Address book won't allow edit

I can't edit any address in my address book. I can't back up or add new contacts. I have alot of my contacts in Smart groups.

Hi, any progress on this yet?
BTW Smart Groups are just Alias list of the Main AB DB.

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....it's Address Book version 3.1.2.
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Is there a fix for this problem???
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OK good, all your programs should be in the top level (they are accessible for all users when you have multiple accounts on your mac).
The fact that user/applications/ is empty means you never installed a program only for that user (sounds a bit stupid when you are the only user, but believe me, for testing purposes or kids hanging around, multiple users is a great thing)
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If lower then v4, you must have another version hanging around somewhere. Try to locate it using Spotlight (Applications checkbox must be ON inside Sporlight preferences)
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Like the header says. Address book won't save changes to note field. There's another thread with the same header: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2591053?threadID=2591053 But it's archived so I had to post this new one.
If I made a change in any non-note field however, it would stay.
Note: the notes field can be edited with actually having to go into official "edit" mode. Does this make it more prone to corruption? Why would Apple make the notes field NOT need that extra step of protection. Do they think my notes aren't as important? How would they know?
I fixed this one card with a bandaid solution by exporting it and reimporting it. But I guess I need to do that with all 2,000 of my contacts now. It was mentioned on theother thread that somebody made an address book backup and then deleted every contact in the address book and imported them fresh from the backup and that worked.
The underlyilng issue is still not solved though. How could this happpen in the first place, and how do I know what other contacts haven't held lthe changes I thought I made?

Hi,
Using the Note field
You can add notes to any contact in Address Book. This makes it easy to keep track of details about a person in your address book.
Select the person in the Name column in Address Book, then click the Note field in the card.
The Note field can be edited at any time, even if the card is not in edit mode.
You could make a dedicated field that requires the edit button...
Using custom labels
You can change the label that appears next to a piece of information on a contact's card. For example, you might want to change "work" to "support" next to a phone number.
Select the contact that you want to change.
Click the Edit button at the bottom of the window.
Click the label next to a field, then choose Custom from the pop-up menu.
Enter a new label for the field.
The new custom label appears on this contact's card only.
If you want to change a specific label on all cards in your Address Book, edit the card template. Choose Address Book > Preferences and click Template. The Template pane also allows you to add other types of fields on contact cards, such as a nickname, job title, birthday, anniversary, and URL. Use the Add Field menu.

Site with editable regions won't allow editing

Hi, I have set up multple sites for InContext Editing. All works fine except this last one that won't allow editing online. When clicking "Edit Page" I get a message saying "There are no editable regions." I have checked and double checked the pages and the regions are there. I've reflowed the content into all pages (template) but I still get the same message in InContext.
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i'm done, thank you
2009/10/19 Dan POPA <[email protected]>
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InContext Editing can edit only the elements having the ice:editable
attribute set.
Your page should contain something like this:
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<div ice:editable="*">
some editable content here
</div>
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But there are no such elements in the
http://www.nolimithockey.com/index.html page.
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You say you can see the ICE regions in that page so I can only assume that
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Another possibility is that you mistakenly treat Dreamweaver Template
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You can create ICE editable regions by selecting in Dreamweaver an element
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http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2242-505554-2323206-23866/create_ice_ er.png
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Please let me know if any of these were of any help to you,
Regards,
Dan Popa
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11/1/07 9:14:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].com.apple.AddressBook[485] dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SearchEngine.framework/Versions/A/SearchEngin e
11/1/07 9:14:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].com.apple.AddressBook[485] Referenced from: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
11/1/07 9:14:09 PM [0x0-0x57057].com.apple.AddressBook[485] Reason: image not found
11/1/07 9:14:10 PM com.apple.launchd[70] ([0x0-0x57057].com.apple.AddressBook[485]) Exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap
11/1/07 9:14:14 PM [0x0-0x58058].com.apple.AddressBook[488] dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SearchEngine.framework/Versions/A/SearchEngin e
11/1/07 9:14:14 PM [0x0-0x58058].com.apple.AddressBook[488] Referenced from: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
11/1/07 9:14:14 PM [0x0-0x58058].com.apple.AddressBook[488] Reason: image not found
11/1/07 9:14:14 PM com.apple.launchd[70] ([0x0-0x58058].com.apple.AddressBook[488]) Exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap
11/1/07 9:14:17 PM [0x0-0x59059].Address Book[489] dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SearchEngine.framework/Versions/A/SearchEngin e
11/1/07 9:14:17 PM [0x0-0x59059].Address Book[489] Referenced from: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
11/1/07 9:14:17 PM [0x0-0x59059].Address Book[489] Reason: image not found
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