Address Book Search Problems

My searches in my address book are turning up false results.
I search for a particular name or company and it returns results that have no association whatsoever with the query.
If I type out someone's full name, then it only returns the correct result. But if I type out a comany name or a partial name, then the results include all sorts of unassociated contacts.
Anyone have any ideas as to what may be happening? It is really quite annoying.

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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!
Now have upgraded to TB 31.2.0. Quick Search window still works fine, including searching the Notes field. However, the Notes field is no longer listed in the Advanced Address Book Search, AND the Advanced Address Book Search does not work at all. I get zero results for any search on any field.
Is the Advanced Address Book Search broken in TB 31.2.0? If not, any ideas on what I might have set up wrong to keep it from functioning? Any diagnostic I could run?
Also, does MoreFunctionsForAddressBook no longer add fields to the Advanced search?
I have worked on this for hours, with no luck. Suggestions are welcomed.

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.
With MoreFunctions 0.7.1, my Advanced Search (Edit > Search Addresses) now has a lengthy list of search-field choices, including the Notes field. This is a life saver for me, since that's where all my keywords are.
You really bailed me out on this one! Many thanks.

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I tried the solution given here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6992129
However, if I type "rag" in the address book search field, it finds two contacts without highlighting any string within them. Furthermore, I can't see "rag" there.
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Austin Kinsella1 wrote:
Quit Address Book and drag ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb to the desktop. It will be rebuilt from the details in Metadata when you restart AB. I find this fixes the problem - but I don't know what causes it.
AK
Wow. Worked perfectly! I noticed I started to have this problem after the 10.5.2 update.

Lion address book search

lion address book search no longer works - it did a few days ago.. any ideas how to fix?
have just made spotlight reindex the disc. no joy.

Barney 15E has a fix:
If you have MobileMe or any other syncing of your contacts, turn it off.
Open Address Book and archive your Address Book (File, Export, Address Book Archive).
Close Address Book
Go into your user/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder and delete the addressbook.abcddb file.
Start Address Book and see if all is ok.
If so, turn syncing back on if appropriate.
I don't know if this will work for your problem. I haven't seen those errors, but I haven't looked for them, either.
The addressbook.abcddb is database that indexes the contacts that are stored in the metadata folder. If that gets corrupted, you'll see things like you describe. Address Book will recreate it when you delete it.

MS Exchange Mail Profile has address book search issues

We have recently upgraded to
OS X Mountain Lion and configured successfully Mail profile for MS Exchange server 2010. Emails send and receive has no issues. But address book search does not work, e.g. while composing Email, we write last name of the contact, which should show me possible contacts in the address book. But that is not happening. I know the contact is there in my Exchange address book. But it simply does not show up in compose mail To: dialog box with last name written.
Pls help me over come the issue urgently.
Thanks
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Sr. Manager IT
LML LIMITED
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Same type of problem here, although I'm not sure about the precise error messages.
I have 3 machines, and have tested two of them on the corporate network with the exchange server, but that did not really improve anything but my frustrations.
It seems that Mail can be set up with the auto-discovery feature plus a few extra things from our IT guys, as the auto-set-up function is not really enough to get things working here. I wonder if that is the reason why SL cannot make things happen by itself, since I also have to enter some settings manually when trying to get MS Entourage to work, e.g. the full address to our "Exchange server" which is something like: mail.domain.dk/exchange/[email protected]
I'm really sorry to have to say this, buy having 3 separate apps (iCal, Mail and AdressBook) does not seem to make things easier to set up, while once you get Entourage working then everything is set, although one has to live with awfully designed user-interfaces.
Another thing that the MS app is asking for, which can not be set anywhere - to my knowledge in Mac apps - is "Domain" which for some reason at my company is not the "mail-server" name but another name. I guess that to get the Mac app's to really be working smoothly in the Exchange servers, we need to have the same options for entering site-specific information (as the domain name).
One interesting thing in all this is that my iPhone has been working flawlessly for a year now, and does not seem to have any issues with the Exchange server.
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Messenger Express: How do I add the Directory Server to the address book search tool?

In Messenger Express (ME) how do I add the Directory Server (DS) to the address book
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ACI for corporate address book search

Hi,
I am using IDS52 and IMS52. My exisiting domain is abc.com. Due to certain circumstance, I have created another domain called; xyz.abc.com under the same messaging server. I do not want users from abc.com to see xyz.abc.com email address when they do a corporate address book search using their email client, eg:outlook express.
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Hi Jim,
I was able to reproduce this on IWC 137631-10 (latest patch).
This is related to an existing bug, which is not fixed yet:
Bug 6795529 Corporate address book - no VLV index: search by firstname/lastname/email doesn't work
According to the developers, if VLV is not enabled in IWC, IWC/Convergence will only search by displayname (even if the user chooses lastname). The bug fix is to NOT display the options to search by lastname etc, if VLV is not enabled.
The search by lastname works for me after I enable VLV in IWC, as described in the IWC admin guide:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Sun+Convergence+Administrative+Tasks#SunConvergenceAdministrativeTasks-vlvbrowsingdirectoryserver
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Sun+Convergence+Administrative+Tasks#SunConvergenceAdministrativeTasks-HowdoIconfigureConvergencetomakeuseofVirtualListView(VLV)forCorporateDirectory%3F
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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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I recently received a 6301 on Orange. It's a great phone with some really nice features.
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It would be too long to go into details, which seem to change by the day anyway. All I know is it's broken. Is there a way to reinstall? Or do some kind of diagnostic?
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Address Book Search Feature Died

I'm baffled. One minute I'm using Address Book fine. The next, I type any text in the search box and the results come up blank.
All my contacts are still there. They show up if I click on "All" or on any of my groups I've created.
But I cannot search for a name. With 1400 names that's a lot of manual searching to do.
Any suggestions?

