Address book scrolling corrupts list

whenever i scroll through my addresses with my trackpad, mouse or tablet, the addresses blur and become unreadable. clicking on the address column snaps it back into focus, but further scrolling corrupts it again. if i switch from "view card & column" to "view card" and back this is cured, until i open address book again. i've had this issue through the past two OSs (panther & tiger) - there are several posts about this here, but no definite fix. any ideas anyone?
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b

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i want to set up address book from existing list
in addition to address i want to include phone #, email

Can you provide more information? Are you trying to gather data via a form to built an address book? You can make a form and ask for people phone number, email, address... I'm not sure what is your 'existing list'. Is it in an excel document? You would have to merge the data collected via the form manually to you existing list.
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LYNC Server 2013 LS Address Book and Distribution List Expansion Web Service error - Event ID 62005

Hi,
Recently, I found some of LS Address Book and Distribution List Expansion Web Service error from Lync 2013 Front End Server, kindly advise help how to solve it. many thanks
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Exception: The server is not operational.
Cause: Unexpected exception occurred during initialization.
Resolution:
Examine exception details in event to determine the resolution.
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Hi,
You can do the following steps to solve the issue:
Please double check the Windows Firewall is turned off.
Please check if the CMS replication update to the latest version.
Make sure Lync Server update to the latest version.
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When renaming an address book through properties, I can no longer see the new address book in my list. Where did it go?

I have about 30 different address books. Some of them where old but i didn't want to delete them. I no longer wanted them at the top of my list so I went to properties and added "z-" to the folder name to have them at the bottom of the list. Now I can't see the address books that I renamed. What happened to them and how do I get them back?

Make hidden files and folders visible:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
'''First locate all address book filenames in thunderbird.'''
* In Thunderbird:
* Help > Troubleshooting Information
* click on 'show folder' button
a new window opens.
If you were going to alter anything you would need to close Thunderbird, but on this occasion you are just looking for information.
* organise the list by 'Type'
* look for all files that have MAB File type
each file will have a .mab extension and these are the address books.
Two address books are default address books called:
abook.mab = Personal Address Book
history.mab = Collected Addresses.
Other addressbooks maybe called eg: abook-1.mab
* Make a list of all the address book.mab filenames. Careful.. as spelling is important.
'''Now to check what filename = what desciption in config editor'''
* In thunderbird:
* Tools > Options > Advanced > General tab
* click on 'config Editor' button
it will tell you to be careful :)
now to locate info for each address book.
'''How to search for each address book using info gained from checking the Profile folder.'''
In top search type: abook.mab
you should see this line:
ldap_2.servers.pab.filename; abook.mab
notice the 'pab' in ldap_2.servers.'''pab'''.filename
In top search type: pab
you will now be able to locate:
* ldap_2.servers.pab.description; Value = Personal Address Book
* ldap_2.servers.pab.dirType; Value = 2
* ldap_2.servers.pab.filename; Value = abook.mab
* ldap_2.servers.pab.position; Value = 2
Using the above method will identify which .mab file in profile uses what info in config Editor.
'''You can do this same method to check to see if the 'Z addressbook name' is in the list and which .mab file is assigned to that description.'''
In top search type the name you assigned: Z addressbook name
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* ldap_2.servers.XXXX.description; Value = Z addressbook name
make a note of the XXXX part in description
In top search type: XXXX - whatever the actual description XXXX said to get the 'description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position'
'''Please report back on results.'''
Did you locate:
eg: ldap_2.servers.XXXX.description; Value = Z addressbook name
or was this still listed as old name without the Z part?
Did you locate all of these 'description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position' for each of the missing address books?
or were only some of these shown? Tell us what you found.
Did you find that there were .mab files in Profile folder but they were missing in Config Editor or in Config Editor but not in Profile folder?
Please state what was found. You can copy paste from the config editor.

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. :-)

Address Book "Edit Distribution List" not working in Lion 10.7.2

I have been told by people in my "Groups" that I am sending to the wrong e-mail addresses. I checked and sure enough so I went to edit the distribution list for that group and it's greyed out. It worked prior to this update. My wifes is still using 10.7.1 and edit didtribution list is not greyed out.....anyone having the same issue or any ideas where it is now or how to re-enable it....or is it just broken? Also I am contented into iCloud.

