I've managed to lose my address book

I've managed to lose my address book. Not the contacts, as they are still accessible through the Mail app. System is iMac mid-2010, OS X 10.7.5. How can I restore the address book without restoring the whole system?

Ok, you may have simply misplaced the app from its home in /Applications. First, Click Launchpad and see if it is in there. If so simply click it and once opened right click it in your dock and select "Keep in Dock". However should you have moved it, simply try Spotlight to find it. Then open it and make sure it is located in /Applications.
Michael

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How do I manage duplicates in my address book

How do I manage duplicates in my address book.
I am using iOS 7 and iCloud

Hi nacnud1234,
If you are having issues with duplicates when using iCloud Contacts, you may find the following article helpful:
iCloud: Resolving duplicate Contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4147
Regards,
- Brenden

How to use Desktop Manager to synchronize several address books?

Customer found on BlackBerry device - address book options - there's 2 Desktop under Address Books. How to specify which address book will be synchronized with outlook via desktop manager as a wired sync?

Your having this issue, because at first, your blackberry was trying to sync via the BES, then you hooked it up to the desktop manager. The desktop managed then tried to sync the device over the wire via the desktop manager and turned of wireless sync, how do you wanna sync, wirelessly, or through the BES?
If you wanna do it through the BES, you have to delete desktop cmime, desktop sync and desktop cical and resent those from the server to get wireless sync back.
to get to servic book, go to settings/options/advanced options/service book and scroll to these service books and delete them, then from the bes manager, repush service books will resent them, this can take up to 15 minutes though.
If you wanna sync via the wire, just sync with the desktop manager, you should not be trying to do both
If someone helped you give them kudos. Research all info!

Is HP Device Manager Supporting Apple Contacts (Address Book) in OS X Yosemite when computer faxing?

Hi,
I am trying to select best possible printer for our small office which will let us use os x's power and integritiy to do a lot with less effort. Hp Office Jet Pro X576 and 8630 look very promising to me.
As a power user, recent mac switcher I was digging hp support forums to make clear if Apple Contacts (Yosemite 10.10, former Address Book) supported in Hp Device Device Manager when Faxing. I have found some shared screenshots but no Apple Contacts icon available near fax options dialogue boxes.
Imagine that I have 4000 contacts on my mac those nearly all have fax numbers along with emails. Based on legal and business purposes faxing is essential to us. Finally, I wouldn't like to enter fax number manually every time faxing.
Thanks

Hi,
I am trying to select best possible printer for our small office which will let us use os x's power and integritiy to do a lot with less effort. Hp Office Jet Pro X576 and 8630 look very promising to me.
As a power user, recent mac switcher I was digging hp support forums to make clear if Apple Contacts (Yosemite 10.10, former Address Book) supported in Hp Device Device Manager when Faxing. I have found some shared screenshots but no Apple Contacts icon available near fax options dialogue boxes.
Imagine that I have 4000 contacts on my mac those nearly all have fax numbers along with emails. Based on legal and business purposes faxing is essential to us. Finally, I wouldn't like to enter fax number manually every time faxing.
Thanks

Trouble managing contacts/retrieving archived address book

Sorry if something similar has already been posted, but any help would be greatly appreciated!
Bought an iPhone yesterday. After the initial address book sync, I realized that I didn't need many of the contacts, and manually deleted them from my iPhone. Today I set up additional groups in my address book, and then checked only 3 of these in options to sync with the iPhone. I created an archive of my address book and then synced with the iPhone.
By syncing, everything that I deleted on the iPhone was deleted from my computer's address book. When I try to import the archived address book, it asks me twice if I want to replace, and then only shows one card and no groups (the card shown seems random, it changes every time).
Anyway, is there any way to retrieve the deleted contacts, either from my iPhone or computer? Help!