Don’t reinstall anything. Your data is stored within your home folder, not in the application itself. Try this:
1. In Address Book, do File > Back up Address Book, just in case.
2. Quit Address Book, Mail, and any other applications that might use Address Book for something. Or just quit all applications to be on the safe side.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Caches/ and move the Address Book and com.apple.AddressBook folders to the Trash (there is no need to empty the Trash yet). Check whether the problem is fixed.
4. If the problem persists, quit all applications again, go to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ and trash any ABPerson.skIndex or ABPerson.skIndexInverted files you may see there. Check whether the problem is fixed.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

Address Book SEARCH does not work anymore

Since the last week or so, my "Address Book" does not search at all anymore for any contacts on iCloud (which is where I have all my contacts). I saw others had a similar problem, and that one person was able to fix it -> https://discussions.apple.com/message/17417340?searchText=Address%20Book%20SEARC H%20does%20not%20work%20anymore#17417340 -> but this fix does not work for me. Interestingly it searches if I have contacts "On my Mac", which I usually don't.
I tried exporting my address book and re-inporting it (replacing all contacts), but it did not change anything.
Was anyone able to fix this besides the person in the above linked discussion?

YEEHAH !!!
I HAD THE SAME "SEARCH" ISSUE, HOWEVER I AM NOT USING iCLOUD... so my situation was yet slightly different I guess, I tried a bunch of things (exporting, reimporting etc.. Nothing worked..).
FINALLY WHAT WORKED WAS: I deleted everything in the Application Support/AddressBook EXCEPT the Metadata folder. When I relaunched AddressBook.. everything worked fine again, searches etc.. and all icons even reappeared I guess they are also kept with the metadata info not jsut the images folder since I had deleted it) .. and all my contacts from Facebook that I had synched using Cobook and some other utility before that are also there...
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I have a strange synchronization problem. I am using Missing Sync 6.0.2 and a Tungsten E2 on my Mac. If I modify an entry on my Palm, the entry is changed on my Mac. However, I can no longer search for the entry using the search field in address book. The updated entry is there if I scroll through the entire list of all entries. Spotlight can also find it, as can Launch Bar. I have read on these Apple support pages that there is an issue where the AddressBook-v22.abcddb file in user/Library/Application Supprt/Address Book apparently does not get properly updated with the new entry information. Some have suggested that tossing out this file and allowing Address Book to create a new one fixes this issue. However, it does not. Tossing this file (and getting a new one created) results in the OLD, unmodified entry replacing the recently altered one in address book. How is this possible? How can there be an old unaltered version after it was supposedly overwritten by a new entry in Missing Sync/Sync Services? I can do some Missing Sync tricks (delete the address book entries, reset Sync Services, synchronize) to get my Tungsten to overwrite the Mac and restore order. However, this is a reproducible problem and will recur the next time I modify an entry on my Palm. Any thoughts?

i've seen the same missing search problem with new entries, but i believe those show up after re-starting the address book.
another, similar issue, trying to get my treo 650 to sync with leopard. i've just started using missing sync but i've lost all the contacts on my palm.
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i'm not sure if this odd-ball behavior has anything to do with me not being able to get the contacts to sync correctly on the treo.
i was able to restore the treo contacts from a backup, but am still unable to get the treo contacts to update to the macbook (10.5.1)
will look forward to progress that anyone achieves.
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Fortunately, I had done an Archive my address book just the other day. Unfortunately, it didn't help. I went to restore from the Archive using "Import" and "Address Book Archive". It warned me it was about to replace my entire address book with the Archive, but then nothing happened. All my contacts disappeared, but then all of them came back again, still doubled. I know it was not doubled when I did the archive, so it didn't really restore my Archive.
I finally fixed my doubled contacts problem by doing a one way sync from my second computer (which had not yet been affected by this) to .mac and then a one way sync from .mac to my laptop. I then turned off .mac syncing.
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All is back now but I won't turn .mac syncing or shared editing back on until I understand what happened.
Anyone else see these issues?

leopard 10.5.1 on macbookpro. instructions to fix missing sync for my treo 650 including backing up (exporting) then restoring the address book. i also am unable to restore.
the backup archive shows 6 MB.
i click import, choose the archive, verify that i want to replace all. the address book then shows only the address that was highlighted before import, still shows 1152 cards, but no other cards are visible. verified the search box is empty.
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