Dates all show up as 5th of month in mail and address book. Why?

In my address book and mail, all dates (birthdays, date received/sent, etc) show up as the 5th of whatever month. In address book, I can see the correct date if I go to "edit" and then click on the date as if I'm going to edit it, but that gets a bit old. In mail, however, I can't see what date an email was sent or received - they all say 5 (example: January 5, 2011 shows up for everything I've sent and received so far this year).
Is anyone else having this problem?

Yes - just noticed your post when I asked the same question a moment ago. I have this problem on my I-Mac but not on my MacBook. Did you get an answer?

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Does anyone know where mail and address book saves its data?
My old mac died but I was able to remove the hard drive and mount it in a external firewire case. The drive mounts and appears in good shape. I tried using the migration utility to transfer my data into my new iMac. While a lot of data and applications did make the move, my mail files and folders did not show up on my new iMac. I'm hoping I can transfer the mail files manually. The problem is I can't find where they are located on my old computer. I was using Max os 10.4.11 on my old computer.
The same problem with my address book data. It did not transfer over with migration app. and I can't locate this data either.

The majority of Mail is in...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
AB...
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I've now done Literally every possible thing listed in the help
or that I was told to do in this thread, and nothing has worked.
Not sure what you mean. Have you tried uninstalling all the plug-ins as well? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
To make accurately reporting this information easier, you may open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you can just copy it here and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>. You can then copy the output of that command from Terminal and paste it in your reply to this post:
ls -1 /Library/InputManagers /Library/Mail/Bundles ~/Library/InputManagers ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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Hello,
How do I easily transfer data from Palm Desktop to iCal and Address Book?
I have a Palm Tungsten E handheld which just died.
Luckily, all my data is backed-up on my Palm Desktop V4.2.1.
I just bought an iPod-Touch, so I would like to easily transfer
all my data (Addressbook, Calendar, etc) from the Palm Desktop
on my Mac (OSX 10.5) to the equivalent Mac applications
(Address Book, iCal) which will then allow me to view and update
them on my iPod-Touch.
How do I easily transfer data from Palm Desktop to iCal and Address Book?
Thanks in advance for your help.
David

Hi David. The contact information is straightforward. Bring up your Address List in Palm Desktop, then select Export under file. You pick vCard as the format, and save the resulting file where ever. In Address Book, you then select Import --> vCards under file. You may need to edit things like birthdays by hand afterwards.
I am still working on the Calendar information.
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Hello tay8000m and welcome to the Palm forums.
Have you tried running the "Repair Disk Permissions" command in Apple's Disk Utility application yet? Launch Disk Utility, select "Macintosh HD" from the left side of the window, and then click the "Repair Disk Permissions" button.
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I last week moved from my old Mac Pro G5 with OS 10.5 to a new iMac 2.8 GHz Intel core i7.
I succeeded pretty well to move my different files from one computer to the other not using the Migration assistant, which wouldn't work properly, but using my older Mac Pro as target disk.
Everything apparently works well with the exception of the transfer of data from iCal and my Address Book.
As suggested in a previous thread : kimaccdual: A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs, I tried to transfer the complete iCal and Address Book folders from : Home/Library/Application Support from the old to the new computer. This gave no result at all. Not any of the older data : appointments from iCal; names, addresses, phone numbers, etc (in actual fact : nothing) from the Address book application appears on the new iMac.
Can any one make a suggestion as to what specific files with their exact location contain this information so that I could try to transfer these to my new computer with more success than so far.
Thanks for your assistance
Just for your information I succeeded to transfer Bookmarks from Safari, mails from Mail, iPhoto and iTunes data.
What could be wring with iCal and Address Book ???

Kappy,
Thanks for your quick reply.
I tried this for the iCal application, however without any success. In actual fact in Home/Library/Preferences I only found following references to iCal :
com.apple.iCal.AlarmScheduler.plist
com.apple.iCal.helper.plist
com.apple.iCal.plist
which i copied from the old to the new computer as well as the iCal folder in Application Support as suggested.
As already said without any success.
As far as Address Book is concerned only the same type of files, but related to AB, are located on both computers.
Am I missing something or should I look for other files elsewhere f.i. in the "Contents" folder of the application itself ???
Thanks for anybody's further assistance

