My address book dosent work at all

When I open address book it wont let me add a new contact. I can't add a new card or new group. I've tried going in and changing some of the settings but nothing I do seems to work. Please any help would be great! Thanks

Try to check in "get info" by cmd+click on the actual address book folder (located in Applications): Are the permissions correct?
It maybe that its set to "read only"
Alternatievely, have you "trashed" the "com.apple.addressbook.plist" and "com.apple.addressbook.adb.plist"?

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Try reseting (not just turning off) your phone: hold down the Home button and the Power button on the top until the Silver Apple appears (ignore the red slider if it appears). See if the reset clears things up!
Cheers,
GB

I deleted a contact out of my iPhone 4S but when I go to send a message the contact appears although that individual is no longer in my address book. I deleted all text and call history pertaining to the deleted contact but still shows up.

I deleted a contact out of my iPhone 4S but when I go to send a message the contact appears although that individual is no longer in my address book. I deleted all text and call history pertaining to the deleted contact but still shows up. Does anyone have the same issue and how do I fix it?

dam122577 wrote:
but wont restoring as new delete all my info on my phone
Yes. That is why I added...
it will disappear over time due to non-use.

"Sync Address Book Contacts" option missing all groups

I had a problem with multiple copies of contacts on my iPhone so I deselected the "Sync Address Book Contacts" box in iTunes before synching. The popup said that all contacts would be removed from the iPhone, and I clicked to proceed. When the sync was complete, I verified that all contacts had been removed from my iPhone (they were).
Then I reselected the "Sync Address Book Contacts" but noticed that all 15 of the groups from my MacBook that normally appear in the box with the All Contacts/Selected Groups button were missing. I opened Address Book and they were all there.
I did a backup of Address Book and then deleted all of my contacts on my MacBook. I quit and restarted my MacBook and then imported my Address Book backup before connecting my iPhone and trying to sync the contacts again, but again, none of the groups appeared in the window and after proceeding with the sync anyway, not a single contact went to the iPhone. I've tried it by both selecting and deselecting the Contacts box under the "Replace information on this iPhone".
- I connected an iPod touch that didn't have any contact info to the MacBook and, as before, the groups from my address book did not show up and after synching, none of the contacts were installed on the iPod Touch, leaving me to believe that it is something iTunes related except that all of my calendars and music etc. sync without a problem.
- I've got the latest iTunes (10.1) and Snow Leopard s/w updates.
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Exported addresses from Address Book to desktop and then deleted all addresses from Address Book.
Deleted file AddressBook-v22.ab** from Library>Application Support>AddressBook.
Exited Address Book and iTunes, restarted Address Book and imported addresses from desktop.
Restarted iTunes and all of the groups were visible in the "Synch Address Book Contacts" window.

Why can't I get my iphone to import all the email address when it imports from address book? It syncs all other info. It make we want to go back to my blackberry

Why can't I get my iphone to import all the email address when it imports from address book? It syncs all other info.
I tried over and over, there must be something I need to change.
It make we want to go back to my blackberry

Usually restoring from backup eliminated the corrupted files. However, sometimes restoring to factory settings/new iPod is required.
To restore from backup see:
iOS: How to back up
To restore to factory settings/new iPod see:
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Address Book stopped working? PLEASE HELP!

hi there
i'm on a mac pro, quad core with leopard 10.5.2.
my address book was working perfectly then... yesterday i opened it up and it stopped working?
since then it has been frustrating that i have not been able to get it working?
here is a picture of what i see:
http://www.danmckie.co.uk/images/Addressbook_notworking.jpg
to me it looks like some sort of graphics's problem? i may be wrong.
I hope you can help so i can start using my address book again ASAP
thanks for your time and hope to hear from someone with a solution soon!
Boom!

Are those "Record Labels" your entries?
Is the problem the grey area on the right?
I had a similar issue with AB and iCal after a an upgrade and a restore from the backup. Somehow my app from a previous version got restored and looked dodgy.
Had to reinstall the OS and restore the databases only.
I think it is possible to pick the apps only from your OS install DVD.
Apart from that I've seen similar "crazy" things which were related to Java. Try to d'load and install Java...

