Custom pics in Address Book rather than Facebook pics?

How do I get Mac Mail to reference pics from contacts cards "On My Mac" rather than "Facebook" contact cards (for the same person) without permanently disabling Facebook syncing in Address Book? I'd rather use my own pics for some of these people.

Hi Rhys.Perrin,
This article describes how to change a contact's image to one of your choosing:
Contacts: Add or change contact pictures
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11580
I hope this helps!
- Ari

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Is it possible to only allow a "user" to access certain, or 1 group in address book rather than the whole address book library itself by using osx server
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Hi Jaime,
I just wanted to jump in here with a quick question... on Mac OS X Server my understanding was that with the open directory, you can't designate organizational groups for the ldap service. Without that ability, how are you limiting what ldap users can see?
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I'm trying to print a custom envelope fro address book and keep getting the message No Pages were selected from the document.

I'm trying to print a custom envelope from Address book using one of my groups. I keep getting a No Pages were selected message. Anybody have any Ideas?

Hello, I find that only entries with Home or Work filled in with an address will show.
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Upload as a book rather than as a Textbook?

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Just wondering if I can upload a book I've created with iBooks Author as a standard book rather than as a textbook?
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I add custom labels to the Template in Address Book Preferences. There's no problem at this stage, the custom labels appear along with the preset labels in the Template. But when I leave Preferences, go back to Address Book and add a new card, the custom labels disappear.
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Any help would be appreciated. And thank you in advance.

Barney-15E: Thanks for your previous reply!
Would you check this work-around for me? I think I found a way to compose a master list of custom labels and have them available for multiple cards (new and old) in Address Book on a MacBookPro and in the Contacts directory on an iPhone. I have tried compiling a master list of custom labels using Address Book Preferences/Template and I find there's a limit to the number of custom labels I can add as a label for each field.
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1) Go to the iPhone Contacts directory.
2) Add a new card.
2) Enter data in these fields: address, date, email, and phone. The standard label will appear on the screen below the data.
3) Tap the standard label and you will go to a screen with 2 windows. The top window has the standard or preset labels for that field but below it in a second window is a button "Add Custom Label". Tap on this button and you will be able to add the text for a Custom Label for each of these fields. This will then become a master list of Custom Labels that can be used in most labels in the iPhone Contacts Directory.
4) If you have your IPhone set up to synch with your MacBookPro or iMac, the entry in the iPhone Contacts directory will be transferred to your other Mac, with the Custom Labels.
Barney - 15E: Can you find a glitch??? To me it seems to make a master list of custom labels available for all card, new and old. The only problem is that the input has to be done on the iPhone.

Truncated custom labels in Address Book problem

When I create a custom label for telephone numbers in Address Book, for eg I change "mobile" to "work mobile", only the first eight or nine characters of this are displayed. The remainder of the label is truncated to ... regardless of the size of the window.
With acres of empty white space to the right of the telephone number, it would be nice to be able to see the entire label. Does anyone know how to do this?
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Dave.

Thank you for your reply. But I do want to clarify. I am not trying to sync Address Book Groups, but rather custom-named fields from Address Book. The computer program allows you to give your own name to any of the fields on a contact's card. In the example I gave, the single contact card named "GoDaddy" has three custom labels, one for each of the contact people within the company. Something like this:
GoDaddy
Tim - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Ryan - xxx-xxx-xxxx
James - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Main: xxx-xxx-xxxx
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Soon I will be able to test it myself, but as of now I still do not have access to a blackberry to test this...

Custom Labels in Address Book

I've been following the news about Blackberry Desktop for the mac, but I will not have the opportunity to try it for myself until another 2 weeks, so I hope that the community here will be able to provide the answer to some of the questions that I have not seen answered here yet.
In the Apple Address Book I use custom labels to designate the names of particular contact people within an organization. For instance, on my contact card for GoDaddy support I have three phone numbers, each with a custom label of the contact person's name.
Has anybody used custom labels in their sync? Is the Blackberry then able to recognize the labels properly?

Thank you for your reply. But I do want to clarify. I am not trying to sync Address Book Groups, but rather custom-named fields from Address Book. The computer program allows you to give your own name to any of the fields on a contact's card. In the example I gave, the single contact card named "GoDaddy" has three custom labels, one for each of the contact people within the company. Something like this:
GoDaddy
Tim - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Ryan - xxx-xxx-xxxx
James - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Main: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Rather than using the standard "mobile", "fax", "home" labels, I've assigned my own values. I'm wondering (and now with significant doubts) if the blackberry will automatically sync those entries.
Soon I will be able to test it myself, but as of now I still do not have access to a blackberry to test this...

Custom fields from Address Book on desktop don't sync to iPhone

I recently switched from a Palm Treo to iPhone. The sync wasn't seamless so I am editing contact info one at a time. I noticed that when I add custom fields to a card in Address Book they don't sync to my contacts in iPhone...why?
For example, I've created fields for the names of children but when I view the contact on my phone I only get the contacts Bday, Anniv and Notes section. Very frustrating since I'm spending time filling all of this info in. Can anyone help? Thanks!!

I also migrated from a Treo to an iPhone, and was hoping to have custom field information transfer from my desktop to my iPhone. It would be rather handy when I need help remembering the name of someone's spouse, etc. Has someone created an iPhone app for this perhaps?

Deleting custom labels from Address Book (& iPhone !)

Not sure if this has been covered, but I've got a lot of extrraneous custom labels created in Address Book.
Does anyone know how to remove the ones not wanted any longer ? Just that the list gets longer and longer each time !
Shame Apple didn't think to have all labels done with the first letter capitalised - looks much better that way.

