Custom images all jumbled in Address book

I have about 4000 contacts in my address book. Some of them had custom images (photo) attached. I sync my Mac, .Mac, and iPhone routinely.
One day, my Address Book decided to jumble up all the photos. Not nice. Is there a way to delete all my custom images from my address listings? I know how to do it individually, but there are too many to delete that way.

It appears that there is a major bug in this new version of Address Book. First I found that when you go in the "Print" panel, go to "Envelopes", go to "Layout", and then go in Layout to "Layout" submenu and use "Define Custom" which comes up "Layout Name" and when type in any name and click "OK" it UN-SELECTS the "Layout Panel" and you cannot change any of the parameters, BUT I discovered that if after you type in a "Layout Name", click "OK": and then click "Cancel" and then again open "Print". It opens to the same place as before (with everything the same) BUT with the Layout Panel SELECTED and you can now change all the parameters. I don't know about the printer printing blank sheets, because my printer seems to work fine. But I have a HP and you have an Epson. Hopefully those geniuses at Apple will get around to fixing this problem sometime in 2006 or 2007, who knows!!!!!

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How can I delete ALL of my Address Book entries and start fresh?

Yes. I know that sounds extreme, but……
I use Outlook on a PC at my office, and I have an sbcglobal/Yahoo mail account. I look upon my office Outlook as my ultimate contacts list (over 1,100 entries) and my calendar.
I use the sbc supplied free Intellisync software to sync all of my calendar and contacts from my office PC into sbc/Yahoo. That way I actually get e-mail reminders of appointments, etc. in addition to my Outlook notifications. It is actually pretty nifty.
I have also successfully signed-on to my Yahoo account at home on my MAC and exported all of my contacts from Yahoo (which had been populated by the PC Outlook listings via Intellisync) onto my desktop and then imported them into Address Book. But I did that some time ago and now my Outlook listings have been updated rather substantially. I would like to able to do a complete re-install of the new and improved contacts from the Yahoo repository.
Again - I certainly do not want to delete the Address Book app itself – I just want to start with a clean slate so there are no conflicts or duplicate entries (which in fact is seemingly a bug in the Yahoo/Intellisync. Is there a way to completely wipe clean all of my Address Book entries?
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Theo
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Hello Allan -
Your help on a previous post was great re: my wanting to know how to delete the Address Book contents so I can re-import an updated list form my office Outlook, via my yahho/sbcglobal import.
Well - here is an interesting quandary:
I have successfully exported my yahoo address book/contacts as a .vcf file Yet - once I have expunged the prior Address Book data and want to now import the NEW Yahoo data to rebuild the database it only takes (enters) the phone numbers and does NOT import ANY of the address information. I am positive I did this once since our original exchange and everything transferred just fine, but now….?!
What I cannot determine is where the fault may be: does the export NOT include the addresses (in which case I am doing something fundamentally stupid wit the export) or the vcf cards are complete, but Address Book is not “seeing” anything other than the phone #s and e-mail addresses.
Any thoughts?
Dazed and confused
Theo

How to delete all contact in address book

Hi,
How to delete all contact in address book.
And disable the address book to sync with outlook 2011.
Using Macook pro 10.7.2

Actually I already copy all my cd,mp3 in my itunes I got 2457items song (all in my mac os hardisk).
Now I need to sync all my music and movie using icloud or itunes match.
I don;t want to use the cable. I wanted to sync using icloud or itunes match.
1. Can all the music and movie sync with icloud and direct sync with my iphone?
2. Or all music and movie using itunes match and sync into my iphone?
Is the cable only the way to sync all the music and movie.
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Lost all contacts in Address Book. How can I restore them?

I have inadvertently deleted all my contacts from Address Book, as a result of trying to delete them all from MS Outlook. (I deleted them from Outlook and they all vanished from Address Book too)
I gather I can restore them using Time Machine, which I have set up on a Time Capsule, but I've never used it before.
What is it that I restore to get my contacts back into Address Book please? I have tried restoring Address Book itself, but that doesn't seem to restore my contacts.

restoring the address book, restores the application but not the files.
Launch Address Book application and while opened, Launch the Time machine by clicking on its icon on the dock. Go back in time, confirm if you see all your contacts. This is what you need to establish and KNOW first else forget Time machine since its not there.
If its there, select all your contacts command + A then hit restore
If its not there. It will be difficult bringing it back, il be honest. you can go for data recovery but that's 50-50

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How do i send an email to all of my address book contacts :

Select them all and drag them to the To line of a new message (or, better, the BCC line). But be aware that most e-mail servers put limits on the number of addresses a single message can be sent to and daily limits on how many different addresses you're allowed to send e-mails to, as spam control measures.