Add to Address Book not working in mail.app

On all my computers : MacBook Air and Mac Mini, the Add to Address Book (command + Shift + Y) is not working in Mail.app.
It doesn't add the email and name in the Address Book (now called Contact).
Is this a broken link ?
Best. StG

Hey Saint-Georges -
I've got the same issue in the console. I didn't notice the keyboard shortcut not working but that's happening to me as well.
I've gone gone through and repaired the disk and disk permissions. Still no luck.
Hopefully someone has a fix.
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From the Console:
6/3/13 5:27:53.922 PM assistantd[4667]: <Error>: Daemon - Sync chunk denied! Canceling sync. [SASyncChunkDenied
aceId: "26234165-b039-4219-af4d-8f4fa5561ebd"
properties:
    callbacks: <empty array>
    errorCode: 0
group: "com.apple.ace.sync"
refId: "3274A842-6638-4E54-AFB3-F669BCCED462"
v: "1.2"
class: "ChunkDenied"]

How Do I Make Import Address Book Archive Work Properly?

I have several address books archived. I have one for Christmas cards, I have another for my neighborhood watch program and others that I use at various times. Some of the archives were made using Tiger and some I have created in Leopard. When I Export an Address Book Archive it does so without a problem. When I Import one of my Address Book Archives, to replace whatever address book is currently located in Address Book, the import does not work. Once I try to import, I must quit Address Book then reopen it and I still have the Address Book resident that I was trying to replace. The only way I have found to replace the resident address book is to first archive the current book for the sake of having it backed up, then delete all the names in the book by selecting all then deleting by hitting the delete key or by selecting Delete Cards using the Menu. After the names are deleted, then Importing an archive works fine.
Is anyone else having this problem or possibly have a solution to making Address Book work properly without having to delete all the current names before Importing an archive?
Information: I have deleted the Address Book Folder located within the Home/Library/Application Support folders and rebuilt it under Leopard OS and then pasted the names that were resident before deleting the folders. So far, I still cannot get the Import Address Book Archive function to work properly. Thanks in advance for any helpful information or hints.

Ok! Hmm... I indeed have tried to import an archive, did get the message, replaced all and had it working fine for me so it should for you I would think.
Have you tried to log in your computer as a different user, launch AB and try to toggle back and forth between archives to see if you experience the same issue? If not, then it is a user specific issue, if yes, then it may be more a case of app/system issue.
If you are able to overwrite in AB under a different user, then I would suggest you log in back to your main user and repair permissions (applications/utilities/disk utility repair permissions.
As for your use of AB and different archives, I am sure no one is bothered by that. We are all users here trying to learn and/or help others. I would only point out that if you cannot find a solution to your problem, you may want to consider working with AB in a different manner than you have in the past and by your description of usage groups and smart groups will more than handle your contacts while avoiding mixing apples and doughnuts - but I am sure you have thought of that already !!
hope this helps

Using 2 computers and Syncing Address book isnt working like I want it to

I have a Macbook (black) on 10.4.10 and a G5 dual 2.0 on 10.4.9.
I edited the addresses in my Macbook to get ready for my iphone and merged a bunch of addresses and got rid of duplicates and ABook froze on me. I had to force quit and when i reopened, the addreses were gone but then came back after a minute.
I'm not sure what happened but now i have all my names in my address book, but none of the information (emails, phone numbers, etc etc).
All of the missing info is still in my G5 address book, but not in my Macbook ABook.
I cant get them to sync correctly. What steps do I take to get them to sync properly.
PS, I must say that I've always had them in sync seemlessly in the past so my SYNC setting havent changed.
thanks!
dallas

Did you tried adding another carriage return?
typeahead "\r\r"
I tested your original script in a switch and it worked.

How does Address Book syncing work?

