HT2486 adding multiple names to a new group in address book

I have a list of 125 names that I would like to put in my address book under a new group, but I don't want to have to enter each name individually. How do I do that?

Just drag the contact to the new group name.
Edit: Make sure it's a group and not a "smart group". Smart Groups are populated by search criteria.

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Cant sync NEW group in Address Book to Itunes

So here is my delema. I got a new Iphone (From BB), and instead of typing with my thumbs to insert all my old contacts, i opened address book on my macbook pro running Lion and firstly created a new group, then started adding and creating new contacts within that new group. Once finished, i opened Itunes and it does not recognize the new group and i can not sync my new entries to my phone. Even tho when i check all contacts in Address book it shows my new entries, its almost like they don't exist. Also if i check import ALL contacts in Itunes it also does not import the new entries. Like i said, in theory they are in Address book, but not recognizable???
Very frustraing. Any suggestions.

Oh flip what did i do.
So i followed the instructions from that link. I re did my address book. That did not seem to work. So i reset my sync folder by copying and pasting the recomended path into the moniter. now when i go to itunes and try and sync my contacts absolutly nothing goes onto my phone.
I am so frustrated and now a little worried.
Sound familiar at all???

New group in Address book is not imported

Made a new group, pulled two contacts to it;
group is after twice syncs not imported.
(One of the contacts is imported from mail as a vcard…)
Is there a error seen?
____ k.

Seen. The new group was not checked for sync in iTunes, Info-Tab.
~k

Add receipients of message as group in address book

ok, this seems simple, but once again, Mac disagrees and makes it impossibly complicated. I typed in about 15 email addresses for a mass mailing I did in Mail recently, and I want to save these people as a group. I'll send emails to them all again in the future. here are the problems I've encountered:
1. when I select all the addresses in the "sent" message header, and then select "add to address book," it only adds one of the addresses. ridiculous.
2. even if I was to add them individually, I would then need to manually create a new group in address book, and then add each address one by one. again, ridiculous.
3. one suggestion on here was to export my entire address book, then delete all entries, add the ones from the message, save them as a group, then re-import the original addresses. again, and again, ridiculous.
why is this so difficult? am I missing something?

figured it out. when in doubt, drag.
highlight the entries you want to save, open address book, create a new group name, and drag the entries from mail and drop them on the group. done.

How to create a group in address book from a mail folder

I have a mailbox folder in mail with about 100 emails. I want to add all of these email addresses to a new group in address book app. How can I add all of theses at one time to a new group. I dont want to add each email address one at a time. Is there a way to select all of my mail and just make a new group from that?

One of Andreas Amann's Mailscripts will do the address harvesting - I don't know if it puts them in a group.
AK

HT2486 i created a group in address book and when wanted to use it it does not allow me to use it in email how do use a group name i created?

I created a group in address book and wanted to use it, it does not allow me to use it in email how do I use a group name i created?

How many in the group? Some ISP's have a restriction on that. Check with your ISP.

Adding email addresses to SPECIFIC groups in Address book

Hi
I have created a folder in MAIL which receives specific mails. I want to add all these senders to a SPECIFIC group in my address book. The only option I see will add all these senders to my general address book and that's no good since I want to be able to contact this specific group only.
Is that possible and how ?
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There is a collection of AppleScripts called Mail Scripts you can download at this link.
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
The script you want to use from the collection of included scripts is Add Addresses (Mail) which adds addresses found in the selected messages (in the header fields "From", "To", "Cc", and "Bcc") to the Address Book. This is much more flexible than the "Add Sender to Address Book" available in Mail and provides a convenient way for creating mailing lists.
* Select all messages you want to use for creating the mailing list (for creating a mailing list, you would choose all messages in a mailbox which contains all messages on a certain topic).
* Run the script and you get a list with all addresses contained in the selected messages - mark all the addresses you want to add to the Address Book using the checkboxes.
* From the popup menu, choose which group you want to update with the selected addresses or select "Create new Group..." and enter the name for the new group to be created.
* The script checks whether an address is already present before adding it to the Address Book in order to avoid duplicate entries. If additional information is available for an entry already present in the Address Book (e.g., full name information for an entry which had prior been email-only), the entry will be updated.

How can I add multiple addresses to a group within address book?

I realize you can add in addresses by going to 'Message' then 'add Sender to Address Book,' but what I'm interested in doing is within Apple Mail, adding multiple addresses into a specific group within address book. I've tried to do this using mail scripts but keep getting an error.
Is it possible to do this?
Thanks.
David

So far, FWIW all I've got is individual AddToAddressBook, then in AB itself, drag and drop one by one from the main list into the desired group.

