Deleting a Smart Group from Contacts Problem

I upgraded to Mavericks this week, and have run into a problem where I can't delete a SmartGroup from Contacts. I highlight the group, hit the delete key, confirm that I want to delete the group, but nothing happens. There are also a couple of Smart Groups that crash Ad

No joy. I tried this, and then also deleting that file plus AddressBook-v22.abcddb-shm, AddressBook-v22.abcddb-wal, and the various .abcdg files in Metadata. Once I launch AddressBook, all the Smart Groups are back, and new files are populated in Metadata.
What finally "solved" the problem is to go to my previous laptop, delete *all* groups, smart or otherwise, and export the contacts. I copied that export to the new computer, imported it, and so far all seems well. I'll recreate some of the groups, which is a bit of a pain, but at least Contacts seems to not crash now.

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How do you delete a group from Contacts?
Everything I've read says there is supposed to be a delete button, but no such button is there....

DOH!!!
Thank you John.

Delete a smart group -

I have created a smart group that references another smart group. And it doesn't work. If I click on the group nothing happens, and now if I attempt to delete the smart group, I get the spinning color wheel of death. Then I have to force quite Address Book so I can use it again. Since I don't need the smart group anymore, I would like to delete it, but can't.
Does anyone know how to delete the smart group that references another smart group?

I had the same problem and couldn't find a solution. However I have now found this out;
First, close Address Book.app.
Then, go to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata. In this file there is a file for each Contact, Group and SmartGroup. The SmartGroups have a file extension of .abcdg. If you locate and double click a file ending with that extension Address Book will open up and highlight that SmartGroup. I'm assuming that the one you want to delete will immediately crash the Address Book. Once you locate it drag this file to Trash.
Now go locate the ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb. This is the database file of your address book, but if you delete only this file or the Metadata folder your address will be rebuilt from the other so we need to remove this file as well, so drag it to Trash.
Open Address Book.
Credit goes to solipsism - http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=91133

Im trying to drag and drop a email group from contacts to a new email message. But it will not let me in OS X Mavericks. Before I upgraded I could do this.

Im trying to drag and drop a email group from contacts to a new email message. But it will not let me in OS X Mavericks. Before I upgraded I could do this.

I just posted this fix to another thread and thought it might be useful to post to all of the threads I read trying to fix the problem. Here it is:
Having the same issue over here with Mavericks 10.9.1 on a new Macbook Pro/Retina. Just now found a workaround/fix/whatever:
- click on your group in the group pane of the address panel
- click anywhere in the name pane and select all (command + a)
- click the "To:" or "Cc:" or "Bcc:" tab right above the group pane at the top of the address panel window.
The names of all of the individuals in the group will appear as an expanded list in whatever field you clicked. It takes a second or two to happen.

Mail filling in groups from Contacts

There is a problem with Mail filling in groups from Contacts in a way which didn't happen to me before Mavericks.
When I now type in the first letter(s), Mail tries to auto complete, but when I have the right group in the "to" bar and press the enter-key the name disappears.
When I type too fast for mail auto complete to keep up (already typed the whole group name) and press enter, nothing happens, the name of the group isn't replaced by the people belonging to that group.. The cursor just keeps blinking berhing the group name.
I take it this is a bug, not by design...
Already filed a bug report at apple.com/feedback

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There is a work around, here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/4902780#4902780
Basically, use Smart Groups on your Mac to create dynamic subsets of your contacts. Copy all of the contacts in that group (command-A) to a [regular / static / dumb] group. You can rename that group to whatever you want (including the same name as the smart group). A bit of a pain, but if the contacts in your smart group don't change that much, you shouldn't have to update your [regular / statis/ dumb] group very often... such as for my "family" group.
Also, you can then "prune" the [regular / static / dumb] group of contacts that your smart group rules included, but shouldn't be in the group, when you update it. I do this monthly for my "travel" group.

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Since updating to OSX Mavericks I can't use the smart groups in Contacts to address emails. This was not a problem previously. How do I get the functionality of smart groups restored?

I discovered this problem this morning after upgarding to Mavericks.
I've found an easy answer: Apple have changed the way it confirms the addition of Groups it seems.
Type the name of the group in the Cc: or Bcc: field, hit the Space bar, then hit Enter. Vavoom!!
Hope this helps.

Smart Group from a selection in Address Book.

In Address Book, is there any way to create a smart group from a selection or an existing group? It seems that a smart group can only be created from "All Contacts". But I don't want to start with "All Contacts" for my smart group, just an existing group. You can do "New Group From Selection", but you can't seem to do "New Smart Group From Selection". Is there any way around this?

You need to go to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Images and Control-click on each file and open it using Preview. Then you can export the image if you choose. Just keep in mind that these will be thumbnail quality, so don't expect large images, either in file size or physical size.

After deleting an email address from Contacts is there any way of preventing it from popping up in the To: field of Mail when one starts to type in a contact name.

