Address Book Prefs

When I want to print a 'List' of addresses from Address Book as I do quite often, is there a way to permanantly set the 'Paper Size' to A4 instead of it defaulting to US Letter all the time? Its really annoying when you forget to change it when printing a list in a hurry!
On this, Address Book 'Help' is about as useful as a chocolate teapot...
TIA

Thanks Linc.
I set everything up as a preset and printed which is fine. However, when you go to print again even selcting the preset the settings remain firmly on US Letter and the Atributes are also reset to their defaults too! Seems the top part of the Print Dialogue has no control over the Address Book bottom part.

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7471811#7471811
However that solution doesn't work.
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Hi
You want the first name first.
Investigate this.
Close Address Book
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*ABNameDisplay Number 1*
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I've read your posts guys. Thanks for your speculation on the "synchronizing with Google" problem. I've just returned to Apple after a ten year affair with Microsoft. It confirms what I suspect but don't technically understand. Basically, Apple's programming is undernourished. Applications seem to be fed into the market without thorough testing or with obvious neglect for certain Apple products. If a product is a big seller then Apple concentrate on the iPhone, for example.
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I have created a smartgroup (1 of 8) to identify all cards not a member of any group (see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1284763). Very strangely, address book hangs every time I click on either and then won't start properly unless I delete "com.apple.AddressBook.plist" in my user library/preferences folder.
So I have tried:
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2) reinstalling address book from the leopard disks - no change;
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so I appeal to you good people, if you help me solve this problem, you can wear a badge which says, I'm more helpful than Applecare.
a mobile me sync does not include smartgroups - so that's a no.
is there a way of deleting the now 3 rogue smartgroups without starting address book? I think this will solve the problem efficiently!
cheers,
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in view group : I had 2 "iCloud" group, and no "on my mac" group !!
and prefs, i found 2 icloud accounts : mac.com and me.com
I remember now that I had problems to create the mac.com
So, I've cancelled the me.com from the address book prefs,
Now I have only iCloud (Mac.com) account, but no "on my mac". So i'm not sync ??
In Addresse book prefs, I have iCloud, and OnMyMac, but for that last one, I have only the option of sync with Yahoo or Google
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In iTunes I have checked Sync Contacts and Sync Calendars. I got a pop-up dialog box telling me that I didn't need to do that because iCloud wasn handling the Sync. But I checked them anyway. And I can't get them to sync on normal iTunes manual sync.
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My Address Book database refuses to sync through iTunes to my iPhone. In iTunes (v9.0.2) in the Info pane for the iPhone, the Address Book database list of groups doesn't show (it's just empty), and the Address Book doesn't sync to the iPhone so the iPhone has no contacts in it until this is fixed. It's a problem for me as my entire business runs on this data in the iPhone - over 5,000 contacts in all.
There seems so be some disconnection between iTunes and the Address Book data.
This problem seems to have arisen after updating from OS 10.6.1 > 10.6.2 and then immediately from iTunes 9.0.1 > 9.0.2.
Any help much appreciated.

I phoned Apple under AppleCare and after about 30 minutes trying various things established that I needed to "Reset sync history…" in iSync preferences. Here's how:
1. Create a folder on desktop in which you will store files to delete later (keep them until problem solved). Call it (let's say) Keeps.
2. Go to Home> Library> Application Support> iSync> SyncLocalCopy> everything - carry all files to the Keeps folder on desktop.
3. Go to Home> Library> Application Support> AddressBook> everything EXCEPT folder named Metadata (or any file carrying that name) - carry all files to the Keeps folder on desktop.
4. Search in Home folder for file: com.apple.isync.plist - carry all files to the Keeps folder on desktop.
5. Restart Mac.
6. Launch iSync. Go to iSync Preferences and click the button at the bottom of the prefs pane "Reset sync history…". Quit iSync when it's done.
7. Restart Mac.
8. Launch iTunes, plug in iPhone. Don't click to sync. Let it go through its setup process (this is NOT syncing - took about 30 seconds for in to do whatever it was doing). Quit iTunes.
9. Restart Mac.
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Sync iPhone.
It worked perfectly for me. I hope it works for you too.

