Editing Previous Recipients and /importing/ emails

anyone know if i can /edit/ the addresses shown in Previous Recipients and/or how i would import /new/ email addresses to Previous Recipients?
i am finding this a bit hard to figure out. i can apparently sync Previous Recipients to my Address Book but there is there a way to sync Address Book to Previous Recipients so that my AB contacts show up in my Mac Mail and these can autocomplete in Mail?
i mean, i have a database of email addresses and i would like to get these into Mac Mail...and then i want to sync all this up with AB in Lion...
THANKS

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i am having a devil of a time with my contacts.
i have about 10,000 contacts in my CardScan software which resides solely on my desktop machine.
i have personal and important numbers stored in Contacts synced via iCloud to my iPhone, laptop and desktop.
i have Previous Recipients (email addresses that i have responded to) synced manually once in a blue moon by adding this email address to my Contacts from each of my computers (laptop and desktop) and these apparently simply get dumped in Contacts and then i have to manually sort these in Contacts.
this means that;
1. my business contacts are not accessible on my laptop or iphone when i travel.
2. my previous recipients are not on all my devices unless i happen to have manually added them in the Previous Recipients window on /both/ my laptop and on my desktop (this info resides solely on the HD until added to Contacts)
3. email addresses are dumped willy-nilly into Contacts where i have to manually sort them.
anyone have any suggestions on what to research or how to get this more automated?
i am considering uploading all my CardScan contacts to GMail contacts but this is as far as i have gotten with all of this.
TIA for any advice or search terms etc.

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Can you edit an iMovie ('09) after you export it and import it onto another computer? It doesn't appear as if I can edit the themes and transitions and other features.
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HI, I cannot change my Apple ID and Primary Email Address. The "Edit" Link doesn't show up next to it. Only "Your Name" and "Alternate Address" can be edited once I log into "Manage ID". Please help! Thank You!

You can't delete an Apple ID or an iCloud account. Just stop using it and create a new one. If you want to make your ID the same as your new @icloud.com address please see this post:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22283348#22283348
Otherwise create an ID at http://appleid.apple.com using a non-Apple email address and then use the ID to create a new iCloud account. I would personally recommend the second option: if you take the first you must make sure to add a non-Apple contact address because otherwise if there is a problem (such as forgetting your password) Apple can only contact you at an address you can't access.
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I have a junk mail filter that looks for
sender not in address book OR
sender not in previous recipients, then
sends these messages to a Suspect folder.
It works well. However, recently some of the junk mail "From" addresses have begun appearing in my Previous Recipients list, even though I have not responded to any of them and in most cases have not even opened the messages. This seems to happen in bursts, for example, yesterday I got seven of them including one from Allume Systems, even though the originators messages were not read or opened.
I am not familiar with spam technology that allows senders to insert themselves as a Previous Recipient without any action by me. Is this a new problem?

What you’re trying to do doesn’t sound right to me.
Anyway, to answer your question, manually marking a
message as not junk also causes the sender to be
added to the Previous Recipients list.
That may be the problem. When I had a bunch of messages get filtered into the suspect folder, 6 were marked as junk, 1 as not junk. I selected them all, clicked Not Junk and then toggled it back to Junk.
I'll try dealing with them individually, and watch for the symptom to go away. Except for this, the filtering per my rules has been close to 100% reliable.
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Issue with "previous recipients" and "open recent"

Hi,
When I upgraded my MacBook Pro, I had to manually copy my user folder to my new Mac and I think it's causing a problem with file permissions.
The main issues of that, is every time I quit an app, my "open recent" list is emptied (and it's not linked with the new system in 10.6 in the global preferences). And the second, is that no new "previous recipients" are added in Mail.
Has anyone a clue on what I can do?
Thanks.
Laurent

Bump!
Still looking for a solution.
Laurent

I had a iPhone 3G and I change it in to a iPhone 4G 32GB! I have 3 apple ID account. The one I used is edited by host and I know my password but it ask me for my security question and I forgot it! It send a veify email the answer the an email to blu

I had a iPhone 3G and I change it in to a iPhone 4G 32GB! I have 3 apple ID account. The one I used is <edited by host> and I know my password but it ask me for my security question and I forgot it! It send a veify email the answer the an email to <edited by host> and the email <edited by host> that is my other apple ID and the password work on apple but my yahoo account I forgot my password and security question and it won't verify to my email on to my apple email. so it send the answer to <edited by host> and I can't get it! So Can u do something? Both account r also on my iCloud. I can open both apple account but it won't let me buy nothing on my <edited by host> ! On my <edited by host> that one dose let my buy thing but I had lot of thing I bought on <edited by host> I bought lots of movies music and app. I spend lot of money on this account.

