"my card" in address book for system accounts

I have four macs.. I would love to have them refer to the same card in the Address Book for my logon.. instead I have four seperate cards.. Can anyone give me any leads?

no help here .. but hey I am down to two macs with my G% and powerbook dying.. less of a [problem

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Export address book for Gmail account

Hello!
I would like to export my address book as a CSV file for import into Gmail. Address book can export a vcard, but I don't see anything about CSV.
I'd enter it manually, but I'd MUCH rather use my current address book - it's correct, and I don't have to type in stuff!
Thanks,
Dan

Here is an Applescript I wrote for just that purpose. It's a little rough but all your main info is translated to Gmail fields. Do not use this script for a "backup", as it drops a lot of fields.
I have been the only one to use this, so reports/complaints are welcome. Script beeps when finished, and the file appears on your desktop.
-- Export to Gmail.scpt
-- version 23 May 2006
-- http://Gnarlodious.com/
set separator to ","
set gmailElements to {"Name", "E-mail", "Notes", "Section 1 - Description", "Section 1 - Email", "Section 1 - IM", "Section 1 - Phone", "Section 1 - Mobile", "Section 1 - Pager", "Section 1 - Fax", "Section 1 - Company", "Section 1 - Title", "Section 1 - Other", "Section 1 - Address", "Section 2 - Description", "Section 2 - Email", "Section 2 - IM", "Section 2 - Phone", "Section 2 - Mobile", "Section 2 - Pager", "Section 2 - Fax", "Section 2 - Company", "Section 2 - Title", "Section 2 - Other", "Section 2 - Address"}
set exportedFile to (path to desktop as string) & "Gmail Upload.csv"
set indexLine to ""
set elementsCount to count of gmailElements
repeat with loopVar from 1 to elementsCount
set indexLine to indexLine & item loopVar of gmailElements & separator
end repeat
set indexLine to text 1 thru -2 of indexLine
tell application "Address Book"
--try
open for access file exportedFile with write permission
write indexLine & return to alias exportedFile
repeat with loopVar from 1 to (get count of every person)
set thisRecord to person loopVar
try -- name
-- this method does not fail if text is already plain
set {text:result} to (name of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to the result
try -- primary email
set {text:result} to (value of email 1 of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
-- the "notes" field cannot be deleted, so lets use it for something informative like nickname
try
set {text:result} to (nickname of thisRecord)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & result
(* set {text:notes} to (note of thisRecord as string) -- note
if notes is "missing value" then set notes to "" *)
try -- description
set {text:result} to (value of related name 1 of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
try -- alt email
set {text:result} to (value of email 2 of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
try -- AIM
set {text:result} to (value of AIM Handle 1 of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
try -- phone 1 (same as phone)
set {text:result} to (value of phone 1 of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
try -- phone mobile
set {text:result} to (value of phone 2 of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
try -- pager
set {text:result} to (value of phone 3 of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
try -- FAX
set {text:result} to (value of phone 4 of thisRecord as string)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
if company of thisRecord is true then -- company
-- set {text:result} to (name of thisRecord)
"company"
else
end if
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
try -- city
set {text:result} to (city of address 1 of thisRecord)
on error
end try
set csvLine to csvLine & separator & the result
-- -- skip title as I do not use them
-- set csvLine to csvLine & separator
-- try -- Other field will be URL
-- set {text:result} to (value of url of thisRecord)
-- on error
-- end try
-- set csvLine to csvLine & separator --& the result (error, commas in Google Maps URLs need to be escaped)
write («class ktxt» of ((csvLine as string) as record)) & return to alias exportedFile
-- write csvLine & return to alias exportedFile
end repeat
-- on error
-- close access file exportedFile
-- end try
close access file exportedFile
end tell
beep
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Mail thinks I am a different card in Address Book

For a couple of days now, when I receive new mail, Mail displays the name from a different card in the address book in the "To" section. It should recognize "my card" from the address book, but is picking up my entry for my AAA membership card in address book.
Anyone know of a way to unconfuse Mail on this point?
Thanks much! Mary-Chicago

It shows "AAA" and it shows my e-mail address correctly....and when I select Open in Address Book, it takes me to the AAA card.....AHA! Thank you for leading me to figuring this out!
In my address book card for AAA, I made 2 custom entries....I am tracking both AAA memberships, for myself and my daughter. I am using 2 of my e-mail addresses to do this, so in my AAA address book card, I listed these 2 accounts with reminders of which e-mail I am using for each of us. Mail FOUND the e-mail address on this AAA address book card and since that e-mail is associated with my Mail account, it apparently adopted this card as me for incoming mail. As soon as I adjusted this on the AAA card to be a hint rather than the actual e-mail address, the problem was immediately fixed in Mail!
Thanks so much for helping me find this.....was a strange one.

Separate address book for my wife and I

I reently switched to Mac and this is driving me crazy. I would like to keep our computer under one user so we don't have to switch user profiles to access her address book or if I update and address in my book, it doesn't get updated in hers. But, when I go to address e-mails I don't want her huge list of names being auto-suggested and me having to sift through all of her addresses in order to find the people I want to address the email to. The question: Is there a way to keep all of our addresses in one address book (one user profile), but when I am logged into my mail, Mail knows to only look in MY address group for the email addresses I specify, instead of pulling up my wife's rediculous sized (and often unorganized) bunch of addresses. I don't want to accidentally slip up with the arrow keys and add one of her recipients to an outgoing email. Sometimes my wife's friends wouldn't appreciate emails that guys send to each other if you know what