Address book loosing contacts

Help! Ever since installing this lousy Lion OS i have had many problems one of which is my address book loosing contacts without any action by me. They have simply disappeared.

Please. iCloud, not Icloud (joking...)
Well, I do use iCloud and I am pretty happy with it. It bahaves very well even on heavy operations like mass deduplication or re-import of data.
I would suggest synchronizing the iPhone only with iCloud and not using iTunes sync mechanism. But this may be completly unrelated to your problem.
You noticed that behavior completely randomly, is it reproductible ?

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Address Book crash - Contacts gone

Hey there, I have been tracking some of the discussion in the board regarding the fact that the adress book crashes out of a sudden ... force quite... and then all the contacts are gone.
I have exactly the same problem. Just within normal usage, meaning adding contacts or looking for some the address book crashes and everything is gone.
another problem is that my .mac sync is not working properly. once (three month ago) all my addresses have been uploaded but since then no sync has been done. eventhough that the automatic sync of the address book is checked and so forth.
so probelm is pretty clear. Address book crashes -> contacts are gone and impossible to update my addressbook on my .mac account.
anybody has an idea?

When I look under "Accounts" in the Adress Book preferences, there is an option for syncing with Mobile Me, Google, and Yahoo in the right column.
Hope this helps!

HT201412 what do you do when your phone numbers no longer have the contact persons name just a number. Also names are missing from the address book where contacts are.

what do you do when your phone numbers no longer have the contact persons name just a number. Also names are missing from the address book where contacts are.

I, too, love everything about my phone. The other day I tried to crash my Z10 by running multiple apps and having videos running in the background. Do you think my Z10 showed any signs of slowing down? Nothing doing! It ran as smooth as silk. I'm very impressed.
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HT2486 is address book and contact the same program

I need to build and print a mailing list, is Address Book and Contact the same program on my Macbook Pro? I was considering getting Bento4 - not sure what to do

Tbugs2 wrote:
is Address Book and Contact the same program on my Macbook Pro?
Yes.
Address Book came with OS X 10.7 Lion and earlier versions of OS X.
Contacts comes with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Apple changed the application name.

Any way to make address book sort contacts in 2 (or more) languages?

Any way to make address book sort contacts in 2 (or more) languages?
It is very very annoyin that address book sorts contacts only in one language (the one selected as as a system wide) and puts any entries in other languages under #

Fast Contacts well let you sort by nickname or a lot of other ways. It's on sale - free today!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fast-contacts/id286543435?mt=8

TB v. 24.0: Changed ISP's; ~ new email in Server Settings & Outgoing Server & all Address Books and Contacts; TB still showing old email ID for Fwd & Rply

TB v. 24.0, Win 7 Pro. Changed ISP's. I use Outlook 2007; wife uses TB, same box. Changed TB username & e-mail address in Server Settings & Outgoing Server & set as Default. Changed e-mail address in all address books and Contact lists. Now TB still showing old e-mail address in <From> when Reply or Forward. This is confusing recipients, who have been sending their replies off to a now-nonexistent account. Checked Windows Contacts - empty. Checked my Outlook 2007 - all Contacts changed appropriately. How do I kill that old e-mail address in TB when it isn't even listed any more - except when we try to Reply or Forward?

When you got the new email address and changed ISP's, you needed to create a new mail account for that new existing email address.
When a mail account is created there are many preferences setup to be able to manage and run that mail account. Trying to track down and modify all of those within the either the config editor or prefs.js is not only time consuming, but you could easily cause further problems if any error is made.
So I suggest you fix the original account by reentering all the old data. Then create a new mail account for the new exisitng mail address.
* File > New> Existing mail account.
or
* 3bar menu icon > New Message > Existing Mail account.
when you have both mail accounts in your left folder pane, you can choose to move any wanted emails from the older mail account into suitable folders in Local Folders. This will save a copy of emails.
Then you can delete the old account, leaving saved emails in Local Folders and only one new mail account.
To remove mail account:
* Tools > Account sEttings
* select old mail account
* click on 'Account Actions'
* select 'Remove Account'
* click on OK

I have an iphone 4S with broken wifi (!) and I need to sync my contacts before I set up my new iphone 6. I thought contacts synced automatically with itunes but seems not. I've found my Apple address book but contacts are outdated. What to do? Help!