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FYI, I have an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.2 (the latest), and I have never so much as thought about MobileMe.
Until two days ago, I have had no reason to doubt that my iPhone's Contact list is the same as my MacBook's Address Book list. I now have no confidence that the same info. exists in both: I know for sure that at least one contact long present in both has disappeared from the iPhone, yet syncing all contacts neither returns it to the iPhone nor deletes it from Address Book! I need help troubleshooting this contact as well as verifying that there aren't other similar anomalies corrupting my data, hopefully without manually comparing all 685 entries...
Two days ago, a certain number, let's call it (310) 555-5555, popped up in my recents list as a missed call and in my visual voicemail. When I listened to the voicemail, I discovered that (310) 555-5555 was Jane Smith. I remembered entering Jane Smith several months ago, so I thought hmmm, does she have a second number? I tried to add (310) 555-5555 to an existing entry, only to find my iPhone had no entry for Jane Smith anymore at all! I did not delete her myself, and I'm not aware of any 3rd-party app that ought to have affected the entry. I haven't called Jane Smith or (310) 555-5555 in quite some time, so I have no idea how long the entry may have been missing. I searched the whole phone (left of the first home screen)
At the next opportunity, I looked in Address Book on my laptop, and indeed found the expected entry for Jane Smith, (310) 555-5555. I have no idea how she disappeared from my iPhone -- did I or some third-party program delete her? Or did it happen through some sync issue? -- but I naturally worried that when I next synced, the deletion would sync, too, and I would lose the Address Book entry, leaving me without Jane Smith's number at all.
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The results of the sync and my subsequent troubleshooting have seriously undermined my confidence in the fidelity of the sync process. The first time, nothing changed--I still had 684 iPhone, no Jane Smith, and 685 Address Book, including Jane Smith.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Before conecting your phone, open iTunes on your computer and go to Preferences, on the Devices tab check "Prevent...from syncing automatically". Now connect your phone and when it appears in iTunes on the left sidebar click on its name. Go to the Info tab and confirm than your have checked Sync Contacts with Address Book. Now further down on the Info tab under Advanced>Replace information on this iPhone check Contacts. Click Apply and sync your phone. This will replace the contacts on your phone with the contacts in Address Book. (When complete you can go back to iTunes preferences and uncheck "Prevent..." to re-establish automatic syncing if your prefer this.)

I am having trouble trying to get my address book from my mac (just downloaded Lion for this purpose) to my 3G ipad. Set up an icloud account but still confused! Please help !

I updated my mac with os x Lion so that I could accomplish moving my address book from the mac to my new IPad 3G. I also set up an icloud account for this purpose, but I *still* cannot figure out how to move my address book from one computer to the other. When I'm on my mac and try to use bluetooth to export the address book, I'm able to find my ipad but I soon get a message that it does not support the necessary services. I have no idea what's going on and would appreciate any advice. tks in advance, Sarah

blacksheepfibers wrote:
I updated my mac with os x Lion so that I could accomplish moving my address book from the mac to my new IPad 3G. I also set up an icloud account for this purpose, but I *still* cannot figure out how to move my address book from one computer to the other. When I'm on my mac and try to use bluetooth to export the address book, I'm able to find my ipad but I soon get a message that it does not support the necessary services. I have no idea what's going on and would appreciate any advice. tks in advance, Sarah
The address book syncs via iCloud, not Bluetooth or iTunes.
You upgraded to Lion so you could use iCoud.
On the computer. go to Apple menu > System prefs > iCloud.
Sign into your iCloud account.
Tick everything.
This enalbes the se items syncing to iCloud.
On the iPad, Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Create a new iCloud account.
Sign in with the same AppleID as your computer.
Settings > iCloud and turn everything on.
BAM!
That is all you need to do.
Your contacts (and all other checked items checked) will sync between computer and iPad.
No need to use iTunes

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I'm migrating from a thousand year old Palm Pilot that has served me so well to an iPhone. So it's time to get my contacts into OSX Address Book.
I have tried moving the data a couple of ways - exporting vCards and text files from the Palm Desktop software.
I did extensive editing of the text file in MS Excel to get the data into good order.
I have set up a template in the Address Book preferences to create fields that I want/need. Some are generic default field names, some have custom names. eg. I want to see a field called "Bus. Phone" not one called "work". Call me picky.
I get the same basic result no matter if I import the vCard file or a text file - The names of the fields just show up with very generic names in the imported data. I should note that creating a NEW record seems to use the field names that I have specified in the preferences.
Also, when importing the text file, Address Book asks me to assign the field names for certain fields (while it seems smart enough to know what labels to use for other fields all on it's own). However, the Field Names available in the drop down menu ARE NOT the ones that I have set up in the prefs. I seem limited to the generic default field names only.
Can anybody tell me how to get the field names to be what I want them to be for address data that is being imported like this?
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Allen

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Address Book doesn't sync UP to iCloud, but syncs back down..

