Delete Address Book Entirely?

I keep a pretty robust address book and I find it easier to update a master list in a .WAB file and reload into mobile devices. Does anyone know how to mass delete the address book using the desktop software? I'm connected to a Curve 8310.

Connect the BlackBerry to the computer and then open the Desktop Manager and go to Backup/Restore > Advanced. On the right-hand side should be all the databases for the BlackBerry. Highlight the Address Book and then select Clear. If you are connected via a BES and have wireless synchronization enabled then the database option will be greyed out. You would have to disable wireless synchronization in order to clear it this way.

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Accidentally deleted address book

hi , am running leopard on a mac mini and accidentally deleted the address book program that was moved to the desktop from the applications folder and hiding behind the dock .
Time machine wasn't set up to backup any data yet , and i'm afraid the entire address book has been lost . Just before the trash was emptied , there were numerous updates performed thru software update , for the iwork and ilife suites , and the computer has been restarted one time . I had also reinstalled the 10.5.1 update . is there any way to retrieve the deleted address book without having to use 3rd party software like pacifist to pull a new copy of address book from the leopard install disc and rebuild it from scratch ?

Not that I know of.
However, you only lost the application.
You apparently did not loose all the information.
The information is located in Users/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder.
If that AddressBook folder is still there, then so is all of your information.
Joseph Kriz

HT2500 delete address book entries

How do you delete address book entries?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
With Address Book open, select the entry to be deleted in the Name (middle) column by clicking on it.
Now select Edit, Delete Card from the top menubar.
The option to delete a card does not appear unless a card is selected first.

Why can't I edit or delete Address Book "On My Mac" or sync with iCloud?

Why can't I edit or delete Address Book cards on my Macs, now that I've migrated to iCloud? I can edit/delete if I go to iCloud, but the changes don't sync with my Macs. What's happening, and what's a solution? Just wait for Apple to fix a bug?

On your mac, if your look at the left panel of the Address Book, you'll find general categories of "iCloud" and possibly "On my mac" - if you have contacts in the latter, then they are only local to your mac, they are not shared with iCloud. If you don't have an "iCloud" category, then your mac(s) is not set up of iCloud. Go to system preferences and look in iCloud. Is the mac signed into iCloud, are contacts turned on for syncing?

TS2755 Is there a fix to deleting already deleted address book contact, from messages search? i.e. when you type in say letter c in messages search, all contact with a c, past already deleted and current all appear? How do you make the old deleted ones a

Is there a fix to deleting already deleted address book contact, from messages search? i.e. when you type in say letter c in messages search, all contact with a c, past already deleted and current all appear? How do you make the old deleted ones appear?

only way is to restore the phone as new. OR wait until IOS 7 comes out in the fall.

HT5544 How can I delete a book entirely? I don't even want it listed in Purchased Books anymore.

How can I delete a book entirely? I don't even want it listed in Purchased Books collection, but it won't allow me to actually Delete it. I can select it for deletion but when I press Delete nothing happens. It deletes off iTunes on my computer with no problem. All the articles I've found just say it will stay in Purchased in case I want to download it again, but I won't so I want it gone completely.

You can delete it from the bookshelf on your device via the Edit button at the top of the bookshelf.
You can't permanently delete any item from your purchase history, all you can do is hide them via your computer's iTunes so that they don't show for redownloading : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4919

Deleted Address Book - HELP!

I accidentally deleted Address Book. I was moving it to my Dock and missed, so it went to the desktop, then I put it on the dock and deleted it from my desktop. Aparently, that was the program and not a duplicate. Is there any way I can download it or pull it off one of the installation CDs?

You should be able to load it from your installation DVD as one of the optional installations.
AK

Delete Address Book entries

I've been trying to find out, whether with Automator or AppleScript, how to delete specific contacts from Address Book and am not having any luck. My ultimate goal is to back up 10 specific vCards and then delete them. I've gotten Automator to export the vCards of 10 people, but that's where I get stuck. Automator doesn't seem to have any actions that delete cards. I've tried Google for AppleScript on deleting Address Book cards but I really can't find anything. I can't even find a list of what actions I can use with AppleScript on Address Book. Any help would be appreciated.