After the initial sync with a supported address book application on your computer, the sync process for contacts is a bi-directional or true sync process with the supported address book application on your computer.
When you created the Address Book archive with the Address Book on your Mac - at the Address Book menu bar you went to File > Export and selected Address Book Archive?
If so, your entire Address Book should have been archived. When you go to File > Import > Address Book Archive and select the Address Book Archive that you recently exported, only one contact is available?

"do not import" issue in Address book

Hi, well I just switched and bought my first mac. I managed to get the address book from the ancient dell laptop into the desktop of mac as a .csv file(from excell in windows). The import utility recognizes all the addressed and names, but by all of them it has the "do not import" checkmark....would Love to know how to uncheck that....also tried to save it as a textedit file...can read it on the mac but address says no...I do not have ability to make vcard at this moment....any help would be appreciated.

I had the same problem. Here is the background and the solution. I purchased a new iphone4 and had the contacts transferred from my old iphone 3g. When I added a contact using the option to add the contact from a received phone number or received text, the contact would not show up in "Contacts." If I did a spotlight search, I could find the contact. I also had the same problem with the 3g phone, but it didn't occur as a problem then since I didn't need to access the people I added that way very often.
The problem is that there was a corrupted address or photo attached to the contact data file. When I performed a reset (go to settings, general, reset, reset all settings) on the iphone, the missing contacts magically appeared in Contacts...but ONLY the first time I opened Contacts. So, I opened my Mac Address book and manually entered all the contact information from the missing contacts into the address book. Then I went into iTunes, connected my iphone, and performed a Restore. (WARNING: You will need to make sure that any purchases you made on your iphone have been transferred to your computer (songs, videos, apps, etc. plus you will need to sync any Notes as well) BEFORE you perform the Restore...otherwise you will lose these things and have to repurchase them!)
When you perform the Restore, you will be asked at some point to either set up the phone as a NEW phone or Restore from a backup. You MUST choose to set up the phone as a NEW phone. Otherwise you will simply place the corrupted file back on the phone. You can, after selecting the NEW option, allow the computer to place the address book, apps, and other files back on the iPhone. Your Contacts will then work as it should, and people you add from options outside of Contacts will be added to Contacts as they should.
Yes, it is a pain and will take an hour or more of your life to fix. But, it fixes the problem. The key is in setting up the phone as a New phone and not restoring from a backup.
Hope this helps.

Contact disappeared from iPhone but not deleted from Address Book on sync

FYI, I have an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.2 (the latest), and I have never so much as thought about MobileMe.
Until two days ago, I have had no reason to doubt that my iPhone's Contact list is the same as my MacBook's Address Book list. I now have no confidence that the same info. exists in both: I know for sure that at least one contact long present in both has disappeared from the iPhone, yet syncing all contacts neither returns it to the iPhone nor deletes it from Address Book! I need help troubleshooting this contact as well as verifying that there aren't other similar anomalies corrupting my data, hopefully without manually comparing all 685 entries...
Two days ago, a certain number, let's call it (310) 555-5555, popped up in my recents list as a missed call and in my visual voicemail. When I listened to the voicemail, I discovered that (310) 555-5555 was Jane Smith. I remembered entering Jane Smith several months ago, so I thought hmmm, does she have a second number? I tried to add (310) 555-5555 to an existing entry, only to find my iPhone had no entry for Jane Smith anymore at all! I did not delete her myself, and I'm not aware of any 3rd-party app that ought to have affected the entry. I haven't called Jane Smith or (310) 555-5555 in quite some time, so I have no idea how long the entry may have been missing. I searched the whole phone (left of the first home screen)
At the next opportunity, I looked in Address Book on my laptop, and indeed found the expected entry for Jane Smith, (310) 555-5555. I have no idea how she disappeared from my iPhone -- did I or some third-party program delete her? Or did it happen through some sync issue? -- but I naturally worried that when I next synced, the deletion would sync, too, and I would lose the Address Book entry, leaving me without Jane Smith's number at all.
Such an event would defeat the entire purpose of backing up my phone contacts to my computer; I just moved to iPhone this spring after being a Palm user since 1997, and the idea that iPhone might not be reliably syncing my contacts is frankly terrifying. I checked and saw that my Address Book listed 685 contacts to iPhone Contacts's 684, so I decided to risk a sync in hopes that maybe I had caused a one-off deletion. I wrote down Jane Smith (310) 555-5555 just in case and hit sync.
The results of the sync and my subsequent troubleshooting have seriously undermined my confidence in the fidelity of the sync process. The first time, nothing changed--I still had 684 iPhone, no Jane Smith, and 685 Address Book, including Jane Smith.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Before conecting your phone, open iTunes on your computer and go to Preferences, on the Devices tab check "Prevent...from syncing automatically". Now connect your phone and when it appears in iTunes on the left sidebar click on its name. Go to the Info tab and confirm than your have checked Sync Contacts with Address Book. Now further down on the Info tab under Advanced>Replace information on this iPhone check Contacts. Click Apply and sync your phone. This will replace the contacts on your phone with the contacts in Address Book. (When complete you can go back to iTunes preferences and uncheck "Prevent..." to re-establish automatic syncing if your prefer this.)

