Address Book: Merging contacts drops information
Since some time my address book app shows a weird behavior: When I merge two contacts information is dropped. If one entry had the mobile number and the other the work phone the merged result only shows the work phone but not the mobile number. Also addresses are lost this way. Anything I can reset?
I finally found out a workaround:
I copied all VCF to a folder on the Dashboard, deleted all contact from the Address Book and imported them again. So now I can at least use the "first name" and "last name" field. But I expect merged contacts in the future to not work properly either.
So my question is not really answered I think.
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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.
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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.
Cheers.
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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 ? -
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, 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'
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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 "Merge Cards" is losing unique information
The Merge Cards function has stopped working. Instead of combining all the info on two cards, it preserves only some of it. I can't see how it selects which info it preserves, but it is certainly not all that it should preserve. What can I do to restore the old functionality?
I too am experiencing frustrating difficulties with Apple Address Book.
I am trying to merge my Gmail contacts with my Address Book contacts (and then with an export via Yahoo Address Book of my Facebook contacts).
The problem is that in Gmail I keep everyone's old email addresses on their contact card to make it easier to find old emails from the same person... you know when someone has moved from job to job.
I name these in Gmail as "Old" and often there are up to 5-6 emails.. some "Home", some "Work" and some my custom "Old".
When I import the Apple VCF export from Gmail into Apple Address Book it tells me there are duplicates. I click on review duplicates. A whole lot of information is not being preserved when the two cards are being "merged".... it just deletes stuff randomly :X
Any assistance as to how to get around this would be appreciated!
Cheers. -
Custom fields in address book merged in pages document
I viewed this Paragraph below from the following link on the Apple Site
http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/iwork/sara.html
As an administrative tool, she says, “All the documents we create with Pages — contracts, correspondence, receipts — are set up with data fields for the customer information I keep in my Address Book.
The drag-and-drop ease of Pages’ Mail Merge is just huge for us. Not only names and contacts, but wedding dates, locations, and the details of the service package they’ve ordered. So I can just drag the contact over any document, and it automatically populates the fields with the client’s information. This ensures that all our crucial customer information stays up to date and in one place, and we never have to duplicate work when we create documentation.
__ I cant find out how to do this as all the forums say this is not possible. I have contacted the person but do not have a response from them as yet. I have tried to do this but it wont populate the fields into the pages document..hmmmmm
Can this be done as describedBroker1972 wrote:
Sorry! I reposted because it wasn't answered.
Does Apple post this stuff on their site that the program cant do?
Did you check out the link? Did I read the article wrong? Can we advise them of this?
It seems that you don't understand what this forum is.
Here we are users trying to help other users.
The terms os use ask everybody to search in the existing thread before asking a question.
It seems that you didn't do that because searching in
"more options"
"iWork '08"
with the keyword "Addressbook"
gave some threads in which I peeked:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6559156
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6374991
So, as you may see, I checked the links, I knew what was written in them.
There is no false advertising or misleading here because the contents of these forums is not written by Apple's employees, just by users as you are.
So, I repeat: you reposted when the response was already available:
_iWork components are unable to import custom fields from AddressBook._
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 15 février 2008 16:30:55) -
Hi
I have a simple pages doc with basic merge fields for contact and address details. It all works fine when dragging and dropping address cards from address book when those details are located "on my mac" however the merge fields don't recognise the info when I drag and drop a card from a contact stored in either my hosted exchange address book or my shared cardDAV address book.
When I drag a card from a contact to my pages doc the information reverts back to the merge codes if that contact is being dragged from an address book other than the one located on my mac.
Can anyone shed any light on if this is possible?
ThanksAccording to Apple:
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/addressbook-server.html
This is all supposed to just work.
If you find that it isn't:
+Menu > Pages > Provide Pages Feedback+
Also as Snow Leopard is a recent install you are entitled to Apple's support. Contact them and see what they can offer.
I don't know what country you are in but search for the local phone number starting here:
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
I highly recommend getting AppleCare with your computer as this also offers software support for 3 years and in my experience has been well worth the money.
Peter -
Address Book - Merging w/ Word
Hey There Knowledgable Apple Friends!
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to merge the information that I have in address book into a word document. For example, I do bookings for artists and send them to colleges. I already have the colleges information in my address book, and I don't want to copy and paste it all into the word document. Does anyone know if it's possible to merge these?
Thanks so much!
BjorkYou have three options:
1. Entourage Option (the least easy):
Make sure your contacts in AddressBook and in Entourage are synchronized (you need to update entourage to its latest version). Create a mailmerge category in it, and add your contacts one by one to this category. Entourage is really bad at this, as you can only search by Name or Company and not by Country or City (so you are out of luck if you want to mail everyone in a given city!).
Move into Word and do your mailmerge. Unlike the equivalent on the PC, you can't just select a few contacts, it will use all of the contacts you have available. Your best option is to mailmerge only the contact in the mailmerge category you previously defined.
2. Buy iWork and do the mailmerge from iWork. This is just as easy, but AddressBook is so stupid that it will not allow you to display per country, so again create a 'mailmerge' group, and add your contacts one by one to that Group.
3. Buy Parrallel, install Windows and Office and do it from Outlook who can display sory per country or per city. You do not need to create an additional mailmerge group, you will then work from Word.
Sadly, Apple did not put much thought into its AddressBook when using in the context of a commercial application. On the other hand, Microsoft did something nice but with too many shortcomings.
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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
ThanksI 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. -
Address Book Merge results in *Crash*
My goal is to 1) eliminate all duplicates in my Address Book and 2) sync the fixed address book across all devices via iCloud.
In 10.7.2 I select "Look for duplicates" and the Address book finds like 8000 dupes. I select MERGE. It starts to merge...but then Crashes.
What should I do?Peter, that is not a solution -- try selecting the same contact again from spotlight and you'll get the same "Import" dialog box, asking you what you want to do.
The expected behavior from Address Book is to open the existing contact.
No other application does this from Spotlight that I'm aware of, and after 7 years of OS X, this is still very, very annoying.
I wish there were a fix -- I'm activley looking and will report back. -
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. RodanThanks, 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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