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Is it possible to have two (or more) different icloud mail accounts (not alias) under the same apple id? If not what is you best advice for all family members to have their own e-mail and still share the purchases under the same apple id. Thanks

mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
So I basically won't run into any trouble? I
There should be no issues. Its designed to work like that. You don't change Apple IDs just because you get a new device.
mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
Is there any chance that the phones can fall out of sync?
Unlikely. But nothing is impossible. Though I don;t see how that would happen. As long as both are signed into the Same Apple ID / iCloud Account they will be N'Sync. (Bad Joke)
mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
If I get a message or buy an app or take a photo on the iPhone 5, how do I get those things onto the iPhone 6?
If you buy an App, you have 2 ways to get it to the iPhone6: If Automatic Downloads is enabled in Settings->iTunes & App Store, it will automatically download to the iPhone 6 when you buy it on the 5 and vice versa if you buy it on the 6, it will download to the 5.
Alternatively, you can simply go to the App Store App->Updates->Purchased and look for the App there and download it. Purchased Apps will not require payment again. i.e They'll be free to download to the iPhone 6 once purchased.
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Images, can be transferred either through Photo Stream
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Or any Cloud service you want such as Dropbox, or One Drive.
mannyace wrote:
Also, something i forgot to ask initially: Should I update the iPhone 5 to iOS 8 first or does that not matter?
If you want the Continuity features as explained above you need to update the iPhone 5 to iOS 8. Otherwise its not all that important.

Signing out, keeping the data of iCal and address book on my mac

I would like to sign out of iCloud - it doesn´t make too much sense for me right now - without loosing my iCal and address book-data. How can I secure the data on my mac instead of having it on iCloud?

Open Address Book, choose File>Export>Address Book Archive
Open iCal, choose File>Export>iCal Archive
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Is there a way to recover old emails? I moved a few folders around on the hard disk and now my emails have reverted to Factory settings and all my old emails and address book have vanished. I am still running on 10.4.11 and Apple can not help me.

Is there a way to recover old emails? I moved a few folders around on the hard disk and now my emails have reverted to Factory settings and all my old emails and address book have vanished. I am still running on 10.4.11 and Apple can not help me. Does anyone out there have any idea on how to recover my lost emails and/or addresses?

Well, your profile info says 10.4.11, and you are posting your question in the iMac (PPC) category. If you are running Snow Leopard, it must be a fairly recent Intel iMac.
In that case, you should definitely post your question here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard
where other Snow Leopard users can see your question. Restate the problem, what error messages you get, and what you have tried already (for trouble-shooting).

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Hey sheepshead,
Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
Thanks for the question.
This is caused by having multiple address books on the BlackBerry smartphone. This can also cause syncrhonization issues, I would suggest following the steps in this KB article to make address book number the same as address book all: www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19704
Let me know if you have any more questions.
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I have itunes on my windows desktop song that i have pourchasred on line i am trying to move to me andorid phone thay all come over but some of them are protected and wont play why is that

I have itunes on my windows desktop song that i have pourchasred songs online i am trying to move the songs to me andorid phone thay all come over but some of them are protected and wont play why is that

They will not play because they are protected.
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Why to current dates all show 2008?

For some time now, the dates in Mail all show the year 2008. When I open a mail message, it shows the correct date. I also have this problem in iCal: if I search for events in iCal, they all show the year 2008; however, they are in chronological order, and I can figure out what year they should be. And in the Finder, today's files will show as Today, and yesterday's files will show as Yesterday, however, the following day, yesterday's files will have the correct month and day, but the year 2008. Is there a .plist file I can delete that will get things back on track?
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Sorry I took so long responding; I thought that I would receive an email.
Interestingly, I had to make both the suggested changes of kurt and Niel. Together, they fixed the problem. Thanks very much to both of you. For some reason, in the Language & Text pane of the System Preferences, the short format was: 1/5/08. The "1" and "5" were drop-down selections, but the "08" was not; it acted as a constant. When I changed that, the short form of the date displayed correctly. It solved the date problem in iCal, and with Kurt's change, Mail was straightened out.

ICal and Address book data not pushed from iCloud to 10.6 Snow Leopard

Hello,
When I signed up to iCould, it said it will automatially push all data to my devices.
However, the data I entered in contacts and calendar of my iPhone 4, does not appear in the Address Book and iCal of my MacBook Air with 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.
Nether address book nor iCal gives the possibility to choose this type of syncing in preferences (there's only mobile me account mentioned there, to which I cannot sign up anymore).
I checked in my icoud.com - i can see my new iCal data from iPhone there, but the address book is exaclty the same as in my MacBook Air. In other words, my new contacts are neither pushed from my iPhoe to iCloud (though I did choose this option in my iPhone), nor from icould to my Mac Book Air.
Moreover, iTunes no longer syncs neither my Adreess Book nor iCal data manually since I've signed up for icoud. It says I do not need to sync via iTunes, as now all this data will be pushed from iCloud (which isn't happening). Even though I try to do it manually, the new data on iPhone simply does not show up in my Mac Book Air after the syncing is finished.
Can someone please help me deal with this problem. Or maybe you know how to get to good old times, when I could sync everything manually?
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I read an article in Apple Support not long ago about some features in iCloud that were usable in Snow Leopard, but I can't find it right now. I believe some syncing to iCloud from iTunes.
Possible update to SL coming.
http://www.macstories.net/news/snow-leopard-to-get-basic-icloud-compatibility-wi th-10-6-9/
This might help you sync:
http://www.macstories.net/news/snow-leopard-to-get-basic-icloud-compatibility-wi th-10-6-9/

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