HT2486 Address Book Spotlight search reset

How can I reset the Spotlight search for my address book (Search not working)

Try the steps I posted here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3222240
Note that with iCloud (and I guess any other source) there is a Sources folder inside of the AddressBook folder. It has the same indexing databases. At this point, I don't know of you would need to remove those, also. When you throw away the iCloud one, it will take a few moments for the iCloud contacts to reindex.

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"OK Apple", many people asking for help "how to reset the Spotlight Search without having to reset as new or sync", and no response from Apple what so ever. for many years people including me have been asked for the simple help. but the request have been ignored or go direct to the trash bins. The Spotlight Search reset should be person options. this is look like an Apple option. please help

Only if you restore your iPhone as new. (not from backup). Then you have sync/setup your iPhone from the scratch.

Address Book quirky search behavior in Snow Leopard vs. reg. Leopard?

Address Book in 10.5.8 Leopard always allowed quick location of an entry by typing the first few characters of the last name. Gets me the precise name or close to it. AB in Snow L. doesn't do the same. In SL when typing same first 3-4 characters, AB finds a matching first name. Not what I want! Did Apple change that feature, or do I have a problem? I have several machines, some w. 10.5.8, a new one with 10.6.3. Addition of new Snow Leopard also messes up MobileMe sync of Contacts between the different computers (always resetting data on the MBP 10.6.3) The courtesy of your help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,
I'm having exactly the same problem.
The search now works on the last name only if it is displayed before the first name, which was not the behavior before Snow Leopard.
Thank you for your help ...

HT2486 Address book will no longer sort when typing name

Address book will no longer sort names when you begin to type

Have you tried resetting your sort option in Address Book / Preferences? Change it from whatever you have it (e.g. First Name) to the other choice. Then try to Search a contact. If it works, then go back in and reset it to what you had it before.

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My address book display is not like the one shown. Why?

Have you tried resetting your sort option in Address Book / Preferences? Change it from whatever you have it (e.g. First Name) to the other choice. Then try to Search a contact. If it works, then go back in and reset it to what you had it before.

HT2486 Address book glitches.

My Address book is starting to "act up" have problems and glitches. Anyone experince these things and how does one fix or even reload address book to end these crazy, frustrating issues.
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Have you tried resetting your sort option in Address Book / Preferences? Change it from whatever you have it (e.g. First Name) to the other choice. Then try to Search a contact. If it works, then go back in and reset it to what you had it before.

Address Book, Spotlight ERRORS!

Hello members and outside viewers,
These are software related issues, but I think of might be Mac Pro specific. I migrated everything from a G5 some time ago, but these issues occured in the near past.
First: My Address Book behaves very strange.
After startup, the window freezes. Only if I minimize and click again, works OK. I began used to it, BUT
Since yesterday, Addresses gone, disappeared from every entry.
Under Preferences » Address Format is uneditable, it has "Item3" in it, unclickable drop down menu.
Under Preferences »Template » Add Field several options are grey: "Phone", "Email", "Related Names", "Instant Messaging", "Address".
Please can you help me! I deleted both plist files from Preferences folder and deleted the whole folder under Application Support/AddressBook, also reinstalled Address Book from Leopard DVD, but nothing helped so far.
Second thing: when I invoke Spotlight, and start typing after 2-3 seconds, it quits and also Dock unusable, restarts automatically. Spotlight is useless, it behaves every time like this. Spotlight in Finder windows are OK, system-wide menubar has this error. Also, it was suddenly gone wrong like Address Book. Can I think of some virus?
P.S. (off topic), might helpful to share: very frustating, that registering to Discussions took me over an hour.
With Safari 4.03 the "Name" and "AppleID" are blank fields on "Create New User Account", therefore impossible to proceed. ( Error: invalid AppleID. Please login with a different AppleID )
With Firefox you can actually see them, but "?" instead of accounted letters.
After changing My Info, I finally realised that Apple ID should be complete e-mail address.
That means my "visionfresh" account is totally different from "[email protected]" (or me.com, whatever..)
Not to mention that I created a new Apple ID, that was also not working.
Bottom line: my "[email protected]" account is working also in Safari after editing my Name (replace accented characters), but I could not proceed with the nickname "visionfresh", I chose "matyashuszar".

