleted Quicksilver. No change. 3) checked selected URLs in the address book contacts after uninstalling Firefox. Clicking on a URL opens the page in Chrome. No love so far.

Address Book freezes hangs locks up every time on quit

Every time I quit out of Address Book it freezes (locksup hangs).
I have tried exporting my data, deleting the database and other files from my user library, deleting preferences for the Address Book and then reimporting but that has not helped.
Ideas?
MacOS10.4.11 PowerBookG4 15" all up to date

At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

Address Book launches spontaneously, won't close

I don't even use Address Book; I use MS Entourage 2004. Yet now and then the fan on my Macbook starts running loudly and, when I take a look (opt-command-esc) I see that Address book is running. I try to close it normally and via Force Quit, yet it won't go away, remaining on the list and activated on the Dock. Anybody know why this program is launching itself and refusing to close down? Thanks.

Thanks, AK. In answer to your questions, no, it has not always been like this. Certainly it's been since I upgraded to Leopard, maybe even since an update of that. I can't figure what else I might be running that wants Address Book. I do have addresses in there, I think it syncs with Entourage.
I do now find that it closes eventually, but only after holding out for a long sullen interval following Force Quit.

Address Book launching and closing at login

Hi Everyone,
Address Book is launching and then immediately closing when I log in. I do not have it listed in my "logon items." Could it be caused by another program? I just recently installed Entourage, but I'm not sure if this correlates with that or not--it's possible I just started noticing it.
Thanks a lot!
-nj
Imac 20" C2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi nj.
You probably have a piece of software such as a Dashboard widget or a system utility that also opens every time you log in and that requires Address Book to be running for whatever it does.

How to restore Address Book and then add working iCloud Account?

OK i'm going insane trying to resolve this one.... all started with a shed load of Duplicates!
3 devices: MacBook Pro, iMac, iPhone 4S
I finally upgraded the MBP to 10.7.2, the iMac already was and the iPhone was already 5.0.1
I've held off moving to iCloud from Mobile.me because of the 10.6.x MBP
...so now all on the same song sheet, I clicked the upgrade to iCloud from my MBA and all went well!
The MBA pushed 1352 address cards to the iCloud and I only had the iCloud account showing in my Address Book.
My iPhone then happily went iCloud and downloaded ALL the calendars (and I have far too many....I'll clean up soon, promise ;-)
but i hadnt turned on Contact sync for a very good reason.
I DON'T WANT ALL MY CONTACTS ON MY iPHONE!
So having found some advice, it says you have to keep everything you dont want in iCloud, in the On My Mac account
(which I didnt appear to have at that point)
I turned my iMac on and connected to the iCloud, all went well and I again had a single iCloud account in Address Book with 1352 cards
I then went Address Book/Preferences/General/Deafult Account/On My Mac and it generated the empty On My Mac account in the Address Book.
Highlighting ALL my iCloud address cards and dragging them to On My Mac, a successful duplication was made.
Highlighting ALL my iCloud address cards and deleting, all three devices now had NO contacts in the iCloud related accounts (what I wanted)
I then turned on Contact sync on my iPhone and it pushed 186 contacts to the iCloud and in turn to all 3 devices (perfect!)
but then came the fun part....
On my iMac, the On My Mac account had gone from 1352 to over 1900 with loads of duplicates. So I selected ALL deleted and restored from an Address Book backup prior to going iCloud. This began my problem....
if I restore it WIPES the iCloud account from the machine and leaves me with 1352 in On My Mac,
if I try and add an iCloud account it then wants to upload the 1352 into the iCloud which I dont want.
If I delete all, setup iCloud acount first I get the 186 correctly, but the moment I restore from backup it overwrites and I'm again left with On My Mac and no iCloud account
AHHHHHH!
how on earth do I get the working iCloud with 186 (which is perfectly fine on 3 devices) and restore 1352 in ON MY MAC, so my iMac Address Book has two accounts very seperate from each other. I want the 186 on my MacBook Pro and iPhone, but I want an iCloud account with 186 and an On My Mac with 1352 on the iMac
ANY advice welcome
TIA

Thanks havinabubble for your assistance. I'm having all sorts of problems with iCloud because we've got iphone 3g's which means the iCloud is working on our mac and ipads but not on our iphones. I've been trying to solve this problem for days and I lost my "on my mac account" along the way. Once I followed your section where you gave directions how to "generate the empty On My Mac account" I was able to re-establish my contacts list on my mac. Your suggestion was very valuable. Thank you.
havinabubble wrote:
SOLVED!
thanks to a bit of sleep and https://discussions.apple.com/message/17282476#17282476
cheers to Winston Churchill who's post gave me the solution!
with On My Mac selected, highlight and DRAG TO DESKTOP
then highlight ALL and DELETE ALL
add the iCloud account which replaces ALL contacts with the 186 from the iCloud.
select Address Book/Preferences/General/Default Account/On My Mac and it generates the empty On My Mac account in the Address Book.
DRAG the 1352 back into On My Mac account
now have two accounts...
PROBLEM SOLVED, thanks Winston!

