Cannot Delete Address Book Contacts

I can't seem to delete some address book contacts. When I open the address book all my contacts show. But, there is no "plus" or "minus" sign anywhere in the window so I can't use them to highlight a name and simply hit "minus" to delete a name. When I right click on the name the only options it gives me are "edit card" and "export vcard". Even if I choose "edit", nothing happens. When I hightlight a name and just hit the delete or backspace key, again, nothing happens. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I'm having what seems to be exactly the same problem. The only thing I've discovered, if it will help someone solve this for us, is that the problem only affects one user. I have another administrator user and a guest standard user; both of them can edit, add,etc in their own Address book. I've tried everything I can think of, except for reinstalling the OS.
Thanks.

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only way is to restore the phone as new. OR wait until IOS 7 comes out in the fall.

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In my MacBook Pro, i open Address Book and on the left I have te list of all contacts, on the right the selected contact informations, below I only have "Add Contact" or "Share", my friend have "Edit" instead of "Add Contact".
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Here is some information and instructions from Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3998
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I have current software, and a video ipod. I am unable to synch my contacts. When I try, the message is that I have not created any contacts in my address book and would I like to create some now....I do have Address Book contacts and cannot find an answer relating to using a MAC OS system (10.4.9) - they all seem to relate to windows problems. Everything else on my ipod synchs just fine.
Please someone out there - any help?

the easiest is to open AB on G3, select all contacts and drag them to the desktop. that will create one big vcard with all contacts. move it to the mac book and drop it onto AB there.

Where do my deleted Address Book contacts go??

I'm on an exchange server running snow leopard.
I cannot find where the address book app is putting the deleted contacts and folders....
Does anyone know?
I've checked the two logical places, mail trash and the main trash.... no luck.

There are a couple of options.
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You can secure your entire home folder using FileVault (Security System Prefs), but that comes with a few headaches. I don't use it, so I can't offer any advice. It will encrypt you Home folder when you log out so nobody can get to your data without the password, even if the computer is stolen. Time Machine waits until you log out to back up your home folder. This would never work for me.
Also on the Security System Prefs is an option to require a password at wake from Sleep or Screen Saver.
You can set your keychain password different for your account so that it doesn't automatically unlock at login. You can also set the keychain to lock after a period of inactivity using the Keychain Access program--Edit>Change settings for Keychain "login"…
While someone can change your login password using the install disk, that won't change your keychain password, so that info will remain locked.
In the Keychain Access Preferences, you can show the status in the menu bar. From that menu you can Lock the Screen, Your keychain, or all keychains.

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Hi all,
I have read some topics around about similar issue but I was not able to fix the problem by reading at suggestions.
Couple of days ago I have started to populate my address book.
I noticed that I was not able to use Faces from Iphoto to assign a picture to my contacts - the reason was Iphoto and address book probably use the same database and there was no match between a face and a contact. Only solution: retag the faces! I used the following method:
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I tried to delete the contact in the address book, use completely different tags and so on, but no way, it seems like there are some trash data or reference data preventing me from doing that.
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Cheers

Update:
I think I have found the gap: if the name assigned to the Face has no reference with the address book contact, the issue is experienced.
Try to explain: my contact in AB is Dexter Morgan. In IPhoto I start tagging all the pictures as Dexter Morgan. Then I change the Face tag from Dexter Morgan to: "uncle D". I will not be able to use anymore a picture from the group unlce D to set an image to Dexter Morgan contact in AB.
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I am having this similar issue and have searched all over to find the answer. Here are my details of the issue (to see if this is the same issue)
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I see that the Exchange account has the "sync spinng grey wheel"
I disconnect the internet (turn off airport; no ethernet plugged in)
---Also the grey spinning wheel never stops
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Address Book freezes and stays unresponsive for over 10mins
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I think if i could figure out how to Terminal kill that Address Book process then i would be able to delete the account.
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OK, now I am worried and ticked off! I still dont have my contacts back in place...after spending now over 3 hours with three different apple experts. Where my address book contacts went to no one knows. No "experts" at Apple Care or at the local retail store "Genius Bar" seem to have any answers that are working! Even my .mac backup is not working when I try to "restore" my data from several backup dates before when my contacts vanished suddenly.
I have written several emails today to the .Mac support (Unfortunately only available via e-mail.... I had an apple care rep tell me that .Mac is not really Apple, but an outside firm that runs .Mac).
Here is my last email to .Mac support that I just sent out:
<<Apple and .Mac engineers out there: PLEASE help us. There is a bad bug going around where our contacts are being vaporized and making many of us go crazy. Help us get out of this twilight zone of losing all our contact data!!!!
Read all about it from many upset users at:
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6939388#69393 88
Then call me at (my phone number) so I can tell you whats going on with my case and HELP me get my info back! I have sent several other emails to you here today.
Thanks!
Marcel Howard D.>>
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Problems with outlook and address book contacts: my outlook contacts had around 3,000 entries. Outlook duplicated entries and have now 340,000. I reinstalled microsoft office and, thus, outlook, and reinstalled mac OS X system and applications. While I managed to delete outlook contacts so that I can re-sync with my blackberry, the contacts at Mac Address Book were not deleted and still have over 340,000 entries. I do not mind deleting all contacts since I have back up, but I have not been able to delete them. Also, when I go at Address Book and try to delete or merge duplicated entries, the system takes forever and never ends because of such large amount of entries. Worse, when I do so I run out of RAM memory.
My Macbook pro is just 2 months old.
What should I do? Is there a way to delete my Mac Address Book without having the problem above?
Many thanks
Regis

zlatan24 wrote:
For solving out troubles connected with corrupted or lost address book you may use address book recovery. It owns various features such as restoring wab files, it working under any Windows OS. The utility has modern and easy to use interface due to almost every experienced users.
If it is a windows problem it's not going to run on the OP's MacBook Pro

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Hi There,
Would be grateful for some assistance.
I've got all my contacts and other things in iCloud - wonderful!
I've managed to get all my contacts from iCloud to show up in Address book.
I want to sync my address book contacts in Outlook 2011 - after three days of trying I'm still stuck.
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Enthusiast: I just got back from the Apple Store. This is the solution they suggested and seems to work. We got rid of iCloud contacts. We just set up Yahoo account in the "mail, contacts, calendars" of the iPhone. Under the "contacts" section we have the "default Account" set to Yahoo. When any additions/delete/mods happen then it is updated on Yahoo.
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