{quote:title=Console.App shows this when starting Address Book}
2009.09.03. 18:45:48 Mail[228] SyncServices[ISyncSessionDriver]: Caught top level exception: I/O error for database at /Users/matyashuszar/Library/Mail/AvailableFeeds. SQLite error code:1, 'SQL logic error or missing database' Stack trace: (0x91ffcfeb 0x966c4e3b 0x92071f1a 0x920713f8 0x9206d18b 0x920a2e40 0x92097c2d 0x920977da 0x92077001 0x38767c 0x38758d 0x38751a 0x92061302 0x920a7260 0x920a6ad4 0x920a67ff 0x920633c8 0x92062f99 0x92061ea0 0x387303 0x38748e 0x1627da55 0x94ddd1e8 0x94dc923d 0x94e632cb 0x904d1dfd 0x904d19a4 0x95d56155 0x95d56012)
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] -[ABAddressBook setDefaultCountryCode:] called with unknown country code 'us'
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] NSScanner: nil string argument
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
{quote}
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Address Book wildcard searching LDAP

With Address Book under Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.5 (Leopard) it was possible to do a wildcard search of an LDAP server for contacts. You did this by typing *. or ** in the search box in the top right.
Unfortunately, this no longer seems to work in Address Book in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
Does anyone know of an alternative way of doing this?

Do you use iCloud? If so, try going to the System Preferences then iCloud and unchecking Contacts. It will warn you about deleting the contacts from your Mac. If you know your other devices on iCloud have the correct contacts(or icloud.com) then this should be completely safe. Once you've okayed them to be removed, immediately recheck contacts.
Please let me know if this works. Thanks!
Autumn

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We use Address Book to move BlackBerry contacts around when upgrading or resetting user's BBs.
This requires trashing the Address Book contents each time, which is ok cos we use Entourage anyway.
However, I thought it would be a case of removing the com.apple.addressbook* files in ~/Library/Prefs, but this didn't work, so I removed the ~/Application Support/Address Book folder and then Address Book wouldn't work at all!! The application icon bounces in Dock then disappears. Now, no matter what I do I cannot get it to work.
Any help to the following would be greatly appreciated:
What files does it need?
How can I get it working again?
What does removing the files/folder i did cause such trauma?
What have Apple broken?!
Cheers
C

Was a permissions problem on file in Application Support/Address Book folder.

HT2486 Address book data loss / iMac 10.5.8 / despite backing up on a NAS all data lost, including in the backup. How can I retrieve it? Thanks

Help! All my address book data disappeared from one day to the next. I entered my NAS back-up but all the address books going back in time are empty.
Then I got clever and thought I would sync my contacts from my iPhone 4 to my iMac. Brilliant idea - now all my iPhone contacts are gone as well except for 14 address that must have been input after my last sync with iTunes.
Can anyone help my find my lost data?
Thanks
Paul
P.S. all help appreciated, especially in simple English as I am not a techi!

Paul, get one of these...
Find Any File...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30079/find-any-file
I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/
Search your whole drive for...
AddressBook.data
Do we find a bigger one?

Address book not searching

I am having a problem with Address Book search not working except within Groups. how can I solve this?

Do you use iCloud? If so, try going to the System Preferences then iCloud and unchecking Contacts. It will warn you about deleting the contacts from your Mac. If you know your other devices on iCloud have the correct contacts(or icloud.com) then this should be completely safe. Once you've okayed them to be removed, immediately recheck contacts.
Please let me know if this works. Thanks!
Autumn

Address book frozen; search function lost

I am running Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3 on a Mac Mini. My Adress Book stopped allowing me to use the search bar at the top of the screen to search on any data in the address book. I can only scroll down and up on the screen and then double-click on the record I want to view to open it. What happened and how can I fix it?
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Hmmm, reboot to the Restore Partition holding CMD+r at bootup, try using Disk Utility to repair the drive... does it report any errors?

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When I use Search in Address Book the result everytime shows as the bottom item in the resulting list with extraneous items above it. It seems to me that the items below the first result are more pertinent to my search, but they aren't displayed, I have to scroll down to see them. Is there a way to change that so that the top item is my first result and the items below it appear?
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That's an interesting question, so I tried it myself.
I found that all of the cards listed contained the search term, as expected, but the term was not necessarily in the name. So there seems to be no weighting given to the location of the search term (eg Finding it in the Notes could be less important than in the name). I can't disagree with this strategy.
Secondly, the found set of cards are listed in the normal order I'd defined in the preferences 'Sort by' option, again just as expected.
So the question returns as to why the result chooses the particular card it does. And the answer seems to be that the chosen card is the last one with the most matches.
I searched for St, and got many matchiing cards, and the chosen one had 3 occurences. I looked through the list, and there were a few other cards with 3 occurences of the match, but none with 4 occurences. So the chosen card was the last one with the most matches.
I then chose a card without a match and added some notes which had 4 occurences, and the following search for St then picked that card.
So you're actually getting what you have asked for (the last of the best matches). Its just unfortunate that generally the card you want is not the one with most matches.
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Can't find a solution. HELP

Might be corrupted preferences ...
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy / paste the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
Click Go then move the com.apple.AddressBook.plist file to the Trash.
Restart your Mac.

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