It's a really bad idea to post your email addresess - it's an invitation to spam - and I've asked the Hosts to remove them.
This is a user-to-user forum and no-one on here can take any direct action. If your Yahoo address is not working that's something you would need to take up with Yahoo - have you checked it by sending yourself an email to it?
Otherwise you will need to contact Support: go to https://expresslane.apple.com/ and click on 'iTunes' in the center column and then 'iTunes Store' in the right-hand column and proceed from there.

Adding Previous Recipients overwrites existing Contacts in AB/Contacts

i had a couple of problems the last time i went into Mac Mail and tried to add my Previous Recipients to my Address Book/Contacts so that i can use this data to AUTOCOMPLETE emails on my MBP, Mac Pro and my iPhone. right now these databases reside solely on the computer that Mail is installed upon so ostensibly adding them manually to AB/Contacts allows you to sync for Autocomplete.
1. do you have problems with a Previous Recipeint named "John Smith" overwriting a Contact "John Smith" so that now in AB/Contacts you have just an email address instead of the phone number (which i need to make calls)?
2. is there a way to add these Previous Recipients so that they go into a /specific/ group? i have a ton of groups and currently with the switch to iCloud there is apparently no longer a way to SORT BY UNGROUPED which means i have a ton of contacts that only reside in ALL CONTACTS and this makes life very difficult for finding things.
3. do you basically maintain the link of these Previous Recipients by going into Previous Recipients on your various machines from time to time and checking to see what has been added to this list but has not been added to AB/Contacts? and then do you manually add these?
4. is there such a thing as Previous Recipients on my iPhone? i mean, if i reply to a VIP on my iPhone - would i think have to wait until i also replied to his/her email on one of my computers before i had a chance to see that this was a Previous Recipient that had to be added to my contact database?
TIA for any help or link to url's on this.
also a shout out to the mac developer crew. i would love to see a way to see globally how all my contacts are or are not sorted into GROUPS. at the very least it would be great to see the ones not in groups so i can make sure everything can be added to the group.
and finally, i am not a fan of the new UI for Contacts on the iPhone in iOS6. this checkmark business where i have to go through and uncheck All Contacts and then check the individual group(s) i want to see is a major pain from the previous implementation which i don't remember but which i never had a problem with. does anyone know how to manage 20+ groups without contantly clicking on and off things in this UI on the iPhone these days...?

ThanosD wrote:
I am not trying to do this via the address-book. I am in the Previous Recipients dialog of Mail.
that dialog has very limited functionality. as you've found out, if an email is already present in some AB contact it won't let you import it again from the previous Recipients list. and it won't put them in existing contacts. it will always make separate entries. the best you can do is select all (or some) items in previous recipients and click 'add to address book". it will add the addresses that are not already in the AB and ignore the others.
From there, I should be able to add an entry into the address-book using the "Add to Addressbook" button.
Sure, I could take every entry in Previous Recipients, and manually edit the address-book entries, but there are hundreds, and that would take me forever.

Mountain Lion Mail previous recipients question

I have searched to figure out how to do this and I'm sure the answer is somewhere but I can't find it. I have edited a group in my address book and am now trying to send Mail to the edited group but Mail keeps autofilling in the old group. Thankfully I discovered this by expanding the group in my email to make sure the list of recipients was correct. It wasn't. How do I get Mail to forget the recipients of the "old" group and use the newly edited group? Thought that groups might show up in the "previous recipients" list under window>previous recipients and then I could just remove the group and start over but the group name isn't in that list. Hope this makes sense!

Well, thanks so much for the response and your attempt to help! However, when I control click the group and send email that way, it STILL populates with the old group. Ugh! For example, John Doe is in the "old group" but I have edited him and lots of others out of the group and others into the group but he still shows up in the list of recipients and the new guys are missing.
I have worked around this issue by just renaming the group but I'd really like to name it the old name because that is the name that makes sense! I've worked around the problem for now but would still like to know the answer to this issue. The crazy thing is that this happened to me this summer and I fixed it somehow but can't remember how! I thought it was by removing the group from previous recipients list. Perhaps that was the solution but the problem happened before I moved to Mountain Lion when several things changed in Mail.
Thanks again for attempting to help! Good to know the control-click trick straight from Contacts/Address Book--whatever it's now called.