I have an iphone 4S with broken wif i :-( and I need to sync my contacts before I set up my new iphone 6. I thought contacts synced automatically with itunes but seems not. I've found my Apple address book but contacts are outdated. What to do? Help!

If your Bluetooth is working, you may be able to tether your phone to another device, and backup that way. Either via iCloud or one of many Apps that send yourself a VCF file containing your contacts.
You may have to update to a later IOS via USB and iTunes, not sure if IOS 6 has Bluetooth Tethering.
I would have thought you could also switch off cloud sync'ing for your contacts, this should ask a question if you want to keep the contacts on your phone. An iTunes Backup and then Restore to your new iPhone should restore the local contacts. Then sync these back to the iCloud.
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Address Book Importing Contacts to Outlook

Can anyone advise on how to import contacts from Address Book into OUtlook for Mac?

As I read this thread, I can see where the solution for Heather would qork for exporting maiboxes and contacts from Outlook (windows version) and then into apple mail or entourage. I have a tougher problem.
My wife is upgrading from an old Imac (OS 9.1.2) using Outlook Express5.0 to a MacBook. She has years of email and contacts on her old client.
I am familiar with exporting and importing, but I don't even see a choice for exporting messages on the Outlook Express client.
Can anyone help here? Geez, Apple should be at fault here for building such a reliable machine that we didn't' have to upgrade earlier. Just kidding.
Thanks in advance,
John

Address book- Local contacts not in iCloud

I have an iMac, iPhone and iPad.
The IOS device are set to sync contacts only with iCloud.
Here's my issue; Address book on my iMac has 407 contacts, but there's only 221 on iCloud, and the IOS devices. Address Book has 2 accounts - iCloud, and Local, so it appears that there are some local contacts that aren't being synced.
I can't see any settings that would allow (force) all contacts to sync, it looks like it should just happen that way, so any assistance would be appreciated.
Cheers
Bill

Go to users and groups and choose only your On My Mac Contacts to display.
Ensure that nothing is typed in the search field.
Click to select the first contact and shift-click the last to select them all.
Drag the list of contacts to your desktop.
Delete the contacts from Address Book (using your delete key).
Make sure your iCloud account is your default account (preferences > general).
Select All iCloud contacts from users and groups.
Drag the file you previously dragged to your desktop back onto Address Book.
You might want to back up all your contacts before you begin.
Select All contacts in users and groups
Click to select the first contact and shift-click the last to select them all.
Drag the list of contacts to your desktop.

How can I import multiple email addresses in cc field of MAIL email into Address Book or Contacts?

Hello...Mail and Address Book used to have a great feature where when you received an email (in Mac MAIL program), if there were multiple emails I'm the "to" or "cc" fields, you could select them all as a batch and drag them into Address Book and it would add them all to Address Book. Now it doesn't seem to let you do it as a batch...you have to click each email address and select "add to address book".
Does anyone know of a workaround, or an AppleScript, or third party app that would allow users to add email addresses to AB in a batch from a MAIL email?
Thanks!

Try this.. Click the first in the CC field hold Shift, Click the Second Third, Fouth, Fifth and so on... click right Mouse select add to Contacts.

How can I print an address book from Contacts.

I have my contacts all listed in Contacts, but I want to print them as an Phone Book, is there a way to do this without having to retype everyone.
I have been trying to do this with the help from one to one at the apple store but it seems we keep running into snags which i can not get around, now I am at a stand still again now trying to do for the last 3 months. Help Please

Hi Cherin,
Printing a phone book (or an 'Address Book" as ontacts Help refers to it) is done directly from Contacts, and does not involve Pages. Details are available in Contacts' Help files. Try searching 'print phone book' (without the quotes).
Your question will be better served in the Mail & Contactssection of the Mac OS & System Software community.When reposting there, be sure to describe the snags you've run into so that people responding can oncentrate on those without having to repeat what you already know.
Regards,
Barry

Address Book Multiple contacts?