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Custom fields in address book merged in pages document

I viewed this Paragraph below from the following link on the Apple Site
http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/iwork/sara.html
As an administrative tool, she says, “All the documents we create with Pages — contracts, correspondence, receipts — are set up with data fields for the customer information I keep in my Address Book.
The drag-and-drop ease of Pages’ Mail Merge is just huge for us. Not only names and contacts, but wedding dates, locations, and the details of the service package they’ve ordered. So I can just drag the contact over any document, and it automatically populates the fields with the client’s information. This ensures that all our crucial customer information stays up to date and in one place, and we never have to duplicate work when we create documentation.
__ I cant find out how to do this as all the forums say this is not possible. I have contacted the person but do not have a response from them as yet. I have tried to do this but it wont populate the fields into the pages document..hmmmmm
Can this be done as described

Broker1972 wrote:
Sorry! I reposted because it wasn't answered.
Does Apple post this stuff on their site that the program cant do?
Did you check out the link? Did I read the article wrong? Can we advise them of this?
It seems that you don't understand what this forum is.
Here we are users trying to help other users.
The terms os use ask everybody to search in the existing thread before asking a question.
It seems that you didn't do that because searching in
"more options"
"iWork '08"
with the keyword "Addressbook"
gave some threads in which I peeked:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6559156
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6374991
So, as you may see, I checked the links, I knew what was written in them.
There is no false advertising or misleading here because the contents of these forums is not written by Apple's employees, just by users as you are.
So, I repeat: you reposted when the response was already available:
_iWork components are unable to import custom fields from AddressBook._
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 15 février 2008 16:30:55)

Reduce size of custom images in Address Book

I love Address Book's wonderful integration with Mail.app, my iPod and even my phone. So, one day I decided to set custom images for almost all of my contacts - copying and pasting images into the fields.
However, afterwards, I realised that my 275 contact address book has ballooned from 2MB to 49.9MB thanks to the pictures. If I export the contacts into a Group vCards, it is an astounding 121.8 MB.
I feel that Apple should've limited the size of the pictures (automatically resize it just as iPhoto does for email and iWeb does for the web). However, this isn't the case.
Thus, my question is:
Is there a script or anything to reduce the size of those custom images? I am not looking forward to deleting the pictures and resizing them before importing them into Address Book. If there is an automated way of resizing the pictures, please let me know!
Thank you very much!

Hi mintchocicecream,
Have a look at this:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2271577#2271577
May be of no help, but sounds like you have larger that necessary files.
I do mot know of any script, short of a photoshop group resize that would work. Certainly nothing in Address Book.
Good Luck
John

Custom image from Address book not syncing to Exchange.

I am running Mac OS X v 10.7.5. I have added custom images to contacts in address book. I have an Exchange account which will sync the data (ie name, address, email) but not the custom image. Is there away to have custom images sync to Exchange/Outlook?

I'm Running Mac OS X Lion, and have seen that changes made in the mac address book do not sync to gmail contacts but changes to gmail contacts do sync to the mac address book.
Making a change to a contact on my phone does sync to gmail contacts, and then to the mac address book.
Another test I ran was to change the same contact in gmail and mac address book. I made a change to a mobile number and notes in one contact on my mac address book, attempted to sync, and the change does not appear in my gmail contacts. I tried multiple times, restarted my web browser, restarted mac address book, the sync would not work. I changed the same contact mobile number in gmail with a slightly different change to the notes field so I could see when an update occurred, and when I told mac address book to sync it recognized a conflict. When I select the mac address book change to resolve the conflict, the gmail contact is not updated. When I repeated the experiment and selected the gmail contact to resolve the conflict the change is made in the mac address book.

Order of custom labels on Address Book

When I edit custom labels on telephone field, in a new Card, and save it, the order of custom labels changes everytime I entry in Address Book's Card, apparently in random order.
Can someone help me?

same problem here. I even trashed my cache and prefs for Address Book, re-opened the application and set up the custom template from scratch. Alas, the order of fields seems completely random once a filled-out card is displayed. Trashing the prefs seemed to help from the standpoint that I can now go in and (very tediously) cut/paste info from the fields (and change the labels accordingly) and it seems to stay in that order once saved. Annoying problem…
Update: Well, it seems that the order is not retained once closing and re-opening the Address Book application. Each time it re-opens, the fields are in a random order. The order of the fields in MobileMe seem slightly more stable, but not completely. Very strange.
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Referencing and hopfully deleting custom dates in Address Book?

I'm really struggling with this as a AS newbie.
I want to delete all custom date values from selected Address Book records. I am using the following script which successfully deletes Birthdays but cannot handle custom dates such as "Anniversary".
can someone please help me out?
Thanks Paul
tell application "Address Book"
set mySelection to selection
repeat with this_person in mySelection
delete birth date of this_person
end repeat
save addressbook
end tell

Hi palouis
I think this is what your after, but according to the Applescript Engineer Chris Nebel, it appears that their is a bug, maybe follow it up to see where they are at with fixing it.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2007/Nov/msg00115.html
Budgie

Loss of custom labels in Address Book

I have lost the custom labels for many of my telephone entries in Address Book. This has not affected every contact but has wiped them out for some contacts that had six phone numbers. Now I don't know what the phone numbers are for. Can anyone help?

I have recieved no reply to my question. Could the Apple monitor have a look and let me know what to do. Is there a help manual for Adress Book. The help file attached to the program does not provide any information about custom labels.
I have lost the custom labels for many of my
telephone entries in Address Book. This has not
affected every contact but has wiped them out for
some contacts that had six phone numbers. Now I don't
know what the phone numbers are for. Can anyone help?

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