Address book subscription question

On my iMac I am subscribed to my sons address book, how can I view this on my iPhone without adding all of his contacts to my address book? I dont want to clutter my address book but when I am away from home I sometimes need a number in his contacts. Is there a way to do this or a workaround?

Pandaboots,
I have been looking at that since Leopard came out....
I put in a comma after the city on all my addresses in the address book...
Ok... that works when you print...
Now, here is another problem with that comma and Apple...
When you plug in an iPod which is synced to the address book, the iPod now has 2 commas....
So, the iPod knows there should be a comma there but the address book does NOT...
Either Apple needs to remove the comma from the iPod syncing or add a comma to the Address Book to be consistent with each other...
I have removed all my commas from my address book now so I don't have double commas on my iPod....
Go Figure.......

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Okay, I have learned/accepted that iCloud is not the sync'ing deal that MobileMe was (missed that in the fine print as I have been a loyal .mac user from its inception and like the MM syncing). I understand that everything is updated in the cloud and pushed to various devices (for me, iPhone 4S, new iPad and 2009 MBP). So, how is it possible for my iCloud address book to have more contacts than my MBP address book? Wouldn't all of the ones in iCloud be pushed to the MBP? The only thing I can think is that before I understood the concept that there are two address books resident on the MBP, I starting deleting what I thought were duplicates since I wasn't able to merge them due to two different sources. I could not find a way at that time to tell me which line was from what source. Then, once I get the two address books matching - mostly to ensure that I am not missing anything in the iCloud one - what purpose does the Mac based address book serve? I just had a nightmare of dragging various cards from my iCloud address page on the right into the iCloud group on the left and only to realize after doing at least 20 cards that after the first one, the left page registers back up putting the Mac based group across from the iCloud contact list so I dropped many of them into the Mac group instead of the iCloud group. The iCal doesn't maintain a Mac version and an iCloud version, why does the address book? BTW, all software on all devices is up to date as of this posting.

Please pardon what may be a silly question. This is my first ever post...
I was thinking about deleting "On My Mac" address book per your above instructions, and sticking with the one iCloud contacts. The problem I am afraid of running into is this: In iTunes, when I sync contacts, the groups that show available for syncing all come from "On My Mac". If I delete from the Mac, will that make my "Contacts" icon on my iPad 'dead'? Thereby, forcing me to log onto iCloud to view my Contacts, instead of a handy shortcut???
Or will I simply get to forgo the iTunes syncing... and the "contacts" icon on my iPad will reflect what was synced thru iCloud?
If the latter is true, does that simply mean I will need to recreate my "groups" in iCloud?
Thanks in advance, I certainly need some guidance.

Address Book contacts question

Hi- just wondering if someone can help on this topic before I launch into the unknown!!:
If I add an Exchange 2007 account into my Apple Address Book, will those email addresses be available when I go to send an email in Apple Mail?
and so am I right to assume that Mail looks for addresses from:
1/ my "local" Mac Address Book entries
2/ my new Exchange contacts
3/ my Previous Recipients list in Mail
Lastly, when I choose "add to Address Book" in Mail, where will this contact go- to my "local" address Book on into the Exchange account?
Thanks for any tips!

Does your question have anything remotely to do with iWeb 09? This is an iWeb 09 forum - did you not look where you were posting?
No - so it is not relevant to this forum. Please post in somewhere that is more relevant, such as the iPhone forum or the iPad forum.

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Is there a way in the address book label printing to select the position of one label to be printed on, let's say, a 30 label sheet of Avery standard? Many times I just want to print one address label but have a sheet of labels that have several labels missing. I want to be able to select the start position as to where the label is printed, otherwise it always wants to print in the first row, first label and I have to use a brand new sheet of label paper so use up the 2 #1 postions. (Turn it upside down)
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Upgraded MacBook Pro 5,1 to Lion - Address Book/RAM Question - PLEASE HELP!

So, I upgraded to Lion. Flawless.
Except, when I was trying to set up iCloud, I had Address Book open and decided to select the "Look for Duplicates" function to try to clear some of the double entries in my Address Book.
The process took over an hour.
I had Fusion running.
After an hour, I got an error message that said I have run out of disk space. It prompted me to force quit some applications.
I have 4 GB of RAM and 400 GB free on a 750 GB Hard Drive.
What caused this? Is it serious? Any advice?
I am trying to run it again, but it is taking forever.
Please help!

I finally solved the problem by myself.
For anyone reading this thread and having similar issues, I quickly describe how I did it:
Basically, I changed totally nothing on either Soft- or Hardware side.
But what I did was disassemble my MBP, remove one of those 2 memory chips, un- and replugged the SSD, turned the system on with just one memory chip, let it run for a while (did some stress tests on the SSD that ususally lead to massive problems) and everything worked smooth.
At first I thought the one memory I removed was bad, but to my surprise the system continued to work stable after I put it in again.
Since 6 days my MBP runs smooth without any troubles like spinning wheels or whatsoever.
I've read many threads from other people having similiar issues with this configuration, coming up with a lot of ideas and workarounds.
Although this seems to be weird, I hope that it helps some of you facing the same weird behaviour.