I added a group to Address Book, but it doesn't show up in Mail addresses. Why?

I added a group to Address Book, but it doesn't show up in Mail's addresses. Why? In the past, any groups I added to Address Book or changes I made in Address Book showed up in Mail's addresses, but not this time.

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Adding contacts to group in address book

Arghhh - I searched for Address Book in this support site and they said no matching entries!!!
So before I "upgraded" to Lion, I could drag a whole bunch of emails into a group in Address Book. It now will not let me do that! (I hate Lion!)
Does anyone have a work-around for this? I sent an email to 50 people and I want to create a group from these emails without importing them one by one and then manually adding each one to a group..
There must be a way to do this! (And of course "Help" for address book has nothing about this.)
Thanks,
Marty

What is your existing method for adding these contacts? If you are for example selecting a sender's email address in Mail and using "Add to Address Book" then you can't hook in to that process. If on the other hand you are working directly in Address book, adding a card and then fill it in, you could replace that with a script that would prompt for the necessary details, including group (with default Work Phone). You could even put a pretty front end on it with XCode.
Alternatively you could periodically run a script to periodically trawl for contacts with no assigned group and move them to a default group for analysis. I posted one here recently.
AK

HT2486 Can't delete a group in address book and import is greyed out.

I cannot delete a group from address book and when I choose file>import, import is greyed out and not accessible? Any thoughts?

I have the same question. Such a simple action! APPLE help!!!
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HT2486 Create group in address book directly from an email addresses

I wrote an email with many, many! email addresses, im now trying to now take all of those addresses and directly from that create a group in address book. Can I do this? Im trying to avoid doing it one by one from the general address book...
How can i do that in order to avoid missing anyone? This message has all emails i need... Help!
Ive tried to save in .csv but for some reason it won't let me import! What is happening??

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How do I isolate a group in address book - or other solution

History: I used my MAC to print Christmas card envelopes and wanted them to be addressed as "The Smith Family" but I do not want the original contact card to read that way. I set up a new "group" that was my Christmas card list and copied all the addresses over but, when I change the name it changes it in all groups.
Is there any way to isolate a group within address book so I can keep a different name on the same card?
If not, is there a field or way that I can print a different name than what is on the v-card? Another annoyance is that I used the "children" field but, when I printed an envelope it added them tot he end in a senseless fashion. I had to move all "family" information to the general comments.
Thanks in advance.

There is only one set of data for each contact. A group is, effectively, a list of contacts, rather than a copy of a set of contact data. When you change a contact's details in a group you are making the change in the only copy of the contact's data.
One suggestion for address labels recently was to put eg The Smith Family in the company field, and at Christmas time run quickly through the cards marking the company flag - this could be easily automated in Applescript.
Even though it goes against the grain to have multiple copies of information, I keep the details for Christmas cards in a separate Excel spreadsheet. Address Book I use for email addresses and phone numbers.
AK

BACKUP only ONE group from address book

One of my groups was accidently deleted from address book (I guess, anyway it is gone). I have a backup but I only want to restore that ONE group in the book. When I click on the backup file it says it will completely overwrite my address book. I don't want to do that.
How can I retrieve just the one group (which has about 150 addresses in it)? I do not know which of the names in my ALL list should be in this group.

The Address Book filing structure is similar to the filing structure used by iTunes.
You can't place a song in a new or existing playlist group without the song being added to the primary iTunes database first and the same with Address Book contacts.
As you know, deleting a contact from a Group or deleting the entire Group does not remove the Group contacts from the primary Address Book database.
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Any ideas why one address from a group in address book is left off emails all others show in address bar of mail?

I have a group in address book and when I either type first few letters of the groups name into a email form or open a new email form by right clicking on the group name in address book and choosing open new mail one of the addresses, always the same one, is always left off. I have checked the addresses and they are correct and when I use edit distribution list from address book the entry is shown in bold, which I believe shows its included. The address was added after the original list was made by dragging the address into the group, any ideas what I've done wrong please?
on both macbook and imac

Welcome to the Apple Community.
It sounds as though you may have exceeded some of the limits of Address Book in iCloud.
Total number of contact cards: 25,000
Maximum size of a contact card: 256 KBMaximum size of a contact photo: 224 KB
Maximum size of a contact group: 256 KB
Maximum size of all contact cards:
Card text: 24 MB
Card photos: 100 MB
Supported file types for a contact photo: JPEG, JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF

HT2486 adding multiple names to a new group in address book

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