Address book slow on mavericks

I have a early 2008 Mac pro desktop with 6 gigs of ram. After I installed Mavericks my address book (which is very large) takes forever to do anything. It takes 30 seconds to click on something. It was super fast on OS 10.8. Is there anything I can do to rebuild it or make it faster?

I just noticed that there is no address book in Mavericks and that it has changed to Contacts instead. When I copied all of my applications to the new system I guess the address book copied from my older system. That might be why it is not working.

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Address Book - Slow?

I have about 250 contact in my address book, with about 10 groups and 2 smart groups.
It's painfully slow already!! Is this expected? Are the smart groups a bad idea to use on a regular basis? With only 250 contacts it will freeze up for like 10-15 seconds every click.

Address Book and all applications that use it are extremely slow, only in Snow Leopard. My MacBook Pro running Leopard is fine.
I hear from other forums that this is due to Smart groups.
How come??? And how come this hasn't been fixed yet?? Complaints on Apple run forums go back almost two years!! Does no-one from Apple monitor these forums?
I need my Smart groups - I use them all the time - all answers to forum complaints have ended up saying DELETE YOUR SMART GROUPS. I don't want to do this, I want the bug fixed.
Can anyone tell me when this might happen?

How do I import contacts from address book backup into mavericks?

After upgrading to Mavericks, I cna not access my user files to restore the content of apps such as address book. Help please?

Sorry, I'm confused by your post. What does I cna not access my user files mean? Which user files? On a backup that you made before you upgraded?
Did you make a backup before you upgraded? How did you make the backup?
How did you upgrade?

OS5 - Address Book Slow or Does Not Respond

I updated to OS5 and find that my address book is not functioning properly. It looks like by MacBook Pro is searching the cloud vs searching the laptop. How do I get the address book search to default to my hard drive, not the cloud?

First off, do a simple reboot: With the BlackBerry device powered ON, remove the battery a few seconds and then reinsert the battery to reboot.
Does this fix your address book?
If not, let me ask if you have added a Gmail email address in the past month, about when this odd behaviour began?
Can you look at Options > Status > press the Meny key > Database Sizes.
Scroll down to Address Book, do you see more than one listed?
What do you see?
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Outlook access address book slow when sending from Word

We use Outlook 2013 in cached mode together with Exchange 2013 CU5.
If somebody send an email from outlook and click on the "TO"-button to select a recipient, the address book appears without delay.
If i do the same, but send the email from word with "send as attachment" and click then on the "TO"-button, it takes sometimes till 5 minutes till the address book appears.
The exact same problem happens also for the users which use Outlook 2010.

Hi,
I'm not able to reproduce this problem on my side, please try the following:
1. Switch Outlook to work in Online Mode: Go to Account Settings -> Account Settings -> Double click the account name -> Uncheck "Use Cached Exchange Mode", click Next and Finish, restart Outlook and check if the problem exists when sending from
Outlook in Online Mode.
2. Have Word work in Safe Mode: Press Win + R, type "winword.exe /safe" in the blank box, press Enter. Try to send the attachment from Word, check if the problem persists. If no, consider to disable the suspicious add-ins to determine which one caused the
problem.
I'm looking forward to your reply.
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Address Book Slow Adding Pictures

Upon adding pictures to contacts, the Adddress Book app begins working very slow. Lots of spinning wheels, and waiting to load picture edit box, and then anything else in the app is slow after that.
Any ideas to remedy?
thanks!

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Contacts/Address Book slow loading on new iPhone 5

I sync "Contacts" through iCloud. I had a very slow loading problem on a previous iPhone 4S. Now on a brand new iPhone 5, I have the exact same problem. After selecting a contact, it takes a long time for the contact details to display. Everything else works fine, just the "Contacts". What's wrong? Does anyone else experience this problem? What can be done to fix it? Thank you!