After deleting an email address from Contacts is there any way of preventing it from popping up in the To: field of Mail when one starts to type in a contact name?

if you are not on ios 6, then all you can do is wait. if you have deleted the address from your contact list, then it will live on for a while in your 'recently used' addresses. as you use new addresses, those older ones fall down the list, and eventually fall off altogether (unless you use them again). Have patience, it will go away.
Or do the update....

Synching smart groups in contacts

I've just created a lot of smart groups in contacts - very happy with the results with one exception: when I go to my other macs/ IOS devices that use the same iCloud ac/ sign in ... the smart groups aren't there. I'm using Yosemite 10.10.1 and IOS 8.1.2.
Smart folders in Mail work flawlessly. When I create the rules in mail on one mac, they appear in Mail on all my other macs (I have 4 macs in the house). So how do I get my smart groups in contacts to replicate across devices? Do I have to setup and replicate all the rules on each mac manually? ... there must be a simpler way.
Any help or pointers appreciated. Thanks

There is a work around, here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/4902780#4902780
Basically, use Smart Groups on your Mac to create dynamic subsets of your contacts. Copy all of the contacts in that group (command-A) to a [regular / static / dumb] group. You can rename that group to whatever you want (including the same name as the smart group). A bit of a pain, but if the contacts in your smart group don't change that much, you shouldn't have to update your [regular / statis/ dumb] group very often... such as for my "family" group.
Also, you can then "prune" the [regular / static / dumb] group of contacts that your smart group rules included, but shouldn't be in the group, when you update it. I do this monthly for my "travel" group.

Syncing Smart Groups from Address Book

Spent a lot of time creating a smart group in address book, only to find that iphone sync doesn't recognize "Smart Groups", only regular groups. Maybe the engineers can write some script to fix this little bugaboo to have the sync software recognize smart groups from Address Book and place them in the box so that the user can select the smart group and not have to sync the whole address book. Thanks.
tjrmac

Yes. Please. It would be great if the syncing of smart groups were to be added. Right now with the large amount of address' I manage for business, it's important that I see the same groups on my iPhone.
Please add.

Anyone have problem sending to groups from contact menu?

I can see group in contact list ,I have assigned a name,but the mail function does not recognize the group or group name.
Works fine on desktop mail program and in icloud mail application????

gordonfromsan rafael wrote:
I can see group in contact list ,I have assigned a name,but the mail function does not recognize the group or group name.
Works fine on desktop mail program and in icloud mail application????
..... But it does not work that way in the mail app on the iPad. There are third party apps that will let you email to contact groups - but not the built in Mail App.
Look at Group Email in the App Store.

Smart Groups in Contacts OSX 10.8.2 causing Freeze

I am having a problem, similar to a few other threads from the old addressbook, but related to the latest Contacts app.
Previous discussions suggest problems with old smartlists causing crashes, this time it is the new Smart Groups.
This morning, I tried to add a Smart Group using the OSX 10.8.2 Contacts app, but upon hitting OK, the program froze.
Earlier suggested list of steps to remove the offending smartlist begins by exporting the contacts to a separate file. Since, at the moment, the contacts app is unable to load without freezing immediately, the option of exporting the contacts to a file is not available.
Alternate solutions suggested, involve deleting certain group related metadata - but I am unable to locate the files mentioned.
AddressBook-v22.abcddb and the smart group metadata file in ~/Library » Application Support » AddressBook » Metadata
How bout the simple solution of having a program where the Smart Groups simply work? If I create a smart group it should just work! Not result in the freezing of the app! OK now having said that...
Any suggestions for how to Eliminate Smart Groups - ideally without eliminating groups generally! (perhaps using third party apps to clean up the Smart Group mess?).
Thanks

I'll just add that I have one smart group that causes the beachball effect. Can't select or right click it to delete it without the hang happening.
It's my - "contacts that aren't assigned to any other group" group.
Will try to discover how to reset/remove a smart group.

Since migrating to Mavericks Mail is not seeing Smart Groups in Contacts

Since migrating to Mavericks, when I try to send an email to a list of people in a Contacts Smart Group, mail doesnt find the group and I am having to put the recipients in one by one

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Is your Mail extremely slow trying to send to a "group" from Contacts?

I can't believe how long this is taking to just add a couple groups from my Contacts into the To: area of a message in Mail. I've never had this problem with my older 10.6.8 OS. There are about 150 addresses in one group and less than 10 in another, yet, once I type in the group name, everything slows down to a snails pace in Mail and I can't type one letter without having the beachball of death start spinning. This is ridiculous! Is anyone else having these kinds of problems? Generally Mail in Mavericks has been working well for me - the amount of spam has decreased tremendously, but this new issue is a big problem!
Thanks for any insight,
kt

I am climbing the walls with this.
I have to type the text of the mail, then insert the group.
Forgot about changing anything later or adding a second group.
It takes several minutes to change one character.
Activity Monitorshows "Mail (Not Responding)", CPU running 99.9%
Crazy.

Deleting a Smart Group from Contacts Problem

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