Address Book no longer able to import multiple vCards
In Leopard, and at least Tiger before that, when importing vCards into Address Book, you could hold down the Command key and import multiple vCards at once rather than only one at a time. You can no longer do this in Snow Leopard. This is extremely inefficient, especially when I need to import tens of vCards at a time. What used to take 5 minutes now takes 20-30!!
I was using the File>Import function in Address Book. With drag & drop, I can select multiple vCards which, I guess, is what I'll now have to do. Thanks for the workaround.
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Since upgrading to Lion my address book no longer communicates with iTunes? This means that no new information is getting to my iPhone etc? Any ideas? Thanks
Nathan Miah wrote:
Is there absolutely anything else I could do to sort this such as phone Apple Support
If you want.
or maybe install Snow Leopard using the disc it came on with my Mac and just set it up from a Time Machine Backup on my external hard drive (since it works under SL)?
Did you install Lion on an empty partition, or did you upgrade Snow Leopard? If you upgraded, I'd not recommend erasing it, since your backups are apparently gone. It's doubtful Snow Leopard will recognize them.
It's not just backups on the drive either, there are other important things on there, so why won't they show?
Mixing Time Machine backups and other data is not a good idea. See #3 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. It sounds like the whole disk is corrupted.
I just really don't understand how this happened. Could it not be an issue with WD because they haven't issued firmware to support Lion yet?
If this is a simple external HD, connected by USB or FireWire, no, unless you installed some of WD's software on it. That shouldn't prevent it from being seen at all, but anything's possible. -
The search feature in Address Book no longer works
I have over 2,400 contacts. For no apparent reason the search feature in my Apple Address Book no longer works. The Address Book app has quit several times recently, again for no apparent reason. It is probably unrelated, but Preview has also been quitting. I have repaired permissions and used Disk Warrior 4.4 to rebuild the directory. Any thoughts?
That was a while back...after a little research to jog my memory, it had to do with iCloud. I found this on another page, and I think this is what I did to fix it:
"I had the same problem and fixed it a slightly different (and probably safer) way:
Backup your Address Book - File > Export > Address Book Archive
Go into preferences > iCloud - untick syncing for Contacts
When it asks you, tell it to delete the contacts from your local Mac (all your local address cards will be deleted but they will still be in iCloud)
All your cards should now be deleted from Address Book on your Mac
Quit Address Book
Go into preferences > iCloud - tick syncing for Contacts (this will download your contacts into Address Book again)
Open Address Book and after a few secs you should see all your cards and the problem should be fixed"
The important part is to be sure to export your Address Book before doing anything. I think I ended up afater deleting all the cards and quitting address book, I reimported them from the backup I exported. Has been fine since. This is pretty safe as long as you have that exported file. -
Address book does not save my imported contacts
Address book does not save my imported contacts. After quitting and reopening Address book it does not show any contacts (with exemption of myself). Please help!)
Thanks!Were you able to resolve this?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3331742 -
Has the Address Book software changed? Or has Mail changed? For purposes of email, Address Book no longer allows me to find an addressee or several addressees who are members of one of my Groups (or Smart Groups). What happens is this: I open Mail, initiate a new email, put the cursor in the To: box and click the 'Show addresses' icon in the New Message box. The Addresses list shows up in a separate window with an alphabetized listing of all my contacts. It used to allow me to select a Group, but Groups are no longer listed. I have no choice but to select an address (or addresses) from the entire list. Needless to say, this is intolerable.
Ultimately, I have two questions:
What has changed and can I fix it so it works as it used to?
If I can't fix it, what other email/address book software combination works simply and cleanly so I don't have to live with this frustration.This add-on may help:
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
I've had this add-on for so long that I can't remember what it does and does not provide.
If you select a List in your Address Book, so that its contents display at the right, does "Export" not write just the Lists's member Contacts out to the csv file?
It does here, but this may be thanks to the above-mentioned add-on. -
ICal and Address Book no longer syncing with iPhone - HELP!
