Contact is hidden, but there - not sure what to do?
Hi folks,
Today I received an email from a new contact. I did what I normally do and ctrl-clicked on their email address in Mail and opted to add new contact to address book.
But when I look up their name in the Address Book they are not there. Yet when I tried to add their mailing address (from within their email message) it would pull up their name as an existing contact. I added their address, and phone number. But still they do not appear in the Address Book.
I have closed it and reopened. No luck. I've no had this occur before and did nothing different from what I usually do.
I have tried adding them in manually. Then when I use the context menu to add an address and phone number to an existing contact it will show me two entries for their name. It does not matter which which I select to add this data to... it will not show up on the contact card I manually added for them in Address Book. I have to enter that manually also.
Is there any way I can view and edit the address book database file manually to see if this "lost" contact card is there?
With much thanks,
Jonathan
I fixed it by following this advice which was given to fix another issue:
The problem seems to be with the AddressBook-v22.abcddb file. You will find it in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/.
First, I quite address book. Then, I removed the file, AddressBook-v22.abcddb, from the folder to another folder (I did not delete it at first just to be sure). Then I restarted Address Book. This worked and restored the ability to add a contact from mail.
I also removed the MailRecents file from the same folder just in case that was the problem, but I think the issue was really the other file.
Found this here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10727711
Any ideas as to what would cause this issue?
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