Looking for Address Book Cleaning Programm?

Hallo
I have export (txt tab format) a large Database (2400 records) from our PABX-System (Habimat). The Field are very dynamic. Now I want to clean this file an make for every records correct fields to that I am later able to import them in the Address Book.
Is their such a Program to generate "own" fields for each record, e.g. Spouse-Name, Spouse-GSM, Spouse-Birthday, Secretary, Child etc. I sorted out that the iphone is able to handle all these different field names, but it very frustrating to edit 2400 record within the Address Book or on the iPhone.
I tried to edit them in Excel but I need to prepare field that will be import in the Adress Book.
Is their a tool availible on Mac (or Windows) that helps me to edit all this records to the correct fields?
Regards
Gérard

I'm in the same boat, Tor...
...The Apple Address Book is the most awkward of all the contact management programs I've used. I too have trouble with duplicates. One source is when I merged two data bases. One had middle initials and the other didn't. I've been pecking away at deleting them one by one and with over 5,000 contacts it'll take me all year. Please keep me informed if you get a descent response to your posting. Good luck and know you aren't alone if that's any consolation.

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I am trying to sync by calendar and address book.
Works for the Calendar but not Address Book.
I get the following Sycn Warning message. Synchronization unavailable for: Address Book because the application(s) is (are) configured for wireless synchronization. Desktop synchronization for the above application(s) will be disabled. click here for information how to disable wireless sync on your device.
Followed instructions to the letter numerous times and it doesn't work.
HELP!

Are you connected to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server? If so you can delete one service book on your device, and this will allow you to sync your device through the wire.
To do this go to: Option> Advanced Options> Service Book. In here look for the Desktop [SYNC] service book. Press the menu key and choose delete.
Now you should be able to sync your device with Outlook. Once the sync is done go back to: Option> Advanced Options> Service Book. Press the menu key and choose undelete.
Hope this helps.

HT4910 I tried to update my address book on OS X6 with an abbu from my other computer which has Lion OS X 7. It wiped my address book clean and I cannot retreive by Address book on my OS X 6 computer and saves out there?

I tried to update my address book on OS X6 with an abbu from my other computer which has Lion OS X 7. It wiped my address book clean and I cannot retreive by Address book on my OS X 6 computer and saves out there?

blacksheepfibers wrote:
I updated my mac with os x Lion so that I could accomplish moving my address book from the mac to my new IPad 3G. I also set up an icloud account for this purpose, but I *still* cannot figure out how to move my address book from one computer to the other. When I'm on my mac and try to use bluetooth to export the address book, I'm able to find my ipad but I soon get a message that it does not support the necessary services. I have no idea what's going on and would appreciate any advice. tks in advance, Sarah
The address book syncs via iCloud, not Bluetooth or iTunes.
You upgraded to Lion so you could use iCoud.
On the computer. go to Apple menu > System prefs > iCloud.
Sign into your iCloud account.
Tick everything.
This enalbes the se items syncing to iCloud.
On the iPad, Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Create a new iCloud account.
Sign in with the same AppleID as your computer.
Settings > iCloud and turn everything on.
BAM!
That is all you need to do.
Your contacts (and all other checked items checked) will sync between computer and iPad.
No need to use iTunes

Groupwise Field Definitions for Address Book entry

Hi,
I am looking for Groupwise Field definitions i.e. Field Names associated with Address Book entry (Contact and Organization). I am using OAPI to access the Contact's field values and set the Contact's field values by Field Name. Is there any place which has the list of all the field Names associated with Contact and Organization Address Book entry.
Note: Field Definitions for Address Book entries that are in PAB.
I also look for the comparision of Field Names in Groupwise 7.0 and Groupwise 8.0.
Thanks,
Pranav

Why don't you iterate through all the field definitions of a given abook?
This will give you the list of all possible fields for an entry.
Markus
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> Hi,
>
> I am looking for Groupwise Field definitions i.e. Field Names
> associated with Address Book entry (Contact and Organization). I am
> using OAPI to access the Contact's field values and set the Contact's
> field values by Field Name. Is there any place which has the list of all
> the field Names associated with Contact and Organization Address Book
> entry.
> Note: Field Definitions for Address Book entries that are in PAB.
>
> I also look for the comparision of Field Names in Groupwise 7.0 and
> Groupwise 8.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Pranav
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Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.

Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can;t see a symbol for address book.

