IMAC - lost view of Address book/Contacts and System Preferences

Need help.  Contacts and System Preferences show they are open, but never show up on the screen

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  • Lost all my Address Book Contacts and now can't locate Backup

    Strange, well today- now all my contacts dissappear for no reason...
    only shows 3 newest one.... What happen to the other 200 names that I had.
    I know I use Backup3 to my iDisk everyday, so I try to restore from a few days back and now it says "Can't Locate backup", gives me 3 choices to do "Locate",
    "Skip this Part" or Stop Restore. Nothing works for me.
    I even change the AddressBook.data.beforesave to AddressBook.data, now it shows most of the contacts, but still lost about 20 names...
    Dual G5   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

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  • View all address book contacts?

    I've used Outlook on my work PC for the last couple of years. One feature I like is the ability to view all contacts at once, in a grid view, when you click the Contacts button. Is there a Mac Mail plugin that would give me a similar view of my Address Book contacts? Thanks.

    well you could print the address book to PDF. but that only give you a list in a grip. You wouldn't be able to edit the contacts. You could get entourage for the mac (Microsoft's version of outlook for the mac)

  • Problems with iCal, Adress Book, Pages and System Preferences

    Hi,
    No less. Two days ago, I noticed that iCal crashed immediately after I open it, but as I was in an hurry, didn't take attention to that. After that, I forgot completely the issue. Till today, when I discovered that Pages opens a file but immediately after that it don't respond to any command and "Force Quit" report the program as "Not Responding". The same happens with Text Edit. I investigated a little and discovered that Adress Book and System Preferences also crashes immdiately when opens. In the last case, it only happens with certain options: for instance, iCloud, Mails, Contacts & Calendars. A little more research showed me that this only happens within my administrator account (my wife and kid accounts don't have from this problem). This is also the account that I use to synchronize with my Ipad and Iphone. On the other hand, my MacBook with the same OS and almost the same programs works fine.
    Any ideas about what can be the cause of this issue?
    Thanks!

    Hi,
    No less. Two days ago, I noticed that iCal crashed immediately after I open it, but as I was in an hurry, didn't take attention to that. After that, I forgot completely the issue. Till today, when I discovered that Pages opens a file but immediately after that it don't respond to any command and "Force Quit" report the program as "Not Responding". The same happens with Text Edit. I investigated a little and discovered that Adress Book and System Preferences also crashes immdiately when opens. In the last case, it only happens with certain options: for instance, iCloud, Mails, Contacts & Calendars. A little more research showed me that this only happens within my administrator account (my wife and kid accounts don't have from this problem). This is also the account that I use to synchronize with my Ipad and Iphone. On the other hand, my MacBook with the same OS and almost the same programs works fine.
    Any ideas about what can be the cause of this issue?
    Thanks!

  • Lost address book contacts and restore?

    Hi All,
    I know it has been discussed a while ago, but I have lost all my contact details by overnight. Luckily I have .mac account (now mobileme) and all the address synched with my previous address book items is there. The question is how I can restore it from mobileme.
    Thanks: Szimi

    How could I recover address book's contact info
    There are two possibilities. If you have a backup of your Address Book (AddressBook.abbu file), you can use the File > Revert to Address Book Backup menu option to restore your contacts. If you don't have a backup, you need to get in the habit of always making a backup when you make any change to your Address Book.
    The second possibility is to enable the Debug menu in Address Book using this Terminal command (Address Book must not be running when you do this):
    defaults write com.apple.AddressBook ABShowDebugMenu -bool True
    then press Enter, then quit Terminal.
    Start Address Book, go to the Debug menu and choose "Revert from MetaData" and wait to see what happens. With any luck, your contacts will be restored, after which you should make an immediate backup. If they are not restored, that means all the data was lost and you will need to restore from MobileMe, which is a question for their forums.
    Mulder

  • Address Book Contacts and Groups Randomly Disappear

    I have been having an odd problem with my Address Book lately. From time to time when I open Address Book, all of the groups will have disappeared, except for the smart groups. After I go through and recreate all of my groups, I can close the application and reopen it without having lost them, but then a few weeks or months later they'll be gone again.
    Today I had an even stranger problem. I was filling in the birthday field for several existing cards and in the middle of typing, almost all of my contacts disappeared. The only ones left were the ones that I had just created yesterday. Fortunately, I had backed up my database yesterday, but this seems like a serious problem.
    I share my address book with my wife via .Mac. I'm not sure if that affects anything, although my computer does seem to spend a lot of time syncing whenever I have Address Book open.
    I don't think this is a problem of low disk space as I still have over 11 GB left on my hard drive.