Managing Previous Recipients (doesn't it over-write existing?)

i have also posted this in the Lion forum as i am stuck on lion on the mac pro even though i went ahead and upgraded to ML on the MBP before realizing this.
i had a couple of problems the last time i went into Mac Mail and tried to add my Previous Recipients to my Address Book/Contacts so that i can use this data to AUTOCOMPLETE emails on my MBP, Mac Pro and my iPhone. right now these databases reside solely on the computer that Mail is installed upon so ostensibly adding them manually to AB/Contacts allows you to sync for Autocomplete.
1. do you have problems with a Previous Recipeint named "John Smith" overwriting a Contact "John Smith" so that now in AB/Contacts you have just an email address instead of the phone number (which i need to make calls)?
2. is there a way to add these Previous Recipients so that they go into a /specific/ group? i have a ton of groups and currently with the switch to iCloud there is apparently no longer a way to SORT BY UNGROUPED which means i have a ton of contacts that only reside in ALL CONTACTS and this makes life very difficult for finding things.
3. do you basically maintain the link of these Previous Recipients by going into Previous Recipients on your various machines from time to time and checking to see what has been added to this list but has not been added to AB/Contacts? and then do you manually add these?
4. is there such a thing as Previous Recipients on my iPhone? i mean, if i reply to a VIP on my iPhone - would i think have to wait until i also replied to his/her email on one of my computers before i had a chance to see that this was a Previous Recipient that had to be added to my contact database?
TIA for any help or link to url's on this.
also a shout out to the mac developer crew. i would love to see a way to see globally how all my contacts are or are not sorted into GROUPS. at the very least it would be great to see the ones not in groups so i can make sure everything can be added to the group.
and finally, i am not a fan of the new UI for Contacts on the iPhone in iOS6. this checkmark business where i have to go through and uncheck All Contacts and then check the individual group(s) i want to see is a major pain from the previous implementation which i don't remember but which i never had a problem with. does anyone know how to manage 20+ groups without contantly clicking on and off things in this UI on the iPhone these days...?

hi carolyn. thanks. always good to hear from you.
i think i was not very clear.
the problem i am having is that this information is important for me to have on all my devices. right now it only resides on one (mac pro) and in order to get it to the others i apparently need to manually enter the data into Contacts.
but over the long term there is an issue as to how to maintain this data.
i can get in here by doing Window > Previous Recipients and i can manually transcribe these entries one by one into Contacts and then i can delete them from within this UI. but -
what happens when i continue to use mac mail? ostensibly the entries will get repopulated when i reply to an email (unless i turn it off) and if i turn it off i would have to actually check to see if a new email was coming from a new address that i needed to add to contacts.
is there a creative way to checkmark that the previous recipient has been added to contacts so that i won't have new email addresses from this same entry added when i reply but when i go to add NEW email recipients to Contacts so that i can maintain my contact database i can only add the NEW email addresses that have not been ported to Contacts....?
you know what i mean?

Managing Mail PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS?

i have a MBP (ML) a Mac Pro (Lion) and an iPhone.
i want to get my Mail > Window > PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS into Mac Contacts ("Address Book" in Lion) so that i can send emails from all these devices to people that are already in this database which appears to be isolated on each computer and which does not appear to exist on an iPhone when you reply to an email from there (curious if that is correct).
anyway, i am trying to add these Previous Recipients and i am about 2/3 the way through on the MBP and it appears to me that the only way to do this is to ADD all the contacts you want to the CONTACTS application and to then SORT them in the Contacts Application. for instance, if i have my brother's mailing address in Contacts and i add the EMAIL address for him i then have two Contacts for my brother and i have to manually go in and copy the email address, paste it into the original contact for him and then delete the "added" contact. i could do this by printing out all my Previous Recipients but at least THIS WAY WHEN I SEE HIS NAME IN THE PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS AT LEAST I KNOW HE HAS BEEN ADDED.
Also, from what i can tell there is no way to ADD the Previous Recipient to a GROUP so you have to create a Smart Group in Mountain Lion Contacts Application that shows all "Contacts not in Group" so that you can then assign each of the Contacts you added to a Group (a Smart Group for this does not work in Lion).
ANYWAY - assuming i do this - i believe that i am seeing that the PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS on my MAC PRO don't know that they have been added to the Contacts database is that correct? or is this just an unfortunate consequence of the fact that my Mac Pro cannot upgrade to Mountain Lion? I mean, i have a ton of Previous Recipients in this database (way more than on my MBP) but i would hate to have to add and then sort alll my Previous Recipients again if they have already been added on the MBP. you follow?
is there something that i am not understanding or is there some method to smash these two databases together or export them or something a little less tedious than this dump and sort method that i describe?
TIA
managing Mail PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS?

