HT2486 No edit button on address book card

There is no edit button & EDIT>EDIT CARD is grayed out. How do I edit a card?

I had that problem.
The solution was to rebuild the Address Book's database file.
To do that in Lion -
• Quit Address Book if it is running.
• While in Finder, press and hold the Option key and open the Go menu (main menubar). A new item, "Library", will be shown. Select it. This will open the hidden Libtaty folder in the user home folder.
• In the Library folder, locate and open the Application Support folder.
• In that folder, locate and open the Address Book folder.
In the Address Book folder, locate the file named AddressBook-v22.abcddb and drag it into the Trash.
• Restart Address Book (occasionaly it may be necessary to restart the machine).

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On your mac, if your look at the left panel of the Address Book, you'll find general categories of "iCloud" and possibly "On my mac" - if you have contacts in the latter, then they are only local to your mac, they are not shared with iCloud. If you don't have an "iCloud" category, then your mac(s) is not set up of iCloud. Go to system preferences and look in iCloud. Is the mac signed into iCloud, are contacts turned on for syncing?

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Hi all,
I've got an envelope that I use every once in a while. It has a logo and return address. For the recipient address, I just go to address book, change the information in the group that I call "current envelope" then I go to pages, merge and print.
However, last time I went to do this, it added the address that I wanted from the group, plus 3 other addresses (i don't know where they came from.) When I try to merge again with the address book to refresh the data, the Merge Address Book Cards option is grey. What is going on?
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Hi Osvaldo
I can just confirm I had it once too. I just restarted. That solved it. But I always tought that is a Win solution If I can reproduce it I try to search why it happened.
But I have an other problem with mail merge:
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Sure I could remove the fields manually... but hey? Either it should give the possibility to merge it into a new document even with 1 address and remove the empty fields or keep it in the same document with the empty fields but shouldn't print them.
I think this are the small thing they will need to sort out over time (like that there is no possiblity to choose from "recent documents" in the open/create file wizard - if you close the wizard it closes Pages too. Or that after opening Pages without the wizard and choosin from the recent documents the blank document created automatically with the start up is not closed automatically if it wasn't edit before an other file was opened (yes , even MS has some smart tricks)).
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Sounds like you "upgraded" to Pages 5.
Apple has removed over 90 features from Pages 5.
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Okay, so here's the problem:
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Address Book data is stored in
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Can I send address book cards to I cloud?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
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When I try to set an email alert to myself iCal tells me:
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Also, if I drag an entire group from a shared Address Book to my Address Book, it is copied in a blue color, making me think "Cool! It is different from a group that I create (which are white), so it must be shared!" But it is not. Changes to cards in this "copied" group are not synced to the original shared Address Book. So, what does the blue color mean?

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Instead of the "Edit" and "Share" buttons that normally appear at the bottom of my listed contacts, I only have "Add Contact" and "Share." What gives? Why can't I edit any of my contacts?

Hey - I just found a post on another thread which cured my problem (same as yours). Here are the details.
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Back up your Address Book: From Address Book, choose File > Export and choose Export vCard to a desitnation of your choosing.
Close Address Book.
From the Desktop, Hold Option and click Go in the menu at the top of the screen.
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Expand the Application Support folder and drag the AddressBook folder to the Trash. Close window.
Open Address Book and import your address book vCard.
PS: mine was nothing to do with permissions. . . .

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Hi Tony ...
Might be corrupted preferences. (It's a Mac thing)
Quit the Address Book app if it's open. Command + Q on your keyboard or from the Address Book menu bar click Address Book > Quit.
Go to ~/Library/Preferences. Move the com.apple.AddressBook.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop.
Launch Address Book. If you can edit your contacts now, move the .plist file to the Trash. If not, just move it back to the Preferences folder.
If that didn't work, go to ~/LIbrary/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/Cahce.db
Move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit then relaunch Address Book. See if you can edit your contacts now.
~ (Tilde) character represents the Home folder.
For Lion v10.7x: To find the Home folder in OS X Lion, open the Finder, hold the Option key, and choose Go > Library
You can open a Finder window by clicking the Finder icon in your Dock (first icon on the left side of the Dock)

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Is not funny at all, everything was fine using Mobile Me but since I switch to iCloud I can't Edit or Delete my Address Book Contacts using my MacBook Pro or my MacPro.
In my MacBook Pro, i open Address Book and on the left I have te list of all contacts, on the right the selected contact informations, below I only have "Add Contact" or "Share", my friend have "Edit" instead of "Add Contact".
If I click on "Add Contact" this is the result:
Are you sure you want to import 1 card? 1 card is a duplicate and will be updated.
Everything fine using my iPhone or the website.
Apple, what's going on?

Here is some information and instructions from Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3998
Please note that iCloud is geared towards being an instantaneous (and in some cases temporary) parking place for various things with iDevices; the access and useability from a computer is more difficult and, for most things, has to be done via the website icloud.com.

HT2486 No edit button on address book card

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