In Address Book, cannot assign a contact to a list.

I am unable to assign a new contact to a list in the Address Book. I've entered the contact's info but when I highlight that contact's name, press the Ctrl key and attempt to copy it to a list, nothing happens. There is a plus symbol on the cursor as there is supposed to be when copying but the contact will not copy to a list. I have done this same procedure a hundred times with never a problem until now.

If you have added the contact to an address bookand now you want that contact to appear in that address book's Mailing List:
* Open 'Address Book'
* select the address book with the contact
* locate the contact, left click and hold down to grab
* drag contact to the left and hover over the Mailing List
* release to drop into Mailing List.
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It sounds like all of your contacts on your Mac running Lion are actually stored up in iCloud.
Several users running Mac OS X Lion and now ML (and iCloud) have no longer been able to "sync" contacts over to their older iPods models.
A work around is to export all of your contacts out of Address Book as vCards and them copy these vCards into your iPod's Contacts folder. You'll need to have the Enable Disk Use option ticked from under the iPod's Summary tab in order to browse out to the iPod's Contacts folder via the Finder.
Using your iPod as a storage drive
That's the only "solution" I have been able to use to get contacts to sync/appear on my 5G iPod Video.
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that should read all connected through I Cloud (fat fingers)

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Address book stuck and all contacts gone

when i open up address book none of my contacts appear and switching from directories to all contacts just resizes the empty window back and forth. when i try to resize the window using the handle on the lower right corner it keeps stretching out horizontally till it runs off the screen. I checked for the Helvetica font in system/library/fonts and it is there. it is also activated in font book. tried dumping com.apple.AddressBook.plist from my user/library/preferences, and tried various recommendations i found on these forums for renaming and replacing files in user/library/application support/address book. also tried dumping the address book from applications and reinstalling using pacifist.
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Address Book Cards and Mail Contacts have suddenly disappeared!

Help! The power went off for a minute here at the office, shutting everything down. When I restarted, the contents of my address book and all the contacts I had in mail have disappeared. Anybody got any ideas on what I can do? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Welcome to the discussions, malbright.
Try the suggestion in Loading “Apple - Support - Discussions - Address Book has suddenly LOST all my ...” - but it doesn't always work.
AK

Address Book / iCloud Deletes Imported Contacts Shortly after Import

I ran into a incredbily frustrating problem recently whereby attempting to restore a backup of my Address Book resulted all my contacts being deleted once I reconnected my computer to the internet and my Address Book began syncing with iCloud. I wasn't able to find a solution here but I was able to eventually find one online. I thought it was worth sharing.
Upon exporting a backup of your Address Book you have the choice of slecting to export the Backup as a "Address Book Archive" or as "vCard". If you select "Address Book Archive" and are syncing with iCloud when you attempt to reimport your backup, after about 15 to 30 seconds, iCloud will delete all of the Contacts you've just imported.
Exporting a "Address Book Archive" creates a ".abbu" backup file whereas exporting as a "vCard" exports a ".vcf" backup file. Apparently iCloud doesn't like ".abbu" backup files, but if you didn't know that and you're trying to import your backup contact file you're pretty much screwed!
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4) Select, File > Export > Export vCard...
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Importing your backup as a ".vcf" file will prevent iCloud from deleting all of your contacts upon syncing.
... at least it did for me ( :

I had the same problem on both my iPad & iPhone. I adding a contact on my iPad and now everything seems to sync properly. Hmmm, interesting..... THANKS FOR THE SUGGESTION.

Address Book: cannot delete contacts or stop syncing

I no longer use the Mac address book app., but I don't want to jettison it altogether in case I decide at some future date to use it again. It is full of contacts, and includes several groups that I created at the time when I did use it. All sorts of mysterious things keep happening: when I send e-mails out from my usual e-mail client (SeaMonkey, not the Mac Mail) to a group created in that e-mail client, the messages get sent to people I have deleted from the group — apparently because the contact is still there in the Address Book.
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I have not done the vCard bit because I do not want to keep the information from AB
That is just to have a safety Backup incase you need to restore it.
If I remove the folders you mentioned, would they be reconstituted if I opened AB again? Or should I keep them in a safe place?
No, to enable use in AB again you'd move the folders back to the original locations.
It looks to me as if the only safe thing to do is to leave the two folders where they are, but remove the AB application from my hard disk and keep it on a CD for possible re-introduction at a later date.
I doubt AB is doing this to SeaMonkey, it appears to me that SeaMonkey is looking in those AB folders itself for the info.
Is that a suggestion worth passing on to the software developers?
Honestly, I think that'd be the opposite of what 99.999% of people would expect/want, but...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
PS. And there's no likelihood it would be changed in Tiger/10.4.x, as Apple is working on 10.7.x now.

