Delete or reset address book?

I changed jobs, got a new phone, and need to delete everything from my address book so I can hand it off to my wife. How do I do this?

Follow the instructions below, ignoring the calendar information.
If you wish to delete the entire Calendar (or Address Book) database on your BlackBerry, follow the directions below. Make certain you have a good copy of your Calendar or Contacts elsewhere, as this procedure will complete delete ALL Calendar entries and/or Address Book entries on your BlackBerry.
1. Open Desktop Manager on your PC.
2. Open up Backup/Restore > Advanced.
3. From Advanced you'll see a split pane screen. The left pane is what is going to be backed up from your device and the right is a list of the currently existing databases.
3. Highlight on that left side the Address Book Database, and click CLEAR.
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I found similar issues but the solutions offered do not seem to work for me. I have now got 4 copies of implab.mab in my profile folder (suffixes -1, -2, -3). I've tried deleting the extra 3 with explorer but they reappear. I've tried renaming them as suggested elsewhere but then the renamed and original both appear. Deleting them from the address book pane in the Write option has no effect.
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Confirm these are address books you have deleted from the 'Address Book', so they no longer display in 'Address Book'.
I'm not talking about empty address books which are still displaying - they must have been deleted.
In 'Address Book'
select the address book
Edit > Delete address book
note you cannot delete any default address books :
'Personal Address Book' and 'Collected Addresses'.
You cannot delete/remove old deleted address book entries via 'Config Editor'.
You can access the 'prefs.js' file located in your Profile folders and open that file using 'Notepad', then edit the file and save and close.
However, you must have exited/closed Thunderbird first in order to do this, otherwise editing the file will have no effect.
I would also advise you create a copy of the prefs.js file before you make any changes and save to desktop to act as a backup - just in case of error.
In your 'prefs.js' file
Each live- not deleted address book shown in the 'Address Book' will have:
'Description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position'
eg:
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.testimpab.description", "Test Impab");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.testimpab.dirType", 2);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.testimpab.filename", "abook-1.mab");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.testimpab.position", 1);
Any address book you imported/created and subsequently deleted from the 'Address Book' will only leave the 'position' line in prefs.js.
There will be no other lines associated with that address book.
eg:
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.TEST_1.position", 6);
This is the line you can delete - make sure TB is closed first.
Note: Do not delete anything that says 'pab' or 'history' - these are the default address books.
After editing the 'pref.js file, save the file and then close it.
Then restart Thunderbird.

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Yes if you have been backing up using Time Machine it should be pretty simple. If you haven't been backing up then they're gone.

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Hi there I have searched and can't find the correct answer...
To two Questions:
1. Deleteing Contact in Address Book
I have created a new contact in Address Book (Lion) and can't delete it.
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The Delete in Address Book is unhighlighted
Anyone have any Ideas
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I have figured out the answer to nos 1
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hold the option key down on the Go menu (you will see Library)
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I did think about making a copy of AB and then deleting the prefixes, but even that seems difficult as (so far) the only way I can make that work is my deleting each prefix, individually. I have a thousand contacts and that seems awfully laborious. Finally, I'm not even sure how I could merge that into iPhone without screwing up my original Address Book. I can only imagine the **** I would create if I lost all my prefixes.
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Maybe you have solved this problem by now. I am having an issue importing contacts into the handsfree phonebook on my car. All the entries with a prefix are arranged together by the prefix and not the surname. The only workaround I have come up with is to erase the the information in the prefix field and place the prefix information in the First Name field (copy>paste>delete). Not ideal but at least everything is arranged by surname in my car which is what I need. Very clumsy for voice activated calls but at least I can find entries in my car phone book now and re-creating my address labels was straightforward.

Delete fields in Address Book view

I imported my Outlook contacts into AB via .txt file. Now all of the address cards that I have just imported have bithdays and anniversaries with the same date. These fields do not appear on my template in preferences. Is there a way to delete these 2 fields on all of my cards?
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Hi Rob,
What I meant to post was:
set HitDate to (date "Sunday, November 21, 1999 00:00:00") + 12 * hours
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repeat with thisPerson in people
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end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
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It seems to me to be a bug in Address Book.
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Hi,
I'm using Scripting Bridge to do bulk updates to Address Book.
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If you deleted them and you don't have them backed up. You lost them, you can get them back by entering them again.

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Am I missing something?
Thanks

Hello again:
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