    I have been having the same problem. Contacts will disappear randomly. It is very frustrating especially when you go to write an email and realize that mail no longer has an email address for someone and you know that you have to input all of their info again.
    I wish Apple would figure this problem out.
    iMac Core Duo 20"   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

  • Address Book Contacts and Mail Previous Recipients Missing/Empty/Deleted

    At one point yesterday, I was happily catching up on some email using Mail. All was well. I toggled a message as Junk and went to forward it to [email protected], which was, of course, in my Previous Recipients list. Only this time it wasn't. I noticed, too, in iChat, that all of my buddies had reverted to their IM screen names from their normal Address Book-based First Name/Last Name. So I opened Address Book (which had not been running), and it was empty!
    To the best of my recollection, though I have a .Mac account, there was no syncing that occurred during any of this. Worse, when I did a manual Sync to see if .Mac would restore my contacts, it didn't. My Address Book remained empty. Fortunately, it didn't propagate its emptiness to .Mac, which I checked via the Web.
    When I fired up my spare iBook, everything seemed fine, and a sync there didn't blow away anything.
    I found a few posts that recommended replacing my now empty AddressBook.data file with AddressBook.data.beforesave, which was large enough to seem like it might still have a lot of my contacts. I did this, and my Address Book and Previous Recipients were partially restored. The only problem is that the beforesave file was dated June 2004 and is missing all contact information over the past year and a half.
    What the heck happened?! Is there any better solution out there? Any thoughts on why .Mac wasn't able to restore the file? Also, what does Previous Recipients have to do with the Address Book data files?

    Is your iBook the way you want it? all of your addresses? if so maybe you could back up that database and replace the old one thats fallen to pieces. If you try that though theres no real chance I think of rebuilding that old one as far as I know. My entouage database was an all in one type of deal. when it fell apart, you lost everything. I went to the mac mail and address book after that. everything is in seperate folders with that stuff. usually I've only seen this on older running installs of OS X. Like there is a bunch of directory probs. then things gradually get goofier over time.
    Thats strange it doesn't want to import contacts to your computer.
    I'll ask around

  • Reading address book contacts and sending them back to PC...

    Hi,
    I need some help. I have an address book on my computer and I want it to be able to send/recive contacts from/to mobile.
    Queastions I'm asking are,
    1.) connecting pc and mobile?
    2.) reading address book?
    3.) writing data to pc/mobile?
    I know these are quesions that have thousand anwsers so if you could maybe point me to right direction regarding tutorials.
    Thanks.

    I have been having the same problem. Contacts will disappear randomly. It is very frustrating especially when you go to write an email and realize that mail no longer has an email address for someone and you know that you have to input all of their info again.
    I wish Apple would figure this problem out.
    iMac Core Duo 20"   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

  • Multiple address book contacts in System 10.9

    Although this has been a problem resolved in the past, after installing Mavericks, my address book is generating multiple copies of each contact.  I just went through the "Look for Duplicates" drill and subsequently merged a few thousand contacts.  An hour later I see 6-to16 repeats for my contacts.  Is this an unadvertised feature of 10.9?

    Hi Eric Johnson15,
    Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
    If you've set iCloud to sync your contacts, this article may be useful:
    Symptoms
    After setting up iCloud Contacts, you may see an issue where individual Contacts appear to be duplicated. If you think you have this issue, visit iCloud Contacts at icloud.com/contacts to confirm if your contacts are duplicated.
    If your contacts are not duplicated on the iCloud website (but are in Contacts, Address Book, Microsoft Outlook, or on your iOS device), continue following the rest of this article.
    If your contacts are duplicated on iCloud.com, contact iCloud Support.
    iCloud: Resolving duplicate Contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4147
    Best Regards,
    Jeremy

  • Delete Address Book Contacts and Start New Synchronization

    Yesterday, I discovered that my address has not properly synchronized.
    How do I delete the content of the dotmac account so that I can have a clean start, please?
    Thanks for your help!

