Address Book -- Will this bug EVER be fixed?

I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why my Address Book was completely freezing, even though restarting the machine. I would start the app, and it would be completely unresponsive.
So, I googled and found a thread (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8106287#8106287) from right after the release of 10.5.5, saying that if you create a smart group with a conditional using "card is not in XXX group" or "card is not in any group" the application will be completely and permanently hosed until you delete those groups (without starting AB, since you can't). Instructions are above if you're having that problem but READ THE WHOLE THREAD. I did, removed the offending group, and everything works again.
Now we're up to 10.5.7 and Apple hasn't (as usual) done a **** thing. I mean, they could at least remove the option, or change it to read "make application completely unresponsive."
This is just one of a LONG series of unfixed/unacknowledged serious bugs, or staggering deficiencies, in the Apple application suite. Address Book doesn't even have a provide-feedback link so I guess they really don't care. Does this mean they're going to stop supporting the product, or what?

Sorry to hear you are having a problem with your Address Book program. It's a pretty stable program, and I'm not having the problem with my Mac's that you have encountered.
Apple's support page for Address Book is:
http://www.apple.com/support/leopard/addressbook/
To report a bug or feature request for a program that is not on any other list, you go to: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html and choose Applications/Utilities in the *Feedback Area* drop-down menu.
Every OS has bugs, that's why we are now at 10.5.7, and deficiencies in a generic program are not rare. Almost every program provided by Apple has commercial alternatives, some are excellent. I don't think anyone actually believes that every Apple program is the best in the world, they are just the best overall suite and all have room for improvement.
I suspect you are a victim of accumulated corruption in either your OS or User account. There are many steps that can be used to test for this, but they do take more than a half hour and may require rebuilding databases, erasing preferences, reinstalling softwares, etc.
Rarely does an upgrade fix an existing problem.

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Why does Lion KEEP reversing changes you make in address book and other applications without your consent and without wanting it to??? Plus address book will NOT import old address book contacts from Snow Lepoard 10.6 and keep them. This Lion OXS 7 is ..

Why does Lion KEEP reversing changes you make in address book and other applications without your consent and without wanting it to??? Plus address book will NOT import old address book contacts from Snow Lepoard 10.6 and keep them. This Lion OXS 7 is .. becoming very frustrating ... it will NOT keep changes made in the Address Book and it has destroyed my contacts which I only have electronically since 10.4 in my address book. I am NOT happy with this OS7 it has a lot of issues and faults. How can one stop automatic reversing of data when inputting???
Please help!
Wished I NEVER upgraded to this Lion!!!
Carmelo

Relax. Your address book database is corrupted.
If you are syncing your Contacts with MobileMe or something else, disable it for now.
Backup your address book by going to File>Export>Address Book Archive.
Quit Address Book.
Open your Library by holding down the Option (alt) key while selecting the Go menu in Finder. Select Library. Navigate into your Application Support/AddressBook folder and delete the addressbook-v22.abcddb file.
Open Address Book. It will recreate the database from the raw data.
See how that works. If it is ok, then reenable syncing and see how that works.

Address book will print 'famil' but not 'family'??

I use Address Book to send out Christmas cards to our clients. When I print out the envelope I would like it to say for example 'Bill Jones and family', but I do not want 'and family' to show in the address book window, so I cannot use the suffix field. When I type 'famil' in the 'father' template field it prints as 'Bill Jones and famil', however when I type 'family' it ignores the field and will print as Bill Jones only. This goes for daughter, spouse, brother, etc. I have tried adding a space before or after 'family' but there is no fooling Address Book. Any ideas?

BTW Address Book will print fomily, fimily and famili, just not family in the spouse/parent field. This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen! It makes no difference if I use capitals, and it will print family as a name or an address.

