Address Book Search Function No Longer Works

Using OS 10.7.5 on MacBook Pro. The search funciton in the Address Book stopped working. I am not a i-Cloud user, just synching with my iPhone. Search on iPhone works fine, as well as synch, but not search on the Mac. Any ideas?

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I recently updated my ipad wifi only to the new ios 6.1.2 and initially I had the auto cover lock option which can be seen in the Generals tab, but then it stoped working!! Before the update, the auto cover lock worked fine. So after trying all the options, I then did a complete reset on the ipad and now its gone all together from the General tab!! I can no longer see the "auto cover lock" option.
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Bug in Address Book search function?

Here's an annoying bug in Address Book - maybe this has been noted here before.
Like most people, I like to divide my numbers into smaller blocks for legibility - it makes them easier to memorise.
So +49303912345 becomes + 49 30 391 2345 where the country and area codes are separated by a space.
The problem is that if I search for 12345 it will only give me the first result as it thinks that there is a gap/empty space between the 1 and the 2.
This is unhelpful and rather surprising - anyone else notice this - is it a bug?

Don't think it's a bug... It's the way it works.
Are these phone numbers? and are you entering them into the phone number field?
If there appears a gap/empty space between the 1 and 2, then you should expect that it will think there is a gap/empty space between 1 and 2.
Basically, AddressBook - and the other Spotlight interfaces - treat numbers the same as any other text, so that '1 2345' is no more the same as '12345' than 'a star' is the same as 'astar'.
If you've memorized it by blocks, then it should be easier to enter it by the same blocks.
Of course, if you want to see it change, you can always submit feedback
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Search function no longer works when Mail folder is encrypted

I posted a reply in another forum that has already been marked as answered...BUT I was not satisfied with the answer...Here is the link to that forum for some context:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6362207&#6362207
And here is basically what I posted there:
This problem is a result of my attempt to put my User/Library/Mail folder onto an encrypted disk image, so that my mail images would be encrypted without having to encrypt my WHOLE Account with FileVault (rendering Time Machine virtually useless). Like many, I had to create a symbolic link from the terminal rather than use the Alias...that wasn't a problem. I can send/receive/read/write email all while it stays safely encrypted on the Sparse disk image that I created (by the way THANKYOU for making creating the sparse BUNDLE image an option, this makes it useable for time machine so it doesn't back up the whole thing)...Mail appeared to work perfectly with my folder in the new location
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THANKS! Went thru about 90% of the things listed there. Am Currently going thru the suggestion of the spotlight rebuild thru the terminal.
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Recently was running TB 24.2 under Ubuntu 12.4. All ran great, except could not search the Notes field in my address book. Got help from this forum and installed MoreFunctionsForAddressBook. This made the Notes field available for searching in the Quick Search window and in the Advanced Address Book Search dialog box (Edit > Search Addresses). Problem solved!
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Toad-Hall ---- Thanks very much!!! I completely missed the new version of the plug-in. I upgraded TB to v 31 and wasn't bright enough to think about the add-on compatibility.
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I recently received a 6301 on Orange. It's a great phone with some really nice features.
I use a Mac, so modified iSync to copy all my contacts across (using script from www.james-lloyd.com). This worked fine, and all my contacts are in the phone with full details in the Address Book.
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