Address books opens then quits

When I open Address Book, it opens fine and then quits after about 8 seconds every time. I don't get any "AB has quit" message afterwards.
I've tried deleting just about every cache and preference file I can think of. Even moved the AddressBook.data file and it opened with no contacts and did the same thing.
If I try moving the AddressBook.data.beforesave or aftersave files I just getting the spinning beach ball and AB never opens.
Any suggestions out there?

Another good suggestion, but no luck. I even tried creating a new user, and the same thing happened. The only difference was that with the new user I got a crash report:
Date/Time: 2007-09-12 20:54:21.339 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R218)
Report Version: 4
Command: Address Book
Path: /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
Parent: WindowServer [710]
Version: 4.0.5 (487)
Build Version: 16
Project Name: AddressBook
Source Version: 4870000
PID: 1260
Thread: 2
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x9520ccf0
Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000b348 machmsgtrap + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000b29c mach_msg + 60
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907ddba8 __CFRunLoopRun + 832
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907dd4ac CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93298b20 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x932981b4 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 380
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93298020 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 96
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x9377dae4 _DPSNextEvent + 384
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x9377d7a8 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x93779cec -[NSApplication run] + 472
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x9386a87c NSApplicationMain + 452
11 com.apple.AddressBook 0x00008c9c 0x1000 + 31900
12 com.apple.AddressBook 0x0000878c 0x1000 + 30604
13 com.apple.AddressBook 0x0000a1a8 0x1000 + 37288
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90054388 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90070be8 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 556
2 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94e3fcac -[ABRemoteImageLoader workLoop] + 132
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x92be11a0 forkThreadForFunction + 108
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002bd08 pthreadbody + 96
Thread 2 Crashed:
0 <<00000000>> 0x9520ccf0 0 + -1793012496
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x92be11a0 forkThreadForFunction + 108
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002bd08 pthreadbody + 96
Thread 2 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x000000009520ccf0 srr1: 0x000000004000f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x24000028 xer: 0x0000000000000000 lr: 0x0000000094e0cc1c ctr: 0x0000000094e0ccb8
r0: 0x0000000094e0ccb8 r1: 0x00000000f0101970 r2: 0x0000000094e0cc48 r3: 0x00000000003a69e0
r4: 0x0000000094f2ce6c r5: 0x0000000005112ee0 r6: 0x00000000ffffffff r7: 0x0000000001030301
r8: 0x00000000755d5c74 r9: 0x0000000000000008 r10: 0x0000000085756c78 r11: 0x00000000a4dfede8
r12: 0x00000000900015c8 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x0000000000000000 r22: 0x0000000000000000 r23: 0x0000000000000000
r24: 0x0000000000000000 r25: 0x0000000000000000 r26: 0x0000000000000000 r27: 0x000000000181c600
r28: 0x0000000000000000 r29: 0x0000000000000001 r30: 0x00000000003a69e4 r31: 0x0000000094e0cad4
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Sync first erased Address Book contacts, then erased my new iPhone contacts

I had to take my Mac Mini into service today ($50) to get my Address Book contacts restored after the first sync with my new iPhone. There was no prompt, no warning, no merge / replace option that the iPhone Help says would happen:
Step 3: Sync iPhone
Click Apply in the lower-right corner of the screen. iPhone and your computer sync according to your settings.
The first time you sync with a service, you are asked if you want to merge data, replace data on the service, or replace the data on your computer.
That expected prompt did not happen ... the sync started on its own as soon as I put the iPhone in the dock.
After I brought the Mac Mini home from service -- after making a backup CD of the contacts now restored in my Address Book -- I redocked the iPhone and stopped the sync with the slider. Then I hunted down the sync options in the Info tab in iTunes. Still no option to merge or replace that I could find. I carefully pressed Apply after I'd selected the sync options I wanted.
I still didn't get the expected prompt mentioned above.
It synched, but now all the few newly typed contact phone #s I'd put in the iPhone are gone! Not merged, not added, gone.
I searched the forums but could not find a topic addressing this.
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Not sure why syncing failed but you can do the following: download the free app My Contacts Backup and use it on your phone. It will back up your contacts as an attachment to an email. Send the email to yourself and open it on your mac. Double-click the attachment and your mac should import the contacts into Address Book.