I have an Iphone 4 o/s5 and a MacBook Air. Under iCal preferences you can choose how often it syncs to iCloud and pushes (I guess) to my Mac and Iphone. But the Address book is kind of a mystery to me. I thought it was working but then I made some changes and it didn't seem to register them. So does one have to have Safari running in the background (i.e. being 'signed in' to the master iCloud account) all the time? Just how does it work in order to have changes in both iCal AND any contact info in Address book push to all devices? (I also have a Win7 machine with the iCloud console but get Itunes errors - haven't figured that out yet!)
Brenda

I found the answer myself.

Isync problems with address book~doesn't sync all info from add book.

This is a strange problem but when I sync my Palm E2 using isync the iCal works great but the address book only syncs certain information like the phone numbers and email addresses. It does not sync the regular addresses or AIM screennames/notes or any other information in address book. ONLY phone numbers and email. I've tried starting over and reinstalling the palm 1.2 conduit but nothing has changed. I've also tried exporting vcards straight from address book using bluetooth but the hotsync log states that palm couldn't open the .vcf file. This is a used Palm E2 and it didn't come with the original installation CD so I was thinking that it might be missing some necessary plugins/conduits. I ordered a new install CD from Palm which I haven't received yet but I was wondering if there's anything I could do to fix this problem myself. Any help would be appreciated!
Ahrum

This would have occurred if, after performing the hard reset, you synchronized again. The framework would have interpreted this to mean that you wanted to delete all contact, calendaring and task data.
You may be able to restore the data using several different approaches. If you had already created a backup file for your contacts using the option labeled Back up Address Book… under the File menu in the Address Book, just restore it using the option labeled Revert to Address Book Backup…
You can do the same thing for calendaring and task data using iCal, if you had previously backed up those files using an equivalent option in iCal.
If you had not, for contacts, then you'll need to navigate to this location:
Macintosh HD:Users:<username>:Library:Application Support:AddressBook
Drag the AddressBook.data file to your desktop or to the Trash. Duplicate the AddressBook.data.previous file, rename it AddressBook.data and launch the Address Book. If you're incredibly lucky, you data has been restored.
There is no brain-dead simple way to restore calendaring and task data.
If your not successful with that approach and have reasonably contemporary data in your Palm Desktop file, you can launch that application and export your contacts as a vCard file and your calendars as a vCal file. You cannot export your task or to do data in a format which you can them import into iCal, so you'll lose those records.
To export contacts, select Export… from the File menu, choose a name and location for the exported data file, set Module: to Addresses, Items: to All <xxx> Addresses, and Format: to vCard. Then press the Export button.
To export calendars, select Export… from the File menu, choose a name and location for the exported data file, set Module: to Datebook, Items: to All Datebook Items, and Format: to vCal. Then press the Export button.
Double click on each exported file to import your data into the Address Book and iCal.
Correct of update any information in these records, then back them up as outlined above. Then launch iSync, open the Preferences… dialog, press the Reset Sync History… button, and follow the instructions which appear.
Did I mention backing up your contact, calendaring and task data?

Address Book Not Working, Tried to Restore still Not Working

My address book isn't working. You can see what it does by clicking the link to the screenshot below. All menus are grayed out. and when i go into preferences It freeze's then I have to Force Quit. Thankfully I have Back up files of my address book. But even restoring them doesn't fix the problem. I'm thinking the actually Address Book program is messed up. What should I do???
http://www.squadxp.com/news/book.jpeg

K Rock XP,
You may want to try the plist replacement one more time. Make sure that you use the restart option.
Replacing individual OS X applications is rarely productive in correcting application problems. Unless there is some reason to suspect that you have adversely affected the installation, for now you will be better off pursuing another course of action. Can you correlate the appearance/lack of function with any other event?
If you create another user account, can you duplicate the behavior of Address Book in that new account?
If Address Book functions in another account it indicates that it is not a system wide problem, and you may benefit from following the troubleshooting procedures listed in Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption, by Dr. Smoke. Once again, let us know what happens.
;~)

Address books doesnt work

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You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them. Cheers! DALE

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OS X 10.5.8
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