HT2486 the photos that I add to address book will only be there for a few seconds after I close the edit button. Either they go away completely or they a very small portion of the actual photo

the photos that I add to address book will only be there for a few seconds after I close the edit button. Either they go away completely or they are very small portion of the actual photo

Frank, thanks for your note. I wrote "COMPLETED" because I had gone to a lot of effort to get the content of the book precisely as I wanted it. I would fully expect to see my level of effort and care matched by functional competence in Aperture 3 to render the book the way I created it. Too much to ask?
And yes, I upgraded the Aperture 2 Library first. [Not ALL my tens of 000s of pix, because I use Lightroom selectively for photo editing. But Yes to the Aperture 2 Library.] That step took a number of minutes, but seemed to work fine (no error messages of any kind).
Then I opened the existing book project in Aperture 3, which followed some "magic-box" process that took a minute or so. As I said, when that step was done, by all appearances the book was ready to submit for printing - until I examined the photos a little more closely. You did see the blurry example I included, didn't you? That is what each and every photo looks like.
Text-box content appears to have been rendered pertectly, for the record (including captions).
So, ... is this result something you have heard of before? Do you know of a one-step solution? Or am I looking at an extended picture-by-picture fix?

What is the maximum number of contacts Address Book will support?

We are a small business who have recently switched over to Kerio Connect. We are currently using Mac Address Book to store & share contacts (sharing via MobileMe), but have been told by our IT support company that we have too many contacts (approx. 4500) and Address Book will not support this many. They have said that this is why we are having issues with contacts emails and phone numbers scrambling. Is there a limit to the amount of contacts that Address Book will support?

Having values shuffle in the fashion described is indicative of a database corruption or an application bug, and that can (also) effect performance. I'd suggest trying to get a footprint of that problem, and then report it to Apple.
And there is no "lol" matter here. 4500 is a comparatively large number of contacts for Address Book Server, and no, AB doesn't tend to scale all that well and isn't (per information attributed to Apple) intended as a shared contact store.
See this thread and (as you'll learn as you read that thread) make certain your DNS configuration is valid. Within that thread, specifically see Dr Timbo's post circa Dec 14, 2010 7:31 PM in that thread, and Strontium90's post circa Dec 23, 2010 3:03 PM.
Just because there's an SQL database underneath doesn't imply that the design will scale, nor that the application will have acceptable performance. It's possible for an SQL database to have millions of records and to run fast, and it's equally possible for a database to have several dozen records and the application can run slowly.

Address Book Archive Save Bug

I recently went through and cleaned up my address book. Every hundred or so records, I exported an archive file after selecting all the records. I saved it to a file on my desktop. Each time I did it, I saved to the same file and when it asked me if I wanted to replace the file I said yes.
After a few days of this I did one last save. I looked at the file that I had been overwriting and found that it had not updated in several days. I tried it again, double checked the location, etc. and it did not update the file.
It gave no indication that it hadn't saved the file. This looks like an address book dialog box bug to me.
Has anyone else seen this? The workaround is easy, jsut save as a different name, but it was really surprising.
Thanks,
Tony
Message was edited by: Tony Kenck

The Address Book Backup (abbu) is not a file, but a folder containing files and additional folders. When using the abbu export feature, I would not recommend saving with the same name each time because it will not give you an accurate backup. It will allow files to accumulate in some of the subfolders (such as the Metadata folder).
As for the creation/modification date of the abbu, I believe that the top-level folder's date may not change while the contents may change. In any event, this is another good reason to not use the same backup filename each time, but instead use a unique filename for each export.

When I compose an E-mail my address book will not open when I click on TO or CC, but it does work on other computers and also if I use explorer.

My address book will not show when I click on the TO or CC button, a mozilla page does open but there is no content. My E-mail accounts work fine on other computers. It also works fine on this computer if I use Explorer instead.

"Clear the Cache": Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now" 
"Remove the Cookies" from sites that cause problems: Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies" 
 
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes). 
See [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] and [[Troubleshooting plugins]] 
Your plugins list shows outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks.
* Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53
* Java Plug-in 1.6.0_11 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
Update the [[Java]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (Java Platform: Download JRE)
Update the [[Flash]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
Update the [[Adobe Reader]] plugin to the latest version.
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Old address book will not open in Snow Leopard

After upgrading to SL, attempting to access AB in the dock brings up the message "This version of Address Book will not open in this operating system. You have Address Book version 4.1.2". Querying Apple Support brought suggestions from reinstalling just Address Book to utilizing Time Machine. Solution was incredibly simple.
When upgrading to SL, the OS upgraded AB...but only in Applications. If you're getting this message, go to Applications and click on AB there. If it opens, just delete AB in the Dock, then transfer the new, updated AB to the dock, and you're all set.

