Can Address Book open to default account?

I am just trying to move from Outlook 2011 to Mail/Address Book/iCal. I noticed that each time I open Address Book, it defaults to all of my accounts combined (exchange address books and mobile me, etc.). I usually only want to use and search one particular account's addresses. Is there any way to force Address Book to open to my default account? It is current set to my main Exchange account.

Hi Matt,
I'm trying to figure this out also. So far, I haven't been able to figure out how. All contacts are sync'd but not in groups. Hopefully, someone will have a suggestion.
Clint
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For example, I have an account for work and an acount for personal use. Suppose I have two contacts: "Mark Smith" a friend & "Mark Jones" a colleague. If I type "M" in the adress field of my email I would like for only "Mark Smith" to appear if I am composing that email from my personal account and only "Mark Jones" to appear if I am composing that email from my work account.
I am running Thunderbird 31.3.0 on Ubuntu 14.10.

@sfhowes: That sounds just like what I'm looking for. Thanks.

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You haven't understood me. Follow these steps:
1. Log in the user where are the files you want to transfer, and open a Finder window.
2. In Finder, select Go menu (on the menu bar) > Go to Folder, and type /Users/Shared. Now you're on Shared folder, so leave that window.
3. Open a new Finder window without closing the old one, go to the folder with the files you want to transfer, and copy them to Shared folder.
4. After copying the files to Shared folder, go to  > Log Out, and log in the other user.
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If you want all users to access the same music, ratings, playlist, etc, do this.
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2 Drag your entire iTunes folder from /Username/Music to /Users/Shared.
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1 Log in on your other account(s).
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5 Now go to File -> *Add to library* and select the iTunes folder located in /Username/Music.
6 - iTunes will add all the music in from this account to the main iTunes music folder/library.
7 Delete the iTunes folder in Username/Music
8 Restart iTunes normally (don't hold Option). Everything should be there.
9 Quit iTunes and log out of the account.
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Whenever any of you do anything in iTunes, it will be seen by all since you are using one and the same iTunes library file.
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Hi,
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Something puzzles me :
I have a very simple script with only these two lines :
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end tell
This script is saved as a simple script.
When I open the script with script editor,
* if script editor was already open, the script opens normally and I can edit it
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There are a couple of solutions to that one.
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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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11.03.12 18:05:12,474 Address Book: ServerNotifications: Setting delegate to APSD
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I hope you can help me here.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Matt,
I'm trying to figure this out also. So far, I haven't been able to figure out how. All contacts are sync'd but not in groups. Hopefully, someone will have a suggestion.
Clint
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