Calendar "show birthdays from Address Book"

There doesn't seem to be a way to select a particular Group from Address Book to add to a Calendar. Is there a way to do that?

No. What I've done is create an iCal birthday calendar and added the birthdays I wanted there and then use that for the iPhoto calendar. Some work at first but once done it's easy to maintain and use.
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TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Adding selected Birthdays from Address book to an iPhoto Calendar

I'm creating a Calendar in iPhoto, I have a large number of birthdays in my Address Book but I don't need all of them added to my Calendar Project (ie: Business contacts,etc). Is there a way to only add selected people, or a group to my project or do I have to import the birthdays and go in manually afterwards and erase the people I don't want?
Thanks.

AtzeP
I did find a solution! I found that it was working from my laptop, but just not from my desktop. So, on my desktop computer, in Address Book, I deleted the field "Birthday" from my template, then I re-added it and from then on, it worked. There must have been something corrupt in the that field in my template. To get to it in Address Book:
Hightlight a card, then click Card > Add Field > Edit Template
Scroll down to the Birthday field and click the minus sign next to it.
Then add the field back in:
Highlight a card, then click Card > Add Field > Birthday
That worked for me. There are two parts that I don't know about:
1) I don't THINK it will delete the Birthday field in cards that already have a birthday entered. I think it just deletes that field in the template and therefore in newly entered contacts that field would be missing, but I would make sure you have that data backed up in some way first.
2) I don't know if the birthdays that are already entered will suddenly appear in your calendar or if you'll have to go back and delete and then re-enter that info.
I hope it works for you! Let me know!

Jabber for Windows 10.5 shows contacts from Address Book multiple times?

What would cause Jabber for Windows 10.5.1 to show a contact multiple times from the address book when searching? See attached screenshot.

I tried removing firefox and rebooting/reinstalling Jabber with no luck. I reimaged my machine and loaded 10.5.2 fresh install with no previous versions and still getting the random crash. Also, I have users who say it has crashed on them during a WebEx and have had installation problems when upgrading from 9.x to 10.5.x. Version 9 is very solid, sticking with 9.7.5. I have about 10% of my test users having varying problems with version 10.5.x, waiting till the next release. Hopefully Cisco will spend a few more weeks testing the next one before publishing it on their site.
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Also, when you finally get frustrated and want to downgrade, Jabber 10.5.x doesn't uninstall completely and you end up with an error like the image attached when you try to install v9.7.5 for example and can't install Jabber even after rebooting. I had to run Microsoft Fix It install/Uninstall option and tell it to uninstall Jabber before Windows allowed me to install an older version of Jabber. Not too happy with this release. Strange enough though, some of my users have the exact same laptop I do, same windows build, same patches, etc, and it works fine for them. Anyway, not deploying this one. Good luck.

Sharing info from Address Book to iCal

Okay, I've found I can automatically share my birthdays from Address Book to iCal. How can I share other date related info, such as anniversaries?
PB G4 Aluminum Mac OS X (10.4.3)

That's it. There is no provision for sharing such data [other than birthdays] between the Address Book and iCal, and that capability only surfaced about six months ago when Mac OS X 10.4, iCal 2 and Address Book 4 were all released together.

How do you sync from address book to ical?

sync birthday from address book to ical but why can I not sync anniversary dates and custom dates from address book to ical????
how do you go about doing this? I really don't understand why it wouldn't sync all dates from address book.

Kyle,
Try Dates to iCal, by John Maisey.

ICal incorrectly takes name from Address Book to show in birthday calendar

When I-Cal takes the name of a birthday person from Address Book to post a reminder on the birthday calendar of I-Cal it shows the first name as though it was the last name. I have verified this problem by reversing the names in Address Book, whereupon I-Cal shows the name correctly in the birthday calendar.
Obviously the program is defective and needs to be corrected.

You probably have not clicked the "show birthday calander" in the ical preferences pane

Do they have a calendar for anniversary like birthdays that info gets picked up from address book?

Do they have a calendar for anniversaries like birthdays that get info from Address Book? I would be very effective. I wold not like to have to enter all the info over again.

Tom,
Try Dates to iCal, by John Maisey.

Sync between MacBookPro and iPhone 3G does not sync properly. Calendars duplicate events but worse is that only contacts from Address book from letter T onwards sync. Any contacts on iPhone which are not on Mac are lost during sync.