To add to my original post.... My wifes OS was 10.7.1 and I just finished the update to 10.7.2 and signed into iCloud. I first transfered iCal but left Address Book. When I went into Address Book and checked the Distribution List it was not greyed out. Next I transfered Address Book to iCloud and checked Dist List and it was greyed out. Next I removed Address Book from iCloud (leaving a copy of it on the computer), restarted AB and checked to see if DL was still greyed and it was not. So no fixes here but if you want the functionality of the DL you could turn off Address Book in iCloud temp until they come up with a fix. Important: if you turn off Address Book from iCloud be sure to leave a copy on your puter and of course before doing any of this make a Archive Backup of Address Book. I guess at this point it'll just be a waiting game until a fix comes out. Cheers, Neil

Address Book Groups - Distribution List problems

Recently upgraded to 10.6 and now on 10.6.3 - 2 Problems which are probably related:
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2 - I have a (Smart) Group in Address Book and when I use that group in Mail the wrong email is selected for some of the members of the group - ie the emails used by Mail does not always match the selections in the Distribution List
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Oh no!
until now I though, it was my fault, but it seems to be a bug. I have the same problem with the distribution list. In my system, the mails are allways sent to the upper emailadress, even if the lower adress is highlighted.
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Address book shows separate list preceded by an

My address cards in address book show two separate groups. They are in alphabetical order. How do I merge them into one group? The +merge group+ selection in addressbook menu is greyed out.
I am also getting duplicate cards being created in my mobileme sync address book. And I don't know how to stop it from happening.
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I solved this problem. I had to manually retype cards that were in the list after the " # "symbol into the main stack. Once that was done, I highlighted all the cards in the group after the " # ">Edit>Delete.
This left all my cards now in one stack, which I could now Archive.
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I'm using Mail on my iMAc. I've added a new mail list to my address book. When I use it in the to: , cc: , or bcc: it won't work. It won't even expand (right click the icon in the to: field and click Expand Group. It just clears the to: field.
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David

Is this forum still active? Can someone please help?
How can I create a new mail list using Address Book, and send mail to the contact in that list? I've looked at the tips, and that is exactly the procedure I'm follwoing.
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Apple store wiped HD and reinstalled Software. Need address book from corrupted files on Time Machine. How to get?, Apple store wiped HD and reinstalled Software. Need address book from corrupted files on Time Machine. How to get?

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Blurred address book scrolling

This topic was previously addressed nearly a year ago and left unresolved when it closed. I just discovered a trick that seems to work to clear it up. Open Address Book and go to VIEWS in the menu bar; switch the view to DIRECTORY or CARDS and then go back and switch it to CARDS & COLUMNS. Voilà! For me, it stopped the blurred scrolling. I tested this with different font sizes and so far all is good. This should be a HUGE relief to everyone who has (like me!) been frustrated with this very annoying problem that made the Address Book nearly useless...

As everyone else is saying, I am also finding the same things, menu is sluggish & freezes for no reason since the upgrade to 2.0.
I have also had Video playback (only had this on films after 1 hour of playback) stops and then a black screen with a white apple logo in the center of the screen appears. Sometimes the box recovers back to the menu, other times I have to power if off and back on..
I have the 40Gb device, and this experience is such a shame as I actually liked the 1.1 software as I had no issues, it just did what I wanted. The new features in 2.0 are nice, but it is more important that it works for what I bought the device for, to deliver Video from my Mac.
As I am in the UK I do not care about the Video rental service that is in 2.0. I just want the basic feature to be stable.

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1- After I upgraded to Leopard and subsequently to 10.5.1, I noticed that my address book application went blank (no data). I've tried to import my contact .txt files, or import vCards, but, I keep getting the message that my Address Book database is corrupted.
2- I have also tried to use iSync to sync my address book, or my mobile phone, but, I keep getting a launch failure on iSync 3.0
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For the benefit of other users, it would still be great if you guys would tell us how you resolved the situation....
Meanwhile, I found a solution on another Apple-related forum.... A user there had the same symptoms, and after a bunch of trial-and-error with an extremely knowledgeable guy who was walking the user through various steps, this was the result:
+"trash[ing] the ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/ folder did it... Usually touching that folder brings good karma...glad that it's fixed now."+
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1. I moved the folder, referenced above, to my desktop. (Note that "~" indicates your home folder.)
2. Restarted my macine.
3. Opened the .Mac preference pane, then clicked "Sync"
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4. Clicked the "Advanced" button, selected the MacBook Pro, then clicked "Reset Sync Data" and made sure that I was replacing data on .Mac with the data from the computer (which I knew was good data). In other words, I made sure that the animated arrow was moving away from the computer and toward .Mac, indicating the direction of the data transfer.
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