I lost my address book when I installed Mountain Lion and have not been able to recover it. WHen I type in a name in an email the address shows up, so I know it is in there. How can I restore my address book?

I don't know how to do this. I typed the question in the bar above, but apparently need to type it again here. I lost my entire address book when I installed Mountain Lion and have been unable to recover it. I know the information is in there as when I type in someone's name in an email the address always shows up right away. How can I find the information for my contacts and restore my address book? Do I need to go to the Apple Store that is 2 hours away and have an expert help me or can I find out how to do it online for free myself?

The auto-complete in Mail addresses comes from two sources: (1) The "Previous Recipients" list, which can be viewed via Mail > Window > Previous Recipients. (2) Your Address Book (now called "Contacts").
If you did in fact lose your Address Book - are you sure you don't have "Contacts" in your Applications Folder? - It sounds like you are getting addresses from source (1). If you did in fact lose your Address Book (now called "Contacts" !!), you will have to restore it from a backup.
charlie

How to sync iPhone 4 contacts to Mac address book

Hello!
I can sync all my contacts from the Mac address book on my MacBook Pro to my iPhone 4. However, why does it not sync the iPhone contacts to the Mac address book? Should it not be like a two way sync? I was looking at the syncing options but it does give that option. I just want to make sure that I have the same contacts on my iPhone and Mac. I do understand that MobileMe does that. But till I can afford to have MobileMe, maybe there is another solution?
Anybody... help!

I had a major drama doing this last night, have managed to restore my Address Book file with a backup after I mistakenly wiped all the contacts I had created on my iPhone. Yikes! I suggest when you sync your iPhone leave it plugged in after the sync until you check that the contacts are all where they should be. That way, the most recent backup that is done automatically when you plug in the iPhone will still have all your iPhone contacts should something go amiss and they can be restored. Also export your computer's Address Book (File>Export in Address Book) which should land in your Documents folder.
To get all my iPhone's contacts back into my Mac's Address Book, I created a group in my Mac Address Book called 'iPhones contacts'. When I synced the iPhone with my Mac, (Info tab>Sync Address Book Contacts in iTunes), I checked the box that says 'Add contacts created outside of groups on this iPhone to...' and checked the new 'iPhone contacts' group and when I synced, all the new contacts on the iPhone landed in my Mac's Address Book. Phew. Heartstopper!

Is there a way to sync address books?

I have the address book for our company on a server. I would like to synchronise the address books in both directions.
Is this possible? Any tips as to how to do this? Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks

Mapping solves the problem. Groupwise has no corresponding field for "Direct Connect". For ease of data entry, I mapped the Direct Connect field in my 8350i with the pager field in my groupwise address books. The BB desktop manager now syncs the nextel direct connect #'s.
The steps are:
In BB desk top manager, select Sync Configuration; address book; advanced; Field Mapping (at bottom of list). Map an unused field in the GW address book with the direct connect field in the 8350i.
I assumethis would also work with outlook and others.