Sync between MacBookPro and iPhone 3G does not sync properly. Calendars duplicate events but worse is that only contacts from Address book from letter T onwards sync. Any contacts on iPhone which are not on Mac are lost during sync.
Solutions?

No, I never really found an easy solution. I believe it is an issue with some corruption in the iTunes database on the specific device. In my case, both my iPad and iPhone now show duplicate stream songs if viewed through iTunes on my Mac, but they show different songs. A couple years ago I had a similar issue on my iPhone, and Apple support suggested I back up the phone, completely reset it, and then restore it from the backup. It did work, so I imagine it would probably work for my current issues with the iPhone and iPad. But resetting and restoring an iPad or iPhone always makes me a little nervous that something will get lost. When I did reset/restore the iPhone, I do have to say, the restore process was 100% perfect and I did not lose any data at all even though Apple support said I might. If you try to go that route, I would suggest backing the device up both to a computer through iTunes, and to the iCloud so that you have a double backup.
None of this really resolves the issue with how the iTunes databases are becoming corrupted on the apple devices though, so it is very likely to happen again until they fix it. I have been unable to determine if there were any specific actions or conditions which caused the corruption to happen in the first place.
Might be worth another call to Apple support, or dropping in the local Apple store if you have one near by.

When I try to print an address from Address Book on an envelope, the printer menu shows the menu from IPhoto. All other print requests show the normal pinter menu. How do get the normal menu?

When I try to print an address from Address Book on an envelope, the printer menu shows the menu from IPhoto. All other print requests show the normal pinter menu. How do get the normal print menu?

Mike,
Are any of your other applications going wonky, or is it just Logic?
I'm afraid I've never heard of this particular problem before, but if it were happening to me the first thing I would do is delete my "com.apple.logic.express.plist" file in Library>Preferences, then repair permissions in Disc Utility, and finally restart my computer. Then I would launch Logic and see if the problem has been corrected. It's amazing how much these two steps can accomplish.
If that doesn't resolve the issue I would launch Logic and go to Preferences>Audio Units Manager to see if all my plug-ins are properly validated.

HT204150 I have just set up icloud and all my contacts are duplicated from Address Book! My new iPhone is also showing duplicate contacts even though they are not duplicated in my address book on my computer. Please can you help

I have just set up icloud and all my contacts are duplicated from Address Book! My new iPhone is also showing duplicate contacts even though they are not duplicated in my address book on my computer. Please can you help?

Also, what are the source of your contacts? are they created on the phone, or you synced from yahoo/hotmail etc.
If thats the case, the circular arrow wont be visible but instead show "groups"
Contacts from different accounts are not synced to iCloud.

Birthday from Adress Book not shown in iCal

Hi, I have checked option "Show Birthday Calendar" in iCal, but birthdays from Adress Book not shown. I found where is problem: Contact's birthdays from local adress book (On My Mac) are shown properly in iCal, but contact's birthdays from my adress book on Exchange 2007 (RU9) are not shown... I think this is a bug to be fixed...

Wish I'd looked here first! Have just spent a couple of hours trying to get birthdays to appear in iCal after completing an upgrade from Exchange 2003 to 2007. Same problem as reported above - they don't appear. I've tried Dates 2 iCal (shareware with good reviews) but it doesn't seem to help.
Copying the Exchange address book to 'on my Mac' doesn't seem to do anything either.
The only workaround I can think of is manually adding recurring events into the Exchange calendar for the relevant birthdays. That's a pain, and kind of flies in the face of the whole "integrates natively with Exchange, something even Microsoft doesn't do" tag. A more accurate tag would seem to be "doesn't work quite as well as iCal under Leopard" (he said, slightly grumpily).
Anyone have any other ideas?
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Lion iCal with Google caldav unable to add invitees from address book

Dear Support,
I am using google calendar as my cal server (caldav).
I used to be able to add invitees using address book into the event in Snow. But in Lion, iCal rejecting drag and drop from address book to the event. The mouse turned into a stop sign.
This is a show stopper, is there work around ? Is there plan to fix this ?
Why are named got rejected ? This is a simple basic feature. Is there plan to fix this ?
Also in iCal, I cant seem to delete google calender event. I've seen several complaint also, is this fixed with a patch ?
Apple support, please help.