    This is the iSync forum, so you'd be better off asking in the *.Mac Sync* forum here:
    http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=957
    .Mac Support is also available here:
    http://www.apple.com/support/dotmac/

  • Cannot Synch Address Book Contacts from Mac OS to iPod

    I have current software, and a video ipod. I am unable to synch my contacts. When I try, the message is that I have not created any contacts in my address book and would I like to create some now....I do have Address Book contacts and cannot find an answer relating to using a MAC OS system (10.4.9) - they all seem to relate to windows problems. Everything else on my ipod synchs just fine.
    Please someone out there - any help?

    the easiest is to open AB on G3, select all contacts and drag them to the desktop. that will create one big vcard with all contacts. move it to the mac book and drop it onto AB there.

  • Iphone sync and 300 lost address book contacts

    Help. I'm sick about this. Everything has been going fine with my iphone until tonight. After I synced tonight, all 300 of my address book contacts disappeared on my phone AND on my computer. Even my backup hard drive doesn't show any contact information, only an address book icon which has no information when opened. Apple iphone tech support was unable to help me. Please I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight because of this. Can anyone out there help me get my contact information back?
    Thank you.
    Alden Burlington

    Joel,
    The Backup application they are referring to is the Backup application that comes with .Mac.
    It does incremental backups. It doesn't replace the previous days backup. You can go to your backup location, and choose the day you want to restore from.
    There is even a preconfigured plan for personal data and settings daily to iDisk that backs up iCal, Address Book, etc.
    I would also recomend going into iSync's preferences and setting it to prompt you if more than 5% of your contacts or data will be changed. This is the default for iSync, but can be changed to not warn, or only warn when 25%, 50%, etc will be changed. If it is on the default you will get a message if information will be lost.
    Also in some situations, reseting sync history before another sync, and then syncing again, may bring back some of the contacts.
    Hope this helps,
    Nathan C.

  • Can I get my wife and my phones to synch to the same iMac, but have different address books - when synching we keep ending up with all the contacts on both phones...

    Can I synch 2 phones to the same iMac, but have different address books?

    If you and your wife have separate user accounts on the Mac, then each of you will have separate libraries to sync. You can them maintain separate address books, calendars, apps, etc.

  • Restore lost Address Book contacts

    I lost all Address Book Contacts the first time I tried to sync my iPad2 with my iMac. I have recent Time Machine backups, so I restored this file:
    username/Library/AddressBook/AddressBook.data
    from a backup, making sure that Address Book was not running during the restore. I quit and restarted the iMac, but Address Book still shows 0 cards.
    Any ideas on what I did wrong, or what I can do to get my contacts back?

    urlgurl wrote:
    username/Library/AddressBook/AddressBook.data
    Try username/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb

  • Problems with outlook and address book contacts: my outlook contacts had around 3,000 entries. Outlook duplicated by itself and now outlook and address book have each over 340,000. What should I do?

    Problems with outlook and address book contacts: my outlook contacts had around 3,000 entries. Outlook duplicated entries and have now 340,000. I reinstalled microsoft office and, thus, outlook, and reinstalled mac OS X system and applications. While I managed to delete outlook contacts so that I can re-sync with my blackberry, the contacts at Mac Address Book were not deleted and still have over 340,000 entries. I do not mind deleting all contacts since I have back up, but I have not been able to delete them. Also, when I go at Address Book and try to delete or merge duplicated entries, the system takes forever and never ends because of such large amount of entries. Worse, when I do so I run out of RAM memory.
    My Macbook pro is just 2 months old.
    What should I do? Is there a way to delete my Mac Address Book without having the problem above?
    Many thanks
    Regis

    zlatan24 wrote:
    For solving out troubles connected with corrupted or lost address book you may use address book recovery. It owns various features such as restoring wab files, it working under any Windows OS. The utility has modern and easy to use interface due to almost every experienced users.
    If it is a windows problem it's not going to run on the OP's MacBook Pro

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