"...cannot use the application "Address Book.app" with 'leopard.'...????

I get the message: "You cannot use the application “Address Book.app” with this version of Mac OS X. "What does this mean, wat do I do? Do I lose my address book.?

you can do the following to transfer your Tiger addressbookdata file to Leopard if none of your other countermeasures are working.
Create a new folder and give it a name such as TigertoLeopard data or whatever;
then drag your Tiger addressbook data file into that folder;
add .abbu to the end of the name you gave that new folder;
remember where you placed the folder and use Leopard Mail import command.

Address book is blank!?!?!

I went to get my address book and blam, it was completey wiped blank! Is there a way to retrieve it?
shheeez, I wonder if me fooling arounf with smart mailboxes caused me to lose my address book? Anybody have any ideas as to what I can do?
mahalo,
RB

Roger,
open the folder
~/Library / Application Support / AddressBook and find the file that has the ...before save extension. Press your Alt key and select it (not double click, just one), now while you continue to hold down the ALt key, just drag the file to the desktop. You will see a green dot with the + sign appearing on the icon, indicating that you are copying this file, creating a duplicate of the orginal.
Now do the rename thing I mentioned above and start AB, report back if it does not work.

Multiple Address Books causing problem syncing

I use Desktop Manager to syncronize my address book. On my BB, I have two address books for some reason. One only has 39 entries and that is also what is showing in my Outlook. The other address book has 234 entries that are not showing in my Outlook. I need all 273 in my device and Outlook.
Please help.

Hi
I had the same (two adessbooks [DESKTOP]after switching from BIS/Outlook to BES /Lotus Notes
after a while I also discovered that camera pictures where stored to device memory, wheras movies to the mem-card
another thing: first phonecall on a day was silent - no ringtone.
I thought internal databases must be screwed up..
I wiped device and re-did the firmware update
all good now and all flaws fixed..
I blamed the BIS -BES switch , don't know if I'm right..
interestingly, I expected that Contacts,Calendar and email to be be updated on the air via BES
but I also found my Browser favorites reloaded ! Big Brother RIM or is it my employer?
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Restoring address book entries from Time Machine

My wife managed to merge our address books via mobile me (not sure how-neither is she!!). Anyway I went in and deleted all her contacts from my address book on my mac, synced and I was all set. Problem is she says (not sure if this is accurate) that the contacts in question disappeared from her phone (which would make sense for my account on her phone but they should still show up on her account).
Anyway I have been trying to use time machine to restore the individual entires but I don't want to simply restore the whole address book. I tried restoring the user/library/application data/address book/metadata file to my desktop and then importing the individual cards into my address book in a specific group for her and once I did that step 2 was going to be to figure out how to get those back into her mobile me account. Problem is step 1 is not working-when I try to drag the individual card files from the metadata folder Address Book says they are not vaild cards (i.e. contain no data).
Can anybody steer me in the right direction for at least step 1 (and 2 if possible)?

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How to turn mailing lists into address book groups

I'm looking for better ways to manage groups in the address book.
I especially need a way add recipients on distribution list for a particular piece of email to a particular group. I have a bunch of implicit groups I've created that way in gmail and I'd like create explicit address book groups out of my (informal) email distribution lists. Mail.app does a good job of downloading the mails via imap or pop, but now I want to select a message and say "Add everyone who received this mail to my alumni [or whatever] group in the address book."
I'm also looking for other ideas, tips, scripts for managing groups in my address book.

OK, how about you open your csv file in Excel and put a tag identifying the custom label in front of each of the items (so eg 05991444555 with label special becomes sp-05991444555), then do your import. Then after the import run an AppleScript to strip the tag and reset the label.
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