Anybody?

How can I recover my accidentaly deleted address book?

I was working in my address book this morning and selected a contact that I wanted to delete. When I pressed the delete button, all of a sudden my entire address book dissapeared. I'm fairly sure I only selected the specific contact, but apparently somehow my entire address book got deleted with it.
I can still see the two default address books of thunderbird on the left side, but they always have been and still are empty. The third address book (the one that I've been using the past years), is completely gone.
I have tried to recover the address book in multiple ways:
- looked in the recycle bin of my computer and of thunderbird, but there was nothing to be found in both of them
- I used the 'undo' button about 4 to 5 times, but nothing happened unfortunately. Ctrl+z didn't give any response as well
- I waited with closing thunderbird, untiI I looked up my Thunderbird profile in user/appdata/roaming/thunderbird/profiles/****.defaul. I copied the abook.mab file to another directory, closed thunderbird and restarted it. Unfortunately this didn't help either.
- I've also tried to recover any deleted files on my entire computer using Recuva software. I haven't been able to find anything related to the address book thought.
Is there any way to retrieve/recover my thunderbird address book?
I haven't been able to find a good solution online as of yet. But I figure it can't just be completely gone after I've clicked teh delete button by accident, right?
I'm using thunderbird 24.4.0 on Windows 8.1. Currently I am not using a tool to synchronise the address book to my google account, because I'm working with the maillinglist and I haven't found a way to synchronise them fully. So there's no recent backup of the address book unfortunately.
I really hope you can help me with this. Thanks in advance!

Thanks a lot for your fast reply!
I've tried both options you gave, but unfortunately didn't manage to restore/retrieve any data from the file. The MoreFunctionsForAddressBook add on is very user friendly however and easy to work with.
I also found a few threads that explain that it is possibe to open the original abook.mab file in a text editor and delete some entries in it, to 'turn back' the command that said to delete the addressbook in the first place.
This is the one I've found and tried to follow: http://www.pirules.org/blog/?page_id=312 and
I've played around with it a bit, and managed to retrieve the specific address I was meaning to delete at the time the whole addressbook got accidentaly deleted. I didn't manage to retrieve the full addressbook though, mostly because I have a hard time understanding the code language that is used in the file....
Could this be an option for me? And if so, how do I determine which entry to delete from the file and which one to leave alone?

Where do my deleted Address Book contacts go??

I'm on an exchange server running snow leopard.
I cannot find where the address book app is putting the deleted contacts and folders....
Does anyone know?
I've checked the two logical places, mail trash and the main trash.... no luck.

There are a couple of options.
For the whole computer, you can set up an [Open Firmware password|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352]. Follow the same instructions as 10.5. Search for more info on Open Firmware password and what recourses you have if you forget the password.
You can secure your entire home folder using FileVault (Security System Prefs), but that comes with a few headaches. I don't use it, so I can't offer any advice. It will encrypt you Home folder when you log out so nobody can get to your data without the password, even if the computer is stolen. Time Machine waits until you log out to back up your home folder. This would never work for me.
Also on the Security System Prefs is an option to require a password at wake from Sleep or Screen Saver.
You can set your keychain password different for your account so that it doesn't automatically unlock at login. You can also set the keychain to lock after a period of inactivity using the Keychain Access program--Edit>Change settings for Keychain "login"…
While someone can change your login password using the install disk, that won't change your keychain password, so that info will remain locked.
In the Keychain Access Preferences, you can show the status in the menu bar. From that menu you can Lock the Screen, Your keychain, or all keychains.