Somehow you've retained an old version of Addressbook (version 5.0.3). The current version is 6.1
Look in the apps folder to see if you have the current version, the dock icon may be pointing to the old version.
Regards,
Captfred

My address book will not synch with iCloud or iPhone 4

Since upgrading to lion, my address book will not synch with icloud or my iphone 4. Any idea what I should do?

I can't figure out what's going on. Been working on this all day. Yes, all the preferences are checked off and I've triple checked everything. The truth is, after many experiments, I think the problem has to do with how address book is communicating with my contact list. I use quickbooks 2012 for mac. It has all of my customers and vendors synched with my address book on my mac. If I add a customer in quickbooks it shows up in address book on my mac. But it doesn't show up in Icloud or on my Iphone. If I manually add a customer to my Iphone it synchs fine with Icloud and my address book. It seems that the only time devices can't communicate is when I add a contact in quickbooks. No matter what I do, I can't get the new contact from quickbooks to icloud or my iphone. It looks like those programs/devices completely ignore the new contact in address book that was created in quickbooks. I realize you probably can't help me here but if you have any ideas let me know.

Address book will not sync with outlook

I have a bb curve 8530. My desktop PC runs windows 7 and Outlook. The address book will not sync with outlook. The calendar function, however, will sync with outlook. The error messages are:
"Runtime error: unable to locate application in system table. The product may not be installed properly; run the installer and choose repair."
Or, "Intellisyncy error encountered 0x8004fff."
or, "unable to complete synchronization."
I have pulled out the battery of the 8530 to try a hard reset. I have reloaded on my PC the latest software from the BB website. I have reset and configured synchronization settings multiple times in every possible order. I have deleted from my outlook contacts any large files. I do not know what the installer the error message refers to.
Thanks, David

you cant reset your PIN, it is hardcoded into the BB
where is your PIN missing?
when it syncs the calendar, does it look like it syncs but nothing actually happens, no errors?
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HT2486 Address book will no longer sort when typing name

Address book will no longer sort names when you begin to type

Have you tried resetting your sort option in Address Book / Preferences? Change it from whatever you have it (e.g. First Name) to the other choice. Then try to Search a contact. If it works, then go back in and reset it to what you had it before.

Unable to open mail, address book etc due to this message: You can't use this version of the application Address Book with this version of Mac OS X. HELP!

I am transferring my mother's address book and mail etc to my computer from an external hard drive enclosure and am not able to open it due to this message: You can't use this version of the application Address Book with this version of Mac OS X. HELP! Is there a way to open her older applications and get the info out?

her email is in user>Library>Mail folder. Hopefully you've created another user on your Mac for your mother so she would have her own user Library.

I have changed settings on my email account with my provider, but in order to activate the address they instructed me to delete my account and add a new account with the same email address. Will this delete my all my email history? Any advise please?

I have an OS X 10.6.8 and have had problems with my mail. I have changed my account settings with my mail provider, but they suggest I now delete my account and add a new account with the same email address. Will this delete my email history? Can anyone please advise?

I have the same problem as the emails go to my iCloud account that I cannot access!!! I cannot answer the security questions as someone else must have set up my iCloud account. Nothing seems to work. It would be great if someone has some ideas as what can be done to recover the situation?

Just upgraded my OS10.4 to snow lepard and now itunes will not open. I hope to further upgrade to Lion. Ps my address book will not open either!

operate or open, also my address book will not open. Am hoping to upgraded further to lion asap.

Office 2011 will install in a separate folder. But do not install Office 2011 until you remove Office 2004. It comes with its own uninstalled located in the MS Office folder. Only use the uninstaller to get rid of it. Then install Office 2011.
Office 2004 and Other Applications Don't Work in Lion/Mountain Lion
If you have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite, it will not work in Lion/Mountain Lion. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion.
You may want to consider as well:
These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:
NeoOffice
Open Office
And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
Pages - word processing and layout
Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.)

Blackberry Address book will not open

Please help me, My blackberry addressbook won't open on my Blackberry curve 8520! I cannot save numbers and call some contacts. It is really difficult too use my phone now!
Thanks

Hello Guys
Welcome to the Community
This has been an ongoing issue for Blackberry phones OS5 and below. Please check the link below:
Unable to edit or create new contacts on the BlackBerry Address Book
Please just wait for further notice on when these apps will have their respective updates to fix the issue.
Ron
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Address Book -- Will this bug EVER be fixed?

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