(Sorry, Winston, and maybe Roger, I must be developing Alzheimer's ..I just cannot understand how this iCloud system works..)
I've searched through hundreds of queries and answers, but cannot find a similar problem ..but maybe I simply haven't looked hard enough.
Question on behalf of my good lady ..and I've been tearing my hair out over this for WEEKS..
She has 3502 contacts in her Address Book on her OS X Lion 10.7.4 MacBook Air. She has two iPhones. They're both running iOS 5.1.1. She has enabled iCloud on ALL these three devices, using her @me.com identity and appropriate password.
She updates Address Book contacts ONLY on her MBA - for sync'ing to her phones - and she does NOT update any Contacts info on her phones in order to have them transferred BACK to her Mac. That's how she prefers to work.
The only way that her Address Book contacts will sync UP to iCloud from the Mac appears to be to select 'All on My Mac' within Address Book, and to Export as vcards to a file on her Mac, and then, in the online iCloud Contacts webpage, to Import that file of vcards. All well and good, but that seems to ignore all her various Groups; everything ends up bundled all into one group. (Perhaps each Group in her Mac's Address Book needs to be separately Exported and then Imported, but surely it shouldn't be as long-winded as that.)
(About 402 of these contacts are not accepted by the online iCloud Contacts, although they seem to fall within the requirements of not being too many, not being too large, etc. But that's a separate problem which I'm still investigating ..maybe the names are formatted incorrectly; I'll keep working on that separately..)
Anyhow: by explicitly Importing all those Address Book contacts into the iCloud Contacts, they then immediately start to get distributed - correctly! - to her iPhones ..but also back into the Address Book on her Mac, thereby DUPLICATING them all in Address Book! (They CAN be seen as SINGLE entries by choosing 'All iCloud'.)
I cannot understand the opaque instructions in all of the iCloud documentation. NONE of the documentation which I've studiously read (online, in System Prefs, in every Help file I can find) seems to indicate a DIRECTION for this iCloud sync'ing.
WHERE - if there is such a place - does one specify that contacts should go only UP FROM the Mac, and not BACK DOWN to the Mac?
There seem to be options only to turn ON sync'ing (or off), but not the DIRECTION of sync'ing, or which device(s) take precedence. (..In iTunes - when sync'ing phones to a Mac with a cable - there's a preference to over-write EITHER the host Mac with data FROM a phone, or to over-write an iPhone's data with data FROM the Mac..)
So I'm asking..
(a) Can one specify a DIRECTION when turning on sync'ing for a device?
(b) With iCloud sync'ing turned ON on a Mac, is there any known reason why Address Book contacts should not send themselves UP to the iCould, instead of having to be manually Imported?
(c) Does one Export Groups individually? ..But what if a name is in more than one Group ..does it get duplicated online in iCloud?
(d) Is there not the intelligence within the iCloud facility for the system to NOT distribute back, or duplicate, contacts to the device which is the SOURCE of those contacts? Should it not do a comparison between iCloud and a device, and then recognise that those contacts already exist on the remote device, and therefore NOT distribute them BACK again to the SOURCE? (..Or am I having too high expectations?..)
Many thanks in anticipation, and I'm so sorry to be such a nuisance if this has already been answered a zillion times before.
(Yes, Winston; she has almost as many iPhones as you have AppleTVs!)
All best wishes,
David.

David, nice to hear from you again, hope you are well.
This user tip might help you understand how accounts work with Address Book.
I believe you have duplicates because you have two sets of contacts. "iCloud" and "On My Mac". Once you have created all your contacts in the iCloud account, you should delete them from On My Mac.
You can move contacts simply by dragging and dropping from one account to the other, you don't need to export them all to the desktop (although doind so will serve as a good back up if all goes wrong). You should note that this copies them though rather than simply move them, so you'll need to delete the old set when you are done.
As for preserving groups from the On My Mac Account, you can't but you can simplify recreating them by copying contacts (drag and drop) from an on my mac group to an empty group in iCloud.
Not sure about the contacts that you are struggling to move.
Many aspects of iCloud are difficult to understand, have a mull through what I've said so far and come back if everything still doesn't fall into place.

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I am fairly new with the imac and learning how to use the address book. Previously we had an adddress book on Windows where we could list every person in the family including the children with their birthday.
If I want a family contact and list the spouse and children in this contact it appears I can only have the birthday of the contact. So do I have to start a new contact for every member of the family in order to have their birthday listed and sync with ICal? If so how do I keep the family together? Hope I don't have to make a group for every Family in order to do this!
Thanks for any information. Hope i'm missing something!

the script did not work for me
python fixBirthdays
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "fixBirthdays", line 6, in <module>
import AddressBook
ImportError: No module named AddressBook
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this is what isee for the date field.
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year is not negative either.
i unchecked and checked birthday calendar in iCal. exited iCal after uncheck, relaunched iCal and checked that option.
no show of the birthdate.
stumped.

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I thought I was a mac expert but I'm not, listen : I can't make Address Book to share its contacts.
I set up everything in the AB Preferences > Accounts > Share, but nothing happens.
No publication of the contacts.
Should I mention that I am a MobileMe member, and that the account is correctly setup in MobileMe prefs pane…
The recipient of the invitation gets an empty contacts list from me (which makes sense…).
Any clue ?
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