For some reason, when I drag new contacts to a group this has somehow merged all the contacts? i.e each contact or primary email has 100 or more duplicate work contacts. I could delete one by one in edit card but I have around 1000 conacts all with multiple emails which is very time consuming and makes the mac run very slowly. All I need is the header email as I'm colating a data base ..
any ideas
Thanks

I performed the following to troubleshoot but multiple instances of Personal Address Book remained:
* Manually deleted the Google contacts. TB is no longer creating multiple instances of abook.mab;
* Added a new contact to one of the Personal Address Books, the new contact appeared in all of them;
* Renamed abook.map, started TB and a new one was created. Still four instances of Personal Address Book were there, however they're now empty;
* Restored abook.map and addresses returned with four instances;
* I tried deleting several files within the Profile directory as I know one of them is creating these instances. I haven't found the one as some have no effect on the Address Book and others bugger up TB, as you would expect.
I know there is a file with some kind of configuration doing this, I just haven't found the one to replace.

My icloud Contacts do not match my address book all contacts .. I an trying to synchronize icloud with outlook .. it does not appear to synchronize current address book with icloud

I setup icloud to sychronize with outlook ... I have been sychronizing with gmail contacts so the 2 do not match.
I would like to have one contacts file that synchronizes with outlook. How do I make the contacts file on my iphone synchronize with the icloud then with outlook?
Ernie

Nuts isn't it. This seems to have been an issue snce dAY 1. iT FROSTS ME THAT THERE IS NO SIMPLE QUICK WAY TO UPDATE OR CORRECT the data in both programs simultaneously.. Thats why i decided to just put everytning into the i cloud address brook, and let the one other sit and rot.
then i got smart and said, why don't I delete the outlookaddress book files. and save on confusion.
result - both addresses books and their contents became invisible to outlook.!!!!!! and I can find no way to correct this...to go back to the imperfect world that was.
I did get the outlook contact s back from an archive - but any thing from icloud has become inaccessible from outlook. (fortunately i can get the vcard infformation directly from icloud. but I can't access it from outlook mail.... means no replying, forwarding etc - and a time swallowing nuisance..
aNYONE WILLING TO DUMP SEWAGE ON MICROSOFT AND aPPLE... UNCOOPERATIVE TWITS. - boh should be smacked.

I want a seperate address book for contacts, and another contact list for the phone. Anyone?

Just got an iphone (yay!) and the icloud sync-ed my contact list form my first generation ipad. Hoever, I do not want this info in the contact list the phone accesses (2 different lists). Is there a way to keep them seperate? With the latest operating system (installed this morning) I can't see the contacts I manually entered into the phone unless I download from the cloud (which has EVERY contact in it-not just the manually entered conrtacts). Surely there must be ways to create groups, or different phone/contact lists to access?

till now i don't think thunderbird has multiple address books. but u can try rd party app but still i don't recommend this. If i 'll get any info about this i will definately tell you. sorry but if it won't helps.

Address book : provide contact list import/export from other software

There should be an easy way to import contact information from Gmail accounts, Hotmail, and so forth. They're providing efficient ways to export their database, so it shouldn't be too hard for developers to add this usual feature.
I would agree that the contact export/import procedures usually offered are not user-friendly. But it's not user-friendly either to recreate a contact list of 200+ contacts manually.
I hope this feature will be added in a near future. Thanks. Rodan

Thanks, I'll definitely use this bugreporter in the future.
Concerning this case, I've just found this feature is already implemented.
Address Book > File > Import
Strange I couldn't find any documentation about it online. Well, here it si now, I hope people will see it. Bug closed anyway. :-)

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