How do I send a message to all in my address book?

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Hey Grupo Castillo,
Thanks for the question. You can actually configure this behavior from Mail preferences:
1. Choose Preferences from the Mail menu.
2. Click Composing.
3. Deselect the checkbox for "When sending to a group, show all member addresses".
When you send an email to the group, only the groups name will be seen.
Mac OS X: Mail - How to Hide Address Book Group Member Names When Sending an Email
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21082
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How do you get the custom fields added to a address book to show up on Pages 09 when merging fields?

I created some custom fields in the address book and want to get them merged into a Pages 09 document. When using the merge fields feature in Pages, only the standard fields are displayed. I am looking for a way to have the custom fields from the address book inserted into the document.

I believe you will find them if you go to table - unhide all columns. When you drag and drop card(s) into pages, it automatically shows default fields. The others are there but hidden. I hope this works for you!

Invoke the image selecting thing in Address Book on regular images?

When you select an image in Address Book, there's this button that allows you to put the image through filters. There's a similar thing in Adium, so I'm assuming it's some sort of thing that can be called at will by osx. Is there a way to do this on just like, a regular image lying around in a folder or on my Desktop?
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Hi Catherine,
I was aware of what you had asked for.
I was starting with my memories of what used to work in iChat.
Excuse the width of this pic But in the "Recents" section I chose the Union Flag and changed it to that instead of my regular Sig pic.
Uploaded with Skitch!
I have put up the Address Book along side to show that the Address Book does not change.
I can do similar with a Buddy pic (although what I have now was not that easy and has included a shut down of the computer)
Uploaded with Skitch!
To restate what I did yesterday.
I highlighted the PC at home Buddy in the Main list (the one in the "background")
I brought up the Info Card (CDM + i together)
I dragged a Pic to the Buddy's pic in the card and it change there to the wedding pic.
It did not change in the Buddy list so I looked in the Address Book
It had changed there.
As a test I then quit Messages and when I reopened it the pic was the one from the Address Book.
Today I have then reset the Sig pic (all Buddy List get the same Buddy Pic at the moment)
Therefore Messages is Sending a different pic than the Address Book and it is showing that rather than the Address Book card pic.
I do realize that I may be getting different results to you as I seem to have lost the ability to edit the Address Book directly.
The Pic changed via iChat but I cannot change it back.
On another Note, iChat used to be able to set the Buddy Pics for each Buddy List separately and I don't seem to have that option either.
8:07 PM Thursday; April 26, 2012
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Cannot place image on contact in Address Book

Hello,
When trying to place an image by either dragging and dropping, editing and double clicking on the image placeholder the image does not stay.
I have opened console and found the following when trying to drop an image (it can be any image, jpg, gif, png of any size)
28/09/11 6:49:52.640 AM Address Book: Error deleting large image: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "“10DB0044-275C-49E1-9070-C7E7A9715E8F-e2acd380.tiff” couldn’t be moved because you don’t have permission to access “Images”." UserInfo=0x7f90deaf4580 {NSUserStringVariant=(
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I worked it out.
The Images folder within: /Users/rachealleeb/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ had no access. Gave myself Read write. all is good.

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It appears that there is a major bug in this new version of Address Book. First I found that when you go in the "Print" panel, go to "Envelopes", go to "Layout", and then go in Layout to "Layout" submenu and use "Define Custom" which comes up "Layout Name" and when type in any name and click "OK" it UN-SELECTS the "Layout Panel" and you cannot change any of the parameters, BUT I discovered that if after you type in a "Layout Name", click "OK": and then click "Cancel" and then again open "Print". It opens to the same place as before (with everything the same) BUT with the Layout Panel SELECTED and you can now change all the parameters. I don't know about the printer printing blank sheets, because my printer seems to work fine. But I have a HP and you have an Epson. Hopefully those geniuses at Apple will get around to fixing this problem sometime in 2006 or 2007, who knows!!!!!

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So sorry...yes I'm using Contacts from Outlook.
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I want to copy Thunderbird from Vista to Windows 7 - including all messages and address book

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''ramparts [[#question-1042971|said]]''
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Glad it working. I couldn't remember if Lion had a limit but usually it's your ISP that limits sending to a group. In the past it used to be 50 contacts but now most let you send up to 200 in a group.
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