Correction to address book

with all the back ups, I now have double and triple entry in my address book, how can I correct this without having to go thru this 284 times?

Hello t:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Are you sure Thunderbird accesses the OS X Address Book application? I do not use Thunderbird, but I did note that you can export addresses from Thunderbird to Apple's application (and probably vice versa), but I did not (in a cursory review of the Mozilla web site) find that Thunderbird directly accesses Address Book.
Barry

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Huh. Apparently I have to have my iPhone connected, then it will sync everything including the Google contacts. Funny that it wouldn't sync without it.
So I guess the moral of the story is to make sure that everything is connected and if you have an iPod/iPhone, initialize the sync through iTunes. Bizzare.
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Hello
if my knowledge is correct, the address book is stored in the o=piservdb tree in the Directory server.
but how is that data stored? because when I export an ldif of o=piservdb tree and i look for a certain user which i know has nearly 2000 contacts in his AB i can only find a few entries (about 7)
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sharularity wrote:
Address book in Lion is terrible.
Any chance Apple will go back to the address book in Leopard?
I doubt it but who knows. Maybe you can look for an alternative to buy from the App Store.
Otherwise give your feedback at
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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It's DEFINITELY a bug! My wife's name is "Jac" and every time I correct the address book to be "Jac" with no surname (or no Christian name and "Jac" as the surname) with in a day or so her contact is listed as "Jac Jac."
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HI and Welcome to Apple Discussions..
Try rebuilding the mailbox.
From the Mac Mail Menu Bar, click Mailbox / Rebuild.
Takes a few minutes to run.
If that doesn't help, go to Mail/Preferences. Make not of the preferences under each tab then Quit Mail and locate this file.
~/Library/Preferences. Move that .plist file to the Trash and restart your Mac.
Carolyn
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n Mac Mail on OS 10.5.8 I am receiving bogus emails which claim to be sent by people in my address book, but actually are not. How does this happen and how can I correct this problem

You said:
I am receiving bogus emails which claim to be sent by people in my address book, but actually are not.
...and:
Are you saying that my address book has not been hacked into? That others are getting these email addresses from another source?
This confuses me. Are you saying that you are receiving bogus e-mails from some of your contacts, or are you saying that they are receiving bogus e-mails from you?
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