Thunderbird adds " and characters to my email addresses from my address book, and then can't send them because they are unrecogniseable, how do I stop it?

If I click a contact in the contact payne of a write window, it comes up in the To: place as <" joeblogs"@talktalk.com> for example. Even though in the address book it is [email protected] When I try to send the email, it comes back as an unrecogniseable address and is not sent. If I remove the <""> characters by hand ,it works. What am I doing wrong? Please help!

Thank you Matt, I think the problem is solved. I must have been in the habit of putting a space before the email address, one I removed them the "" were removed, The <> still surrounds the email address on the outgoing mail but that is to differentiate the address from the friends name. Thanks.

I accidentally selected all of my contacts in my address book and then clicked "Merge cards." I now have one contact in my phone and address book that has a million phone numbers attached to it. Whoops! How can I get my separate contacts back?

This is terrible. I need all of these contacts back. Is there a way to revert to a previous state on my phone/icloud/computer?

IF you have backups to icloud turned on, you can reset the device and do a restore. This will first delete all on the device and restore whatever you have on the backup. IF you have backups to itunes that are recent, then you can do the same thing but restore from the itunes backup.
Otherwise, if you also have the data on a computer, then if it's no longer there, you can perform a restore of the contacts file/folder from Time Machine (for macs) or from your PC backup.
If none of the above, then without backups, I'm afraid you've lost the original data.

What causes the rainbow swirling icon that locks a program such as address book?

What causes the rainbow swirling icon that locks a program such as address book? And how do I get out of it?

The Finder is just assigning the wrong kind and icon to what I presume are plist files. Often rebuilding the Launch Services will cure this, but sometimes Finder gets a strange bee in its bonnet about some particular combination of characteristics and what they mean, and it can't be dissuaded. Unless you are opening plist files, and get really annoyed when you double click one and Address Book launches and announces "wrong type of file" you can just ignore it. In my own ~/Library/Prefences folder plists are generally labeled correctly, probably because I have them assigned to open with Apple's own Property List Editor. But there are some other preferences that Finder has decided are something altogether different than what they are: WingNuts Prefs and Saved Games are both believed to be Eudora preferences; a whole batch of other prefs from a dozen differenct programs are described as TextWrangler preferences, and there's a another group thought to be Unix Executables. As long as the program they belong to isn't having a problem finding and writing to them, don't worry about it.
Francine
Francine
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Lion Address Book problem - all of over 2,000 contacts disappeared - one mysteriously reappeared - then they all reappeared during resync with Gmail!

The subject iine pretty much describes what happened.
I am wondering if it is anything to do with what looks like an odd file in the directory ~ Library -> Application Support -> Address Book
As well as the "real" database file there is this zero bytes one:
AddressBook-v22.abcddb.0F392545-78F2-4AE6-8D30-457C138332B2.unknown
From the date, it might be something to do with installing and linking Cobook to Address Book maybe?
These are the files and folders in that directory (sub-directory files not shown):
I have enabled the debug menu in Address Book but have not been able to find any info about how to use it. I lie! I did read that I might possibly have been able to "retrieve" the contacts using the debug menu "Force Refresh" - however that was after I had started to resync with Gmail contacts.
I realised that something odd was going on during resync when I saw that there were over 4,000 contacts being processed rather than the 2,000 or so that I was expecting. Initially, none of the contacts groups from Gmail were showing in Address Book after this partial sync (I stopped it when I saw what was happening). However, after quitting and restarting Address Book, the groups appeared again.
I have not lost my contact data - as well as Gmail contacts I also have an Address Book backup from about two weeks ago and also the backup created by Cobook about two weeks ago. (Installed Cobook as it looked like a very efficient way of getting to view individual contacts quickly - Quicksilver just isn't finding them at all). I used third party app "Contacts Sync for Google Gmail" to link Address Book with Gmail as it gives you options about what to do for each duplicate card that it identifies.
I then spent a lot of time sorting through the contacts on Address Book, finding duplicates, updating data, etc. with the intention of managing contacts in Address Book from then on, rather than in Gmail. Not all of these changes are reflected in the Cobook backup or Gmail.
My worry is, with Lion being such a god-awful Pig's Ear in so many more ways than this, that this Address Book mess might happen again.
I seem to have spent most of my time over the last month wrestling with the numerous problems that keep cropping up with Lion and getting little to show for it.
WARNING! FOOT-STAMPING WHINGE ABOUT LION - LOOK AWAY AND DOWN TO THE HOWLING FACES - IT WON'T BE ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVEN'T HEARD BEFORE:
I gave up on OSX when I tried Panther - that was dreadful - but was lured back by Tiger, have used Leopard very comfortably for about 5 years, had a very happy couple of months with Snow Leopard and now - this mess that is Lion! I have repaired OSX install permissions and "home user" permissions time and again, TinkerTooled it until I am blue in the face and it seems that every few days I manage to fix something and then almost immediately something else screws up. I can't upgrade to Mountain Lion on this machine and am seriously considering installing or running Linux as these problems with Lion are just never-ending - and then there are all the other stupid changes that have subsequently been sensibly reverted, mitigated or worked around in ML).
I have never bothered much with Address Book or Mail in the past as I have found them too limited. I have used either the Gmail web interface or Thunderbird. However, Gmail has started crashing my favourite browsers (Seamonkey and Firefox), Thunderbird has got just a bit too complicated and I cannot get Quicksilver to play ball with Gmail. The Lion version of Address Book is better than Gmail Contacts and Mail Smart Folders can emulate Gmail filters and labels - a huge improvement. So, just when these apps look good enough to be worth bothering with, they come part and parcel with what I have seen mocked, and rightly, as "Apple Vista"!
Sorry for that but I am about at the end of my tether with it all ;-/
I would be very grateful if anyone can offer any advice about:
1) That strange looking zero bytes file in the Address Book folder.
2) Whether the Address Book debug menu options might be of any help in this situation?
There seem to be lots of people having problems with Address Book in both Lion and Mountain Lion, if not exactly this issue, so maybe the answers will help others too.
Fingers crossed!
Ms Mousette
ps. In the product list to tick for this question they are grouped so I cannot specify that this is actually nothing to do with the iPhone. I have got a load of contacts on my iPhone too but I am not going to sync them until I have got this issue sorted out.