HELP!
I am a long time Apple user and rely heavily on my iPhone to keep me where I need to be, when I need to be there. I have an iPhone 4 and it is running OS 6.0.1. Everything was working fabulously until recently. Sadly I don't know when the problems started--when I updated to OS 6 OR when I updated iTunes to version 11. Either way, my iCal and Address Book no longer sync with my iPhone. And to add insult to injury, my phone is no longer automatically detecting the AT&T microcell I have in my house. I have to reboot my phone every time I come back in the house--talk about annoying.
I am not super techy, so I am hoping someone can help me with this. I LIVE by my iPhone and as a self-employed person, I can't afford for this device to stop giving me information. I also don't want to do entries on my phone AND computer everytime something changes. I do not want to go back to the more reliable paper calendar and address book.
I have iCloud turned on, and it appears to sync my address book with my iPhone. But I seem to be a mess with iCal and my desktop. And between iCal/Adress Book on my computer and iPhone, nothing is talking.
HELP!!!!I think my company updated Exchange on Friday and since then I cannot sync with Mac Mail, Entourage does not seem to be working either?
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Why is my address book no longer being automatically updated with new entries?
why is my MacBook Pro address book no longer being automatically updated with new entries?
thanks!
Joethanks for the question!
i have an iphone that uses addresses/contacts. i don't use icloud because i was getting doubled calendar entries.
updating is done "via itunes on this computer" -
Add sender to address book no longer working
"Add sender to address book" no longer works. It flashes the menu bar as if it is working, however, when I go to the Address book, the new person is not there. This has been going on for a number of weeks.
Any ideas?Keith,
Since you have confirmed that the maintenance scripts have been used, then you may benefit from the troubleshooting procedures listed in Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption.
I would also suspect .plist corruption with com.apple.mail.plist and/or com.apple.AddressBook.plist.
;~) -
Address Book no longer syncs with google contacts
After my switch to Lion, I'm noticing that my address book no longer syncs with my google contacts??
After I update my contacts in address book, it doesn't show up on google contacts and vice versa.
Is anyone else exprienceing this?¡¡¡Ok, Something worked for me!!!
I have my address book empty, and then this is what I did:
1- Copy Address book app to downloads (or other folder) just to back it up
2- Install AppCleaner
3- Drag and Drop address book ap into app cleaner, make sure that it references to several files (all .plist files etc.) If there are no external references then try to drag and drop your backup, do it until you see the rest of references (uncheck address book widget)
4- After press clean in AppCleaner, it will delete everything.
5- Put back your address book app backup into your applications folder
6- Open it and if your are lucky you will see all the contacts again, they were like hidden....
Then I deleted all the contacts again and set up google account in preferences again, after that it syncs fine!!!
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Hotmail address book no longer works
My hotmail address book no longer works. When I press "To" in the address bar, nothing comes up. If I press "reply" to respond to an email then again, nothing happens. I have to copy and paste the address. The only way I can find out an address is to go into the search box, bring up an old email and paste the address from it. This problem happened a while ago and seems to be after one of the automatic Firefox updates. Please can you advise? Thanks
Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
*Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes -
I have a paid subscription, but am no longer able to merger multiple pdf documents into one pdf. What's up?
Pat:
Below is a copy of an 8/7/2013 email from adobe. I prepaid a one-year subscription, and, until I recently upgraded to Windows 8, I was able to make several dozens of merged pdf documents. I seem to be no longer able to use the merge feature that I had successfully and repeated used. When I search for the merge feature I end up with a request that I pay for an upgrade monthly subscription to use the merge feature.
Tom
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How to import multiple vcard contacts into iphone4
How to import multiple vcard contacts into iphone4
I had a Nokia C6-01 and had to import the contacts to my Iphone 4S. This is how I did it
1. Open Nokia Suite and Click on Contacts
2. Select all contacts. Click on File -> Import Contacts .Specify the folder that you are creating . For ex: C:\vcards.
Now you have multiple .vcf files in this folder.