Where are addresses kept on MAIL? I don;t like the new format at all. Frances
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From: Frances Topping <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: - Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.
Date: August 25, 2014 at 9:46:01 AM EDT
To: discussions-replies <[email protected]>
Old Entourage is POP and new Mavericks MAIL is IMAP I believe. I don;t know how to export in the forms you mention. Frances

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Tags or keywords for Address Book?

I'm surprised to find that Address Book doesn't seem to offer any sort of tags, keywords, or categories for contacts. I've searched the web and can't seem to find any information about this, or a plugin that do for Address Book what MailTags does for Apple Mail. Does anyone know of something to help???

I mostly use groups for both those purposes. I also use the company field as a sort of tag, since very few of my contacts are companies rather than individual. So I have contacts with builder or plumber or electrician in the company field - but this won't work for you if you need that field for company names. The other field you can use is the notes field; you could put several tags in, and you wouldn't need any special separator as search will find them.
The advantage of groups, for me, is that you only have to type the tag or category once and you can so quickly isolate all those in the group. A contact can of course be in multiple groups; indeed a group can be in a group.
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Can't find Application Support for Address Book in Lion. Any ideas where to go?

I need to re-establish my Address Book after iCloud doubled all of the entries in it. But I can't find Application Support for Address Book in Lion.
Can someone help?

Go menu -> Go to folder.
Enter ~/Library
And select Go.
Your contents will now be visible.
WARNING: messing around with these contents without at least twice backups may make your data inaccessible or worse if you don't know what you are doing.

Source code for address book

hi everyone,
i have to make a contact wizard for iphone, i have allready designed the view for contact wizard using navigation controller, there are 3 pages total which includes UITextFields, PickerView, and Table View.
Now i dont know where to write code for add contacts in address book database.
can any one help me by some code sample...?????
i have written code in a function which is called on the Navigation toolbar Button
the code is
ABRecordRef aRecord = ABPersonCreate();
CFErrorRef anError = NULL;
ABRecordSetValue(aRecord, kABPersonFirstNameProperty,
CFSTR("Jijo"), &anError);
ABRecordSetValue(aRecord, kABPersonLastNameProperty,
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firstName = ABRecordCopyValue(aRecord, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
lastName = ABRecordCopyValue(aRecord, kABPersonLastNameProperty);
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CFErrorRef error = NULL;
addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
BOOL isAdded = ABAddressBookAddRecord (
addressBook,
aRecord,
&error
if(isAdded){
NSLog(@"added..");
if (error != NULL) {
NSLog(@"ABAddressBookAddRecord %@", error);
error = NULL;
BOOL isSaved = ABAddressBookSave (
addressBook,
&error
if(isSaved){
NSLog(@"saved..");
if (error != NULL) {
NSLog(@"ABAddressBookSave %@", error);
CFRelease(aRecord);
CFRelease(firstName);
CFRelease(lastName);
CFRelease(addressBook);
But it is showing many errors.
can any one give me some advice how to manage it?

You probably won't get much help here... this is a user forum, not a developer or programmer forum.

Database Manager for Address Book

Help me! I seem to need to reconstruct my Address Book every time I change my PDA. the card formats are never quite the same....
To date, I have been exporting to text files, cleaning the text tile with MS Word, opening the text file in Excel - doing my clean up and reorganization in Excel - saving as a text file, then importing the text file back into Address Book.
Eh - and every time I do this, SOMEthing get screwed up. This time, I lost all the fax numbers!
Question: Is there a database manager that will open the AddressBook.Data file in native format, allow me to make global changes or individual edits and resave the native format - without needing to do all of the exporting and importing and data corruption?
Thanks for any feedback or comment!
iMacG5 & PB 12"G4 & PB 15" Ti (G4) Mac OS X (10.4.5) Extreme Basestation & Belkin Enet Switch

look at <http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/addressbookimporter>
maybe this solves your problem.
What PDA are you using?