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I added a photo to one of the contacts in Address Book and then all the card info for all contacts disappeared. I still see the names in the "name" list, but I cannot add a new one, edit any of them or do anything. I added the photo from iPhoto and then it seemed to die. Any tips on how to remedy, or at least wipe clean and start over? I thankfully only had three contacts in there (new computer) but I suppose I won't attempt to add any photos in the future. I just need to restart the application somehow and I don't know how to do that. Mac help menu didn't seem to address this at all.
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Address Book cmd-X deletes contact card

I have a big problem with Address Book. When ever I use cmd-X in the notes section of a contact card it deletes the whole card. Using cmd-V right away only pastes the text I intended to cut -- the missing card is apparently gone forever.
This is beyond frustrating when I loose notes that cannot be replaced.
What's going on?
Thanks,
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When you reinstall, do you also restore your contacts from a backup?
If so, you may have brought over whatever it is that is causing you problems.
First, open Address Book and create an Address Book archive (File menu, export…)
Second, go into your user/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder and delete the
AddressBook-v22.abcddb file. It is an index to the metadata (vCards).
Third, go into your user/Library/Preferences and delete the com.apple.addressbook.plist file. That is the Address Book preferences. So, you will have to edit them back to your liking if everything starts working correctly.
Now, try Address Book and see if it works ok.
If you are syncing with MobileMe, you might consider resetting sync services if the problem returns.
Also, can you post a crash report? You can find them in Console, look in the CrashReporter section under ~/Library/Logs--just copy and paste it here.

Address Book Sync with Google Contacts across computers (instead of iCloud with Lion)?

I am trying to get ready for the port to iCloud and i am going to do this while still on Snow Leopard per Roger Wilmut's fantastic documentation. It appear to me I will simply lose Bookmark Sync (until I move to Mountail Lion) which is a small(ish) price to pay to not have to deal with an upgrade at the moment.
The question I am hoping to answer is if it will be possible to SYNC MY CONTACTS across my devices (MacBookPro, MacPro and iPhone) using the Sync with Google Contacts Option in Address Book Preferences.
Does anyone know if checking this option will put these contacts on both of my Machines and on my iPhone?
ALSO, does anyone know if it is possible to put the ADDRESS BOOK CONTACTS in one folder and the GOOGLE CONTACTS in another folder so they don't all get mixed up together?
TIA

I can't even get manual Google syncing to work with iCloud enabled. Without iCloud, everything works fine.

How do i get my address book to update iCloud contacts?

i had some groups set up on my Mac Pro address book and they where syced with Icloud and my Iphone. just a few days ago i noticed that the contacts from A to J in each group are missing. I corrected this on the Macbook Pro but it did not change on Icloud or my I phone.
how do i get my changes in my address book to update on Icloud?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.

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Are you sure you did that right ... because I did a File/Backup Address Book, and the file named included the date. I then copied the file through our Airport network from the Powerbook to a new iMac. The opening Address Book on the iMac, I did a File/Revert to Address Book Backup, which allows you to choose the file. Now the iMac had the same Address Book file as the Powerbook. This looks to me to be the same thing you are trying to do.

Address Book: Can't edit contact or add new

I have two computers and an iPhone that should be synching Address Book and iCal amongst themselves on Mobile Me. Recently, the iBook G4's Address Book has had some features disabled: the "edit" button is grayed out, the "+" button is grayed out, and trying to access the same functions under the file or edit menus, the same things are all grayed out. There doesn't seem to be anything in the settings or preferences that I can find that could be contributing to this problem. I need to be able to add and edit contacts from all 3 places, thus the point of having each of the devices and having Mobile Me. I don't know if this is an Address Book bug or a Mobile Me bug, as sometimes changes sync to iCal or Address Book, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes new changes are overwritten with old data, etc. Frustrating! It would seem an Address Book issue to not be able to add/edit though. Any ideas? And yes, both computers are on the same OS, 10.5.6.

Thanks to jamesk8752's link...I fixed it!!! :-) That link he posted brought me to the fix. I wrote it out easier to follow. I want to mention that when I upgraded to Mountain Lion the issue continued. This fix did the trick
1. Make a Backup Archive of your AddressBook.app (or Contacts.app)
2. Shut off iCloud Syncing (choose the option to delete the contacts).
3. Now with NO contacts in AddressBook (Contacts) quit the application.
4. Click on "go" and choose "go to folder" & navigate to [username]/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (even in Mountain Lion this is still accurate)
5. DELETE the addressbook-v22.abcddb file. Empty trash (just because I have OCD).
6. Reopen AddressBook/Contacts & create a new address card. You should now be able to edit it! Then delete it.
7. Go back into System Prefrences and turn on iCloud Contacts.
Your iCloud contacts will then appear and you'll be able to edit, delete, add, etc! Everything will be right as rain!

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strange problem with syncing my contacts from apple address book (system 10.6.8) to iPod touch (latest iOs):
all my newer contacts are ignored, only older ones are synced.
Any idea? Thanks in advance
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No, not yet, I never knew that iSync has something to do with my ipod ...
I will give it a try and report.

In Address Book, cannot assign a contact to a list.

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