Could this font be the cause of the problem?
Possibly, since that font is not the one that Address Book uses and there is no method to specify or change the font used by Address Book. You could have recovered your Address Book contacts without syncing, so that could also be part of the problem. You should always make a keep a backup of your Address Book on your computer and in another safe location whenever you make any change to it.
May I ask why you haven't updated to 10.4.11 yet, as it provides various bug fixes and security enhancements?
Mulder

Address Book – 'Call with Skype' launches VMWare Fusion

Clicking 'Call with Skype' against a number in Address Book launches Fusion and starts up XP. I had the Windows version of Skype installed in XP under Fusion but have removed it using the correct Add/Remove Software process. Clicking 'Call with Skype' once again starts the dialling from the Mac version of Skype. Weird and unwanted..... Any ideas to prevent this?

Not a problem afterall, as it turns out. Only shame on me for being a newb.
Though during my puzzle-solving process came across the skype-plugins for the AB. They are located in /library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ folder and are not automatically removed, when uninstalling Skype.
Names: SkypeABDialer.bundle and SkypeABSMS.bundle.

Address Book, importing text tab file, custom fields not there

Searched thru all past posts. Found some that are close but not what I am trying to do.
Open Address Book, go into Preferences, select Template and under the Names field (friend, assistant, father, etc) I add a custom field called "Keyword".
I also add two more custom fields in the Phone area called "Work 3" and "Work 4". There are other custom fields I need but I want to keep this short.
Quit Address Book then relaunch. Add a new contact and the new custom fields, Keyword, Work 3 and Work 4 are there. All good so far.
I have a Now Contact file with about 800 contacts in it. I export all fields as a Text file, Tab delimited. No problems there. With Address Book launched, select Import, pick the text file, leave Text Encoding on Automatic and click Open.
The window that shows the fields for Address Book and fields for the text file side by side opens. This is where you match up the correct fields for importing. If I go to one of the fields from the text file that I created a custom field for, click under the Address Book heading on the Do not import, scroll thru the Apple choices of fields, none of the custom fields show up. Only the original Apple ones are there. Why does Apple let you create them in the Template area but not have them available for importing?
That is my problem.
Adding new contacts as I get them, is fine. Importing 800 contacts with these custom fields is not possible.
I could map them to go to the Notes field along with actual notes but that is inelegant. The custom fields are there, why can't we use them to their full potential.
This appears to be a bug to me. Let me know what you think.

Hi Adam,
Thanks, but the problem is not importing to AddressBook, it is exporting. I did discover from another that I can export very easily to a Numbers spreedsheet. It is exceptionally simple. But it will not export custom fields. Someone said that is because of a vcard standard. My custom fields are just "name" fields that I have labeled differently. But Numbers does not support the name (it only takes the name of the card).
Christine

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