To combine the multiple .vcf into a single .vcf
a . Open command line interface (click Start -> Run, or windows button + r and type cmd to launch it).
b. Navigate to the folder where multiple vCard files are by entering cd "C:\vcards", if the folder is there.
c. Enter the command copy /a *.vcf combinedfile.vcf in the command prompt.
3. Now add this file as an attachment and mail it to your email address. Open the email on your iphone and click on the attachment.
4. It will prompt you to add the contacts. Now you have all the contacts on your Iphone. -
I'm trying to forward an email to multiple addresses. I want to be able to view my address book and click on the names I want to the email sent to. How can I do this. Have a MacBook Pro. Thanks.
this is not MBPro forum.
you want Maill Community and if you want to lean how to use Mail, start with Help menu and then I assume you would use BCC
http://www.apple.com/support/mail -
Address Book no longer syncs to iPhone
I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on my MacBook, which uses iTunes 10.5.1. My iPhone 3GS is running iOS 5.0.1. I use the OS X Address Book application to manage my contacts. Recently, I noticed that changes were no longer being synched between my MacBook and my iPhone. Other information (such as calendar info) was being synched fine.
I tried to fix this in the following ways:
- Configured iTunes to "Replace information on this iPhone" for contacts (under iTunes' Info tab).
- Reset sync history in iSync.
Neither of these things fixed the problem. The odd thing is that iTunes displays "syncing contacts" for 8-9 seconds every time I sync my iPhone (I have a lot of contacts). So it *seems* as if the contacts info does actually get exchanged between the Mac and the phone. But when I open the Contacts app on my iPhone, it displays "no contacts".
Last week, I got a new, larger hard drive for my MacBook. I installed Snow Leopard on the clean drive and restored my backups, including contacts. In order to make sure everything was really clean, I wiped my iPhone too. Then I tried syncing them. Contacts STILL did not appear on the iPhone. At the time of the first sync, I had no additional software installed on my Mac -- it was just a clean install of OS X with Apple's updates (of OS X and iTunes) applied. Even now, I have only a few additional applications installed (LibreOffice, Audacity, Firefox, Chrome, Opera).
The fact that the problem has persisted even after the reinstallation suggests to me that the problem might be with the contact data itself. But my contacts look fine on the Mac.
Can anyone suggest a possible next step?OK -- problem solved. Here's what I did:
1. Opened the Address Book application.
2. Highlighted all my contacts and dragged them into a new directory that I created under Documents. This created a single vcard file containing all the contacts.
3. Shut down (i.e., File/Close) the Address Book application.
4. Went to ~/library/Application Support/ and renamed the AddressBook directory to AddressBook.bak (so that the Address Book application would no longer find the directory).
5. Opened the Address Book application. It automatically created a AddressBook directory and a new address database containing only the two default addresses (Apple and my own address).
6. Dragged the vcard that I created in step 2 into the open Address Book application.
7. Confirmed that I wanted to import a large number of addresses.
8. When the import was done (about 15-20 seconds), connected my iPhone and did a sync.
Now I have all my contacts back in my iPhone again. But I have lost the group information that I created (business, personal, etc). This is not a big problem. Even if I have to create the groups and assign records to them manually, I can have it done in an hour or so, which is nothing compared to the time I have been wasting trying to get this problem fixed. -
Address Book no longer syncs to iPod nano
I don't know whether this is an iTunes 10.5.2 problem or a Lion problem, but I recently found that iTunes is no longer syncing my address book to my 5G iPod nano. All I get is a zero-byte file with the current file creation time in the nano's Contacts folder. (I AM able to manually export a vcard file from my Address Book.app to the nano, and that is my current workaround.)
iPod: Frequently Asked Questions
iTunes 10 for Mac: Sync contacts, calendars, and other info with iPod, iPhone, or iPad
iPod Nano 5th Gen. User Manual
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