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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.
Sorry if these topics have been already discussed but I did a search under AddressBook and could not find any previous discussions about these.

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.
In case you are wondering, I tried to highlight the unwanted cards and Merge with other group. Merge would work but did not remove the secondary list. It also created duplicate cards in MobileMe after syncing. Only the above method formed only one card stack and removed the unwanted one.

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I think it's me not making myself clear. It would be nice if the address book was showing in the format bar of a new message also is it possible to remove the to and just have the Bcc for the email address to send to?
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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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HT2486 My mail account is linked to my address book. The address book shows First Name, Last Name. When I try to insert a name into an email, the order is reversed...Last Name, First Name. How can I make the email read in the same order...First Name, Las

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I don't have any problem with my system. My guess is there is something there you aren't quite getting. I'd recommend a visit to your Apple Store, AASP or to contact AppleCare so they can coach you personally.
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LYNC Server 2013 LS Address Book and Distribution List Expansion Web Service error - Event ID 62005

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And it would be my Mothers! I don't sync over air. Always sync through iTunes,, and I have marked "all iCalendars to sync".. I have 3 calendars plus a Birthday's one. I also have a "Birthdays Calendar". After I sync, all the Birthdays EXCEPT this particular one are there. My Birthdays are set up from my Address Book. I presume that is how most of my Birthdays got to appear in the Birthdays Calendar. I can't understand why this particular one doesn't show up. I have deleted the contact (my mother), and re-input, including birthday(obviously), but won't appear still after sync on my iPhone. I did try a separate entry into iCal, adding a Birthday event, and this time, that one showed up after Sync. Can anyone explain, why the separately added on into iCal showed up in my iPhone, and the birthday attached to my address contact in Address book didn't .. or is it a quirk (black hole event).

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I looked a lot closer and apparently the shows I bought before are just gone. I went back to the store to repurchase only to be told I already bought them but if I want to I can buy them again. Not redownload but actually repurchase. So no, not so simple.
Something must have gotten corrupted and apparently once that happens then things get squirrly real fast. That's ok, I have an engineering degree and am computer literate. Imagine my mom trying to mess with this? No way.
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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
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a new window opens.
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'''How to search for each address book using info gained from checking the Profile folder.'''
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ldap_2.servers.pab.filename; abook.mab
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* ldap_2.servers.pab.description; Value = Personal Address Book
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In top search type: XXXX - whatever the actual description XXXX said to get the 'description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position'
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Thanks, I'll definitely use this bugreporter in the future.
Concerning this case, I've just found this feature is already implemented.
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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

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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

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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.
Did anybody file allready a bug-report to apple?
Regards
Robert

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