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In the address book: I'M trying to print avery labels with both company name contact name above the address any way this can be done?
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Address book sync question using Mobile Me

I sync my address book using Mobile Me.
However, I have several different groups in my book, and only want to sync one group.
I can't figure out how to do that. Right now it is syncing all my contacts.
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Message was edited by: KevShootz

Sounds like a desktop configuration issue you should investigate if you can have more than one contact listing for each user logon and whether you can make one of them the default.
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Address Book Salutation question

I have to use salutations a lot in my business,e.g., Mr., Ms., etc. so I have been using the prefix field in the address book. That way I can print labels correctly. However, When I look at a group, it shows Mr. Joe Apple, Ms. Josephine Apple, Mrs. Josephine Appleton, etc. And I would really like to just see Joe Apple, Josephine Apple, Josephine Appleton - When there are a lot of names the salutation gets in the way of finding people at a glance. Is there a way to keep the prefix field and not show it in the group listing?
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Pandaboots,
I have been looking at that since Leopard came out....
I put in a comma after the city on all my addresses in the address book...
Ok... that works when you print...
Now, here is another problem with that comma and Apple...
When you plug in an iPod which is synced to the address book, the iPod now has 2 commas....
So, the iPod knows there should be a comma there but the address book does NOT...
Either Apple needs to remove the comma from the iPod syncing or add a comma to the Address Book to be consistent with each other...
I have removed all my commas from my address book now so I don't have double commas on my iPod....
Go Figure.......

Address Book & Subscriptions after upgrade

Before upgrading I had 400 contacts in my address book. And was subscribed to someone else's address book that had 1,500 contacts. After upgrading the address book I subscribed to was gone and my address book now has 1900 contacts. I went into time machine but all my contacts pre upgrade are gone. Any ideas of how to get my old address book back with out having to go through and pick out the 1,500 contacts I don't want in my own address book?

So after spending 3 hours on the phone with apple care this morning I got the issue on my computer resolved - hopefully this will help you. Joe, the guy I was speaking with was a great help and stuck it out with me till we got it fixed.
The problem seems to be with mobile me and the sync services file. Here is what I did that hopefully will work for you:
1. Create a "Test" user account.
2. In that user account login to mobile me and sync your contacts. I had my 500 contacts download and the 1500 I was subscribed to.
3. Sign out of mobile me in the Test account. After I did this the extra 1500 users disappeared. You may need to quit and restart address book.
4. Now that I had my own 500 contacts, I went to "File > Export... > Address Book Archive". It creates an '.abbu' file on your desktop.
5. Move the .abbu file to your main user account.
6. Switch back over to your main user account.
7. Go to Mobile Me in system preferences and sign out (doing this in my main account did NOT remove the extra 1500 contacts)
8. I went to "File > Import..." and choose the .abbu file I just made with my good 500 contacts.
9. A dialogue window will you if your sure you want to replace all the info in address book - yes you do.
10. Quit and reopen address book and presto! my 500 contacts were back and the 1500 I subscribed to were gone.
11. Restart your computer for good measure and the re-enable mobile me syncing.
Joe said he was going to pass my case onto engineering, and they should address this issue further / post and knowledge base article about the problem.
I hope this helps others! Good luck.

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I need the answer to this question also. I have never had a problem with this before, but after the latest update for iTunes and OS4 I noticed that my birthdays are no longer on my iPhones calendar. I have tried numerous things, but nothing works. Everything looks right. I have made no changes. I need my birthdays to sync with my iPhone calendar. Someone please help us.

Frequent Contacts Address book Properties Questions

On the options tag, there is the check box to delete addresses not
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Could you explain what "not referenced" means?
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> You haven't sent any mails to that address within the last 60 days, say.
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Adding an Address Book card from a shared address book to a Group

I have an Address Book Sharing Question/Problem. With the .Mac Family Pack, I have multiple .Mac Accounts. I have set up Address Book to share addresses from the individual .Mac accounts and set each to be able to edit the shared addresses. Initially, I was hoping that these would appear in each users Address Book and sync all changes, instead of just appearing as a shared Address Book below the users Address Book. But that does not appear to be the case.
However, my question/problem is that I want to be able to add a card from a shared Address Book (for example from my wife’s Address Book) into a current group in my Address Book (say a family member group). I can drag the card in, but the information is apparently copied as a new card into my Address Book and changes I make are no longer synced with the shared Address Book (my Wife’s Address Book). Is this working correctly? (I know .Mac has been acting up in the last few weeks) If so, there does not appear to be much value in say sharing family, doctor, and friends info from my wife’s address book, as I can not create my own groups or if I do, our contact info is no longer synced. The new cards I copy in are also not visible to the shared Address Book, so we will also have no way of seeing that a card has been changed. Is there anyway to truly share a card or group of contacts between users of separate .Mac accounts so that the contacts can be separated into different groups for each user and card info / changes will remain synced? If this is already supposed to be occurring, any ideas as to a fix?
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Also, if I drag an entire group from a shared Address Book to my Address Book, it is copied in a blue color, making me think "Cool! It is different from a group that I create (which are white), so it must be shared!" But it is not. Changes to cards in this "copied" group are not synced to the original shared Address Book. So, what does the blue color mean?

Address Book opens up ramdomly

Hey guys,
after 2.5 years on a Mac I have the first problem I couldn't solve myself.
I'm on 10.7.3 with all of my contacts on iCloud syncing with my iPhone.
For a few weeks now Address Book opens up unintentionally with hidden window.
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I hope you can help me here.
Thanks in advance.
Ma nu

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Mail & Address Book - Do I have to use AB?

I currently use Thunderbird for my email client. At present it does not work with Snow Leopard. In looking at Mail, it appears that it uses the Address Book app for its address book. Questions:
1 - My Thunderbird address book is quite large and contains ONLY email addresses. I don't use it for phone numbers, etc. Can I import it into Mail.
2 - I use Address Book for addresses and phone numbers, NOT email. Do I need to "link" Address Book into Mail or can I unlink it?
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Can you export your Thunderbird address book as a vcf card? That is, select all cards, and drag them all to the desktop, or export to the desktop, as a single "mega-VCF" card? If so, then double clicking on that single vcf file should import all into the Address Book application. Fields that do not have data entries in Thunderbird will be left blank in the Apple Address Book.
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