Hello ac9000 and welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
If you were to create a contact in your BlackBerry, does it sync to your Mac Address Boook?
In your BlackBerry Address Book if you go to Menu>Options, under Contact lists do you have an email account listed? If so, if you click into it, does this list sync wirelessley to this email account?
As for your Calendar, if you open your iCal do you have any calendars listed?
If you create a new Calendar and make a test entry, does this new Calendar sync to your device? If you create a Calendar appointment on your BlackBerry, does it sync to your iCal?
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Cannot print from Address Book! Print freezes and will not proceed.

I want to print an address list for Christmas cards. When I select the Group, select all and select Print I get the option box. I then select my printer and use the down arrow to open the dialog box that shows I am printing from Address Book and gives the different forms I can use (ie list, label, envelope) as well as the fields to include in the list. Once I have everything selected I click the Print radio button. All of the information under the Address Book options line disappears. Print remains highlighted and my printer Que never opens or appears. If I manually open the printer there is no print job showing. At this point the Address Book application is frozen. I cannot select cancel on the print dialog box (I can click it, but it does not highlight and it does not close the dialog box! In order to get out of this situation I have had to close Address Book. The quit option on the menu does work and Force Quit is unnecessary.
I actually spoke with AppleCare on this issue on Friday 05 Dec 2008. The tech I spoke with knew of no other such situations, but when I started checking on this discussion page I see a posting from REECO from clear back on 24 Sept 2008. His posting can be found at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8161605&tstart=0
The technician had me do several things. One was to pull my Caches folder out of my system Library folder. He also had me remove some Address Book preference items. The end result of these actions was a Mac Pro that would not boot! (The failure followed an Address Book crash with a "KERPROTECTIONFAILURE" and the message that some QualityMedia plugin might have created the problem!)(I could find no such plug in either on my system or via Google search!) The tech had asked me to boot to safe mode by booting while holding down the shift key untill the spinning gear appeared. The machine never progressed to a successful boot! I ended up having to use a 2nd hard drive and physically place it in internal slot 1 on my Mac Pro proceeding to reinstall Tiger! The bad news is that this did NOT solve my printing problem.
If I am attempting to print from a new install with just the Apple address card and the Owner's card in Address book the print proceeds fine. Once I import my data I am back to the same print failure.
Some diagnostic steps I have tried. I have tried USB local printers and bonjour printers. I have used Epson and Canon printers. I have tried to print to a PDF. I have tried printing from another computer (12 inch PowerBook) with identical results!
At this point I am going to call AppleCare Monday morning and see if anyone there has any more suggestions. Any suggestions this forum has will be received gratefully!

I was having the same crash or "just not print" problem as seen in other posts. I was able to fix it however, by making changes in some of the address cards I was going to print. By editing the "parent", "child", "spouse" fields which will get added to the name line of the label, I was able to get labels to print (or pdf preview) without difficulty.
I did not try and determine exactly what the problem was, but basically did a data cleanup. Since I didn't know that those fields would print, I had previously included information beyond just a name in the fields, like birthdates and such, eg. "Jimmy - 12/1/05". After either removing the fields entirely where I didn't really need them, or just cleaning them down to names only, they printed just fine. I'd considered trying to disable the feature entirely but the data cleanup was not hard for a dozen or so names.

Birthdays in Address Book appear 2 days earlier in iCal

I have the correct birthdays in Address Book. However about half of the birthdays (not all) appear in iCal 2 days before (e.g., Address book has correct date of 7/13 and it shows up in iCal on 7/11).
How can I correct this?

I have a similar problem, but only with some of the birthdays. For some reason two appear one day and one year earlier than I have entered them in address book. I would like to know how to sort out the reason for this and correct the errors.

Printing Return Address from Address Book

I'm trying to print a return address label from Address book. It shows up but it's way to large. I would like the return address to be smaller than the Address. Is there a way to change the fonts?

The only way I could find to do this is, from the Print dialog box, click on Layout, then in the Layout field, select Define Custom. Give your new layout a name, then under Sender, reduce the width and height size. I reduced mine to width = 40.00 and height = 20.00. Then it will constrain the size of the return address box to whatever size you set, sizing the font automatically to fit in that box. You can set the font size for the To address to whatever you want.

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