hi carolyn. thanks. always good to hear from you.
i think i was not very clear.
the problem i am having is that this information is important for me to have on all my devices. right now it only resides on one (mac pro) and in order to get it to the others i apparently need to manually enter the data into Contacts.
but over the long term there is an issue as to how to maintain this data.
i can get in here by doing Window > Previous Recipients and i can manually transcribe these entries one by one into Contacts and then i can delete them from within this UI. but -
what happens when i continue to use mac mail? ostensibly the entries will get repopulated when i reply to an email (unless i turn it off) and if i turn it off i would have to actually check to see if a new email was coming from a new address that i needed to add to contacts.
is there a creative way to checkmark that the previous recipient has been added to contacts so that i won't have new email addresses from this same entry added when i reply but when i go to add NEW email recipients to Contacts so that i can maintain my contact database i can only add the NEW email addresses that have not been ported to Contacts....?
you know what i mean?

I accidentally uninstalled firefox and thunderbird whilst cleaning. can i reinstall or recover my hotmail and gmail emails?

I accidentally uninstalled both firefox and thunderbird during a clean up. I am now trying to reciver my previous hotmail and gmail emails. Having used Outlook and re set my email accounts it has synched and 'pulled' up emails from gmail back to August and Hotmail back a month.
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Getting rid of Previous Recipients in Mail

On my Mac Mini, running OSX 10.6.8, and Mail v.4.6, I want to get rid of many or all the email addresses in Previous Recipients, because some of them were incorrectly entered by me directly, or I had a typo or old email address in my Address Book and/or the Previous Recipients list. Some of those incorrectly addressed emails just bounced back to me, while others simply vanished into the internet abyss, never to be seen again. They may have inadvertently gone to someone they weren't meant for, and they now likely have my email address. Oh the unfortunate result of addressing errors.
So, to remove the ones I knew/know are typos, or I know they were old or never to be used again addresses, I went to Mail>Window>Previous Recipients and deleted some of them. Very quickly though, I decided to stop and ask this question before deleting anymore: For the people, businesses, etc., I do email and want to keep in my Address Book, is it safe to delete them from Previous Recipients, or will doing so remove them from my Address Book too?
These are the ones with a roll-a-dex like card to the far left side of the names.

Never mind. All is well. I tested it myself by removing a name and email address, one I knew by memory, from the list with one of the cards to the left side and discovered this did not remove it from my Address Book.

Previous Recipients

In Mail I can go to Window -> Previous Recipients and see a list of everyone I've ever sent an email to. From this list I can add them to my address book.
I would like to locate the file where this information is kept. My goal is to dump it out into another filtering system, but I can't seem to locate it. I realize that I could add all of the items to my address book and then use a third party program to dump it out, but I'd like to try to just open the file directly.
Does anyone know where the file that stores these addresses is? I thought it might generate the list dynamically from the cached mailboxes, but it comes up way to fast for that. Also it allows you to remove items from the list, so I'm guessing it is in a file somewhere.
Thanks!

I believe the list of Previous Recipients in Mail is stored in the primary Address Book database file located at Home > Library > Application Support > AddressBook > AddressBook.data.
Before manipulating this or any other file within the AddressBook folder, be sure to create a backup of your Address Book data beforehand.

Previous Recipients (Mail) BROKEN!!

When I send an email in Mail.app, the email addresses that I'm sending to don't populate in the "Previous Recipients" list under Window > Previous Recipients, and so they never autocomplete when I try to send another email to these same addresses.
Also, when I highlight addresses in the Previous Recipients list and click "Add to Address Book", they aren't added to the Address Book.
I ran Disk Utility; the disk Verified, and I even repaired Disk Permissions, for what it's worth: still nothing.
If anyone has any ideas about what could be causing this, I'd be very grateful!!!
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Thanks again Ernie for your help.
The date modified for both files is Today (though I haven't modified them, beyond opening the program).
If I close Address Book, remove the files, and restart Address Book, it creates new .plist files but the grayed-out problem remains. This seems to be a problem for others as well, though I haven't found a solution yet . . .
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1300427
I wonder if this has to do with the December Mail update to 10.5.6 that was a problem for some people.
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mail_Update
If I download that update and run it, it says I don't need it though.

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