I want to edit cards in address book and also add notes.

I have edited address book card frequently over the years. I have also added to the notes section. Editing used to require clicking Edit but adding notes could be started by just keyboarding the desired note.
Recently I can do neither of these functions. The help documentation talks about hitting the Edit button but it seems to have disappeared. The documentation is silent on adding notes.
Recently to cure this I set up permissions for the Libraries and had every enclosed file updated to allow me to do anything. This does not appear to be the cure for this.
Has anyone had this problem?
I have spend many, many hours since installing Lion sorting out these kinds of problems. Changes to settings seem to come with updates. I wonder if anyone at Apple knows about this issue.

Hi Mark.
The same issue in this post, and solve it!!!!!!
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16592940#16592940
I hope YOU solve this. Perhaps you may be repair permissions too.
Search in this support how to make this. I tell you how
Start the Mac and press cmd + R. Menú utilities/terminal. This open terminal and you may write "resetpassword".
This open the app and open the window app RESET PASSWORD (but we NOT RESET THE PASSWORD in this Action, only the permissions user and ACL).
Ten select the hard drive in the window that you want to restore permissions. In the List below select the user account you want to repair permissions. In the botón of the window PRESS in the bottom of the section REPAIR PERMISSIONS AND ACL. this Action takes several minutes in my MacPro.
Good luck!!!!

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OK i'm going insane trying to resolve this one.... all started with a shed load of Duplicates!
3 devices: MacBook Pro, iMac, iPhone 4S
I finally upgraded the MBP to 10.7.2, the iMac already was and the iPhone was already 5.0.1
I've held off moving to iCloud from Mobile.me because of the 10.6.x MBP
...so now all on the same song sheet, I clicked the upgrade to iCloud from my MBA and all went well!
The MBA pushed 1352 address cards to the iCloud and I only had the iCloud account showing in my Address Book.
My iPhone then happily went iCloud and downloaded ALL the calendars (and I have far too many....I'll clean up soon, promise ;-)
but i hadnt turned on Contact sync for a very good reason.
I DON'T WANT ALL MY CONTACTS ON MY iPHONE!
So having found some advice, it says you have to keep everything you dont want in iCloud, in the On My Mac account
(which I didnt appear to have at that point)
I turned my iMac on and connected to the iCloud, all went well and I again had a single iCloud account in Address Book with 1352 cards
I then went Address Book/Preferences/General/Deafult Account/On My Mac and it generated the empty On My Mac account in the Address Book.
Highlighting ALL my iCloud address cards and dragging them to On My Mac, a successful duplication was made.
Highlighting ALL my iCloud address cards and deleting, all three devices now had NO contacts in the iCloud related accounts (what I wanted)
I then turned on Contact sync on my iPhone and it pushed 186 contacts to the iCloud and in turn to all 3 devices (perfect!)
but then came the fun part....
On my iMac, the On My Mac account had gone from 1352 to over 1900 with loads of duplicates. So I selected ALL deleted and restored from an Address Book backup prior to going iCloud. This began my problem....
if I restore it WIPES the iCloud account from the machine and leaves me with 1352 in On My Mac,
if I try and add an iCloud account it then wants to upload the 1352 into the iCloud which I dont want.
If I delete all, setup iCloud acount first I get the 186 correctly, but the moment I restore from backup it overwrites and I'm again left with On My Mac and no iCloud account
AHHHHHH!
how on earth do I get the working iCloud with 186 (which is perfectly fine on 3 devices) and restore 1352 in ON MY MAC, so my iMac Address Book has two accounts very seperate from each other. I want the 186 on my MacBook Pro and iPhone, but I want an iCloud account with 186 and an On My Mac with 1352 on the iMac
ANY advice welcome
TIA

Thanks havinabubble for your assistance. I'm having all sorts of problems with iCloud because we've got iphone 3g's which means the iCloud is working on our mac and ipads but not on our iphones. I've been trying to solve this problem for days and I lost my "on my mac account" along the way. Once I followed your section where you gave directions how to "generate the empty On My Mac account" I was able to re-establish my contacts list on my mac. Your suggestion was very valuable. Thank you.
havinabubble wrote:
SOLVED!
thanks to a bit of sleep and https://discussions.apple.com/message/17282476#17282476
cheers to Winston Churchill who's post gave me the solution!
with On My Mac selected, highlight and DRAG TO DESKTOP
then highlight ALL and DELETE ALL
add the iCloud account which replaces ALL contacts with the 186 from the iCloud.
select Address Book/Preferences/General/Default Account/On My Mac and it generates the empty On My Mac account in the Address Book.
DRAG the 1352 back into On My Mac account
now have two accounts...
PROBLEM SOLVED, thanks Winston!

Address Book - Can't add Notes

Using 10.5.3 I can't add Notes to my address book cards either in Edit mode or not in Edit mode. The word "Note" is grayed out and I can't type in the field.
What am I missing? I feel like I am doing something wrong.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Try clicking to the extreme right of "Note:"
-mj

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I have only the problem with iCal, not with the contact application.
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I want to delete all the cards in personal address book and collected address, so I delete all of them, but when I reboot thunderbird, they all came back.

I want to delete all the cards in personal address book and collected address, so I delete all of them, but when I reboot thunderbird, they all came back.

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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".
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Apple, what's going on?

Here is some information and instructions from Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3998
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How can I copy all the info from a contact card in address book to paste into a documnent?

How can I copy all the info from a contact card in address book to paste into a documnent?

Tom Wolsky wrote:
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You can do that in FCPX too, as all the things you cited are listed separately in the inspector.
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Ical alarm default email is incorrect, how do I change it to match "my card" in address book.

When I create a new event in Ical the default email that appears in the ical alarm drop down menu is incorrect. I have changed My Card in Address Book to match my new email address but ical still wants to use the old email address. I have also completely deleted the old email account from Mail too. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

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I have searched and found plenty of posts on how to FIND, MERGE or DELETE duplicate cards in Address Book...
- But I want to CREATE a duplicate card. In other words, if I want to create separate cards for 2 married people with the same last name, address and home phone number, is there a fast way to create a second card without having to manually fill in all contact info?
Also, WHERE does one post Address Book questions? This was just a guess.
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Robert

I think I understand your question and if so, this is a decently speedy workaround.
1) Create your first card with say the husbands name
2) Go to File > Export > Export vCard
3) Change the name of the card that is in Address Book to the other person ie. the wifes name
4) Go to File > Import > Import vCard (shortcut is Command+O)
5) Now you will have the original vCard you created which is the husbands name and you will have the wife's name as well because you just changed it.
You can import and export multiple vCards at once so you can create all of them, export them, change all the names, and then re import.
Hope this helps!
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This topic was raised in 2006 and left unanswered and archived.
My wife won't use Address Book ( computer-challenged-she can't even open Mail--so it's set up to start each morning), and insists on using small Avery Rotary Cards (#5385) for names/phone numbers.
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See if this Avery software (freeware) will do what you want.
http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-%26-Software/Software/Avery-DesignPro -for-Mac.htm?N=4294967076&refchannel=3980ac83ae70a110VgnVCM1000002118140aRCRD
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Thanks so much. However, what I'd like to do is to print out on the Avery rolodex cards made for printers (full sheets). My husband has a business and single pages in an address book get REALLY messy and aren't as quick to find numbers -- and he's not into all the PDAs and such (not that into gadgets).
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