Address Book or Contacts button no longer in Mail toolbar

I realize the Address Book app has been renamed to Contacts but it used to be very convenient to have an icon for it in the Mail toolbar. I can't seem to find a way to do that now. Anyone have any tips on this? Thanks

Doesn't have the same functionality :-(
With the Contacts Button in the toolbar it was possible to cmd-click to select multiple contacts, with the + button, it is only possible to select a single e-mail address.
I do get hate it when "upgrades" remove functionality that I regularly use for no obvious reason :-(
Larry

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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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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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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?
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Apple changed the application name.

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

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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.
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or
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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.
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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.
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Okay, I don't know precisely when this happened, but I guess it might have happened when I upgraded to Leopard. I rarely used Address Book, but I would add contacts of some of my friends to in every now and then from Mail. Right click on the address in Mail and select "Add to Address Book".
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"The ones with the v-card icon are already supposed to be in addressbook, and so, the button goes gray."
Yah. But they don't appear in Address Book anymore.
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Hmm.

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 ..
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* 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;
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The only back up of my address book that I have is on a Time Machine backup for my old computer which I no longer have.
I have a new computer that I did not do a migration to (from my old computer). But I want to put my contacts from the Time Machine backup (from my old computer) onto my new computer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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.

Address Book or Contacts button no longer in Mail toolbar

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