Hello there littosnack,
I was thinking that if you restored a backup of the previous phone to this one, then the issue may have been copied over to the iPhone 5. I think it would be a good idea to restore the phone as new, and setup your icloud account with the device but do not restore from a backup. If the issue does not persist, then I would recommend setting up your phone from the ground up.
Backup your data first just make sure your content is safe.
Before you jump into that I might recommend sections 1, 3, and 5 of our iPhone Troubleshooting Assistant found here: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/phone/
Here is section 1 to get you started:
Restart iPhone
To restart iPhone, first turn iPhone off by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button until a red slider appears. Slide your finger across the slider and iPhone will turn off after a few moments.
Next, turn iPhone on by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Is iPhone not responding? To reset iPhone, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least 10 seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
If your device does not turn on or displays a red battery icon, try recharging next.
iOS: How to back up
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766.
And
iTunes: Restoring iOS software
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414.
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How to import outlook address book to apple

How to import OUtlook 2010 address book to OS Mavericks?

I'm really struggling here - nothing is working...When I import my CSV file, I get the dialog box Text File Import. My contacts show up - 1 of 1745 is indicated in the bottom. I then map the correct fields to my CSV file. I then click OK, and nothing happens. The only way to close this dialog box is to click Cancel.
I also tried ABFiller and this does not work. I followed the instructions, and after selecting my PST file, and click Begin to import contacts, nothing happens.
Any other thoughts out there?
Thanks!!

How can I migrate from Outlook 2011 to iCal and Apple Address Book in Mavericks now that synching is no longer possible?

Now that I am on Mavericks and no longer able to sync between my iPhone/iPad and Outlook 2011 on my MacBook Pro, I'm finally taking the leap (which I should have done long ago) and abandoning Outlook 2011 all together (doesn't help that Outlook now prompts me to rebuild by Identity multiple times per day). I am hoping to export from Outlook to iCal, Address Book, etc, but I would love it if someone could check my steps.
Delete iCal and Apple Address Book content -- Because I have old data in iCal and Address Book (that was synched before I upgraded to Mavericks), I planned to delete this data as follows:
Manually deleting my multiple calendars in the iCal app
Go to Go>Home>Library>Calendars and drag "Calendar Cache" to trash
Go to Go>Home>Library>Caches and drag "com.apple.iCal" and "com.apple.AddressBook" to the trash
Go to Go>Home>Library>Application Support and drag "Address Book" to the trash
Export Outlook 2011 Calendars to iCalIs there a file format that I can use to export from Outlook 2011 and then import into iCal? I will use this file format to individually export each of my calendars from Outlook 2011 and import them into iCal.
Export Outlook 2011 Contact List to Apple Address BookIs there a file format that I can use to export from Outlook 2011 and then import into Apple Address Book?
Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi acs4055,
As per your query I found a relevant solution for resolving this, actually I haven’t tried the steps you wrote here in your query. But I found a solid key answer for exporting from Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) Outlook 2011 to iCal for Apple mail. This is possible through Drag and Drop method via this you can undoubtedly migrate Outlook 2011 Calendar to ical format.
Hope it will assist you and you will be able to attain a desired solution.

Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.

Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can;t see a symbol for address book.

Where are addresses kept on MAIL? I don;t like the new format at all. Frances
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From: Frances Topping <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: - Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.
Date: August 25, 2014 at 9:46:01 AM EDT
To: discussions-replies <[email protected]>
Old Entourage is POP and new Mavericks MAIL is IMAP I believe. I don;t know how to export in the forms you mention. Frances

Maverick won't permit syncing Address Book or Calendar by USB to iPhone or iPad and permits only syncing by iCloud, which I don't want to use. Any ideas on how to sync without using iCloud?