Deleted Address Book contents accidently. Now 'Previous Recipients' grayed

Hello all,
I accidentally deleted all of the contents of the Address Book with a misplaced Select All/Delete. It still works fine. It's just empty.
Now, from the Mail/Window/'Previous Recipients' window, each of the emails shows the little address book card on the far left side of the window (it think each email is in the address book). Thus, each email, when selected, grays out the 'Add to Address Book' button.
However, each brand new email that I send shows up in the 'Previous Recipients' list without the little card to the left of the name and it's 'Add to Address Book' button works fine.
How do I reset the entire list of the 'Previous Recipients' back to as if they were brand new so I can add them to the Address Book again.
Thanks
Message was edited by: steve061768
Message was edited by: steve061768

Hi Steve, and a warm welcome to the forums!
If I understand correctly...
In Mail>Window>Address Panel, Sect All, right click>Exort vCads, then in Address Book>File>Imort>vCards, select that file you just exported.

Delete address book

I accidently sync'd 8000 work contacts with my iphone. I don't want 8000 contacts on my iphone. How do I start over? Deleting the Address Book Cards one-by-one on my iMac is driving me insane. Any way to delete the entire Address Book dbase?
Or can someone take me thru a Time Machine restore of just the Address Book from a couple days ago?
iMac running latest version of Lion
Iphone 4s
Thanks!

The entire address book database is located in your invisible (use the free TinkerTool)
I don't quite know what will happen if any of these files were deleted or removed from the folder, likely addressbook would recreate the data files with no entires.
test with care, if it doesn't work then replace them
I wouldn't leave invisble items visible, use Tinkertool to set all those files invisible again.
http://bresink.de/osx/0TinkerTool/download.php5
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

How To Reinstall Deleted Address Book App?

I foolishly deleted the Address Book application after updating to 10.9, and I want it back.
The solutions I've found all involve reinstalling the OS from an install disc, which is not an option for Macbook Airs like mine.
I redownloaded the 10.8 install image, but it gives me this error on open: "OS X 10.8 cannot be installed on this computer."
Help me, Obi Wan. You're my only hope.

@mende1, donktar only wants to get a deleted app back, reverting the entire OS is overkill don't you think!?
'Address book', are you sure it wasn't called 'Contacts'? Why are you attempting to install it from 10.8? It exists in 10.9 but is called Contacts. Address book had a name change in 10.7 or 10.8 IIRC.
You should be able to install 10.9 'in place' so it restores the default apps. Just make sure you don't erase the HD once running from the installer.
Another option is to use Pacifist to extract it from the installer packages - http://charlessoft.com. I'm not sure if anyone has located which package it is stored inside for 10.9, but if you are willing to do some exploring it will be somewhere inside "Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg"
Use the Finders right click Menu > Show package contents… to find & open the InstallESD.dmg and then start
looking at the packages in Pacifist. You can extract the contents to restore the apps, I don't recommend restoring older versions of apps to newer OS's.

Unable to delete Address Book File

I am unable to delete nor copy over an Address Book file that I have on an external HD connected via Airport Extreme. When I connect the HD directly to my Macbook Pro, I am able to delete the file - but not via Airport Extreme. When I attempt to delete the file, I get a message from Trash as follows: The operation cannot be completed because the item "Metadata" is in use. Same message when I attempt to replace the file with a new file. In other words, I am unable to use AE to transfer my Address Book file to my external HD, unless I change the name of the file. What is going on here?

Hello Bob.
You may be having a problem with some Firefox add-on that is hindering your Firefox's normal behavior. Have you tried disabling all add-ons (just to check), to see if Firefox goes back to normal?
Whenever you have a problem with Firefox, whatever it is, you should make sure it's not coming from one of your installed add-ons, be it an extension, a theme or a plugin. To do that easily and cleanly, run Firefox in [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode safe mode] and select ''Disable all add-ons''. If the problem disappears, you know it's from an add-on. Disable them all in normal mode, and enable them one at a time until you find the source of the problem. See [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes this article] for information about troubleshooting extensions and theme. You can troubleshoot plugins the same way.
If you want support for one of your add-ons, you'll need to contact its author.

Deleting Address Book URL list

How can I delete the URL lists that come up when I begin to type in the address book window?

You're welcome.
I was hoping there is a way to delete that info w/o clearing everything else.
Unfortunately not. I suggest sending feedback to Apple via the Safari Menu>Report Bugs to Apple. Always good to make one's needs known.

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