Access via command line to the data files for Address Book

Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8
Mac Mini 2.66 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 1067 MHZ DDR3
I rolled back from Mountain Lion Server to Snow Leopard Server because I needed mySql. At the time I was under AppleCare and they walked me through the steps. However, I ended up with Address Book issues.
Addressbook user on the Snow Leopard Server was upgraded to Mountain Lion Server. During the rollback process, the Apple tech had me delete the Addressbook user.
When we finished the rollback, he had me recreate the Addressbook user, but now it is linked to a new, empty data file. I cannot add new contacts nor edit or delete them. So I need to use the command line to view both data store files, find the one that has my data in it and re-attach it to my new Addressbook user.
Can someone help me with the Command Line commands?
Thank you,
Cailyn

Hi,
There are a couple of more advanced solution I can think of and I'm actually working on one myself.
* You can create your own jnlp client that allows you to pass in arguments. That sounds harder than it easy. Building a stripped down jnlp client (e.g. no installer, no applets) using one of the two open-source client as a start takes probably just a couple of days and should be sufficient for in house usage.
* Another solution is what I'm working on now. You can wrap your own executable around javaws that takes your passed in arguments plus jnlp href and looks up the original in the cache and adds a new one to the cache that it passes on to javaws and suddenly everything works as it should. The magic will be revealed at http://www.geocities.com/vamp201
- Gerald Bauer

Spotlight search for Address Book contact results in import query?

This bug is happening frequently lately, wheby I perform a Spotlight seach for a contact that is in my Address Book, and then when I select the contact in the search results, Address Book is selected and the app asks me "Are you sure you want to import 1 card?"
Anybody ever see this problem or how to resolve it?
Thanks.

Peter, that is not a solution -- try selecting the same contact again from spotlight and you'll get the same "Import" dialog box, asking you what you want to do.
The expected behavior from Address Book is to open the existing contact.
No other application does this from Spotlight that I'm aware of, and after 7 years of OS X, this is still very, very annoying.
I wish there were a fix -- I'm activley looking and will report back.

Web interface for Address Book?

Does anyone know of a web interface that is already installed or can be installed for the Address Book like the calendar and webmail have?

take a look at
http://vcardphp.sourceforge.net/

Search should look at address book notes & application data

Search is basically useless to me, I used to have the ability to categorize my address book, or at the very least make a note in a contact that was searchable. (For example, "work" in the note section of a contact would result in search results of just the contacts with this note, go figure!) I also have lots of stuff in alternate notes programs that is not searchable. Not much of a reach to make data entered into an "i-device" searchable, I think a few software engineers should be able to tackle this insurmountable problem! I paid $500 for a device that has fewer options than my Palm Pilot did 8 years ago!(and in regards to searches, is absolutely inferior)Sounds like the only way to get apple to address an issue is to make lots of noise in this support forum. Sorry to waste anyone's time.

I just had this same problem. I use multiple mac computers that I sync manually because of a previous idisk issue. I noticed as I updated my cloud, the search function in address book quit working properly on each computer.
So created a new group list and I attempted to copy "All Contacts" into that group. It would not copy all my contacts into that group in one paste function. So I took all the the first 25 names and copied them. That worked. Then I moved to the next 26-50 names and so on. I noticed when I got to the fourth group of copying contacts that it did not paste and froze the application.
I quit address book, reopened it. All the contacts before the the fourth group were in the file. The search function worked on those names. I then went card by card and found one that had a "string" of data listed where an email address should I have been. So I deleted the corrupt card and now my address book search is working again.
Here is the short solve. Look for a corrupt card in your address book. I found the corrupt card by trying to copy it over to a new address group. The card that was corrupt just happened to be one that I had updated in the last week or so...
Hope this helps.

Duplicates of elements for Address Book entries

I have looked through the various threads that discuss "duplicate" entries in Address Book (Contacts). My situation is a slight variation.
While I have a handful of AB people who have multiple entries (some have as many as 15!), my problem here is that most of my entries have double (and often triple) entries for an item. For example, two (or 3) Home Address items, or two (or 3) Home Phone items, etc. When an entry has double (or triple) values, everything for that entry (other than the Notes) is replicated in that same way -- spouses, children, ... everything.
I have a Mobile Me account. I have syncing in iTunes turned OFF on both computers. One computer is running 10.4 (and therefore has Address Book 4.0.6 as the latest version). The other is running the latest version of 10.6, with Address Book 5.0.3. We have two iPhones and an iPad.
What is suggested to correct the entries so that there is only one value for each of the fields?

having the same Issue, when I add a contact on my iphone ( or edit) after syncing over MObile me : 1 iphone, 1 desktop / 1 powerbook:
the contacts get doubled or trippled ( in all iphone and macs) and sometimes the I got up to 10 same phone number entries..
it seems to sync back and forth couple of times...

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