Maverick won't permit syncing Address Book or Calendar by USB cable from my MacBook Air to my iPhone and iPad and permits syncing only by iCloud. Mountain Lion permitted this via the Info tab on iTunes. I don't want to use iCloud. Any ideas with Maverick on how to sync Address Book and Calendar from computer to iPhone and iPad without using iCloud?

ymcneil - thanks for the work around. But isn't it amazing Apple forces us to do this to maintain our privacy.
I live in Australia where there are good privacy laws protecting citizens. I do not want to be forced to use iCloud when the data sits in the USA with weaker privacy laws and also able to be seen by the US Government under the Patriot Act. Further I suspect Apple will interrogate my contacts and calendar for commercial purposes and I do not want that either.
I chose to synch my calendar and contacts with my iphone and ipad. I have relied for years on carrying around my phone with my diary on it. I can no longer do that.
Whoever made this decision at Apple has to be someone who knows little about the world. I can actually see EU regulators getting very annoyed by this.
I too woud like the itunes mac to iphone/ipad local backup given back.
In the meantime - thanks for the work around

Address Book Sync running slow parallels and mac (iCloud)

Briefly, every time that "address book sync" becomes active on the Mac side, the computer on both the Mac and the Windows side becomes incredibly slow, almost usable. If I disable the "address book sync" through the activity monitor (force quit), the computer on both the Mac and Windows side restores to normal speed. I have 4 CPU's on this MAc book pro and i have configured parallels to 2 for the Mac side and 2 for the Windows side. I have also allocated 2GB of memory to the Windows 7 side which is within the recommended range of 512MB to 4GB (Maximum memory is 16BG).
I have also noticed in "activity monitor" that the process name "prl_vm_app" can run as high as 200% of cpu usage and vary anywhere from its current level whilst writing this email of 5% upwards. This does not however seem to affect the speed of the computer and again this is being caused by "address book sync". For information I am running Outlook on the windows side and using "contacts" and this is also being replicated on the mac side in "contacts". Whenever I update or enter a new contact in the windows side (Contacts in outlook) then address book sync starts shortly after on the Mac side and the computer slows considerably.
I have iCloud working on the mac side and windows side syncing my contacts calendar etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have the same problem too. My iphone is not syncing with my addressbook on the mac, no matter what I try, it is very very frustrating!!

What is the deal with the new Mavericks version of the Mail program..? I cannot simply double click in the address book to place names in the address line?

I can no longer simply double click on a name in the contacts list to place that name into an an email??
You now have to select a single name(or a group), and hit the "TO" button.
Have the engineers at Apple gone nuts?? They just made it more difficult to add names?? Are they going for a windows workability??
If anyone out there can tell me how to go back to this feature, please, please let me know..
Adding addresses is now not working very well....?? Please help!
Randy

OK, JUST TO CLARIFY: I OPEN MY MAIL PROGRAM. I then start a new letter. I then click on the little person icon button which opens up the address/contacts list. This action does not open up the address book as such.
I simply want to select various contacts from the list. But now I can no longer simply go down the list to double click on those contacts that I want to automatically drop into the TO field of my new message. It does not work any longer in Mavericks??
Now I have to click on each contact, and then go up, and click again on the TO button ....
Can Apple please stop making tasks more difficult?? The previous version worked great, and now it has been upgraded so that it doesn't work as simply as it did??
Frustrated.!!!

Can I transfer/migrate my mail address book from my old G5 OS 10.4.11 to a new Maverick 10.9.4 ?

Can I transfer/migrate my mail address book from my old G5 OS 10.4.11 to a new Maverick 10.9.4 ?

Thank you so much! I actually need help transferring my old address book with all my contacts and their e-mail addresses. I had trouble setting up mail so I used my internet provider's webmail to send and receive mail, but that is fixed now.
If I have to manually enter each contact, I'll do that, but it sure would be nice if there was a way to transfer the address book.
Thanks again.

I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book. I got Norton Internet Security for Mac, and now my Mac is running slow, with way too many spinning beach balls of death. Was it a mistake to install Norton?

I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book. I got Norton Internet Security for Mac, and now my Mac is running slow, with way too many spinning beach balls of death. Was it a mistake to install Norton?

yankeecat wrote:
I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book.
There is no such Trojan or other malware known today that will do that using OS X nor has there ever been one. The most probable explanation is that somebody hacked into your e-mail account on the server, so you should change that password to something stronger right away. If it had come from your Mac then there would almost certainly be copies of those messages in your Sent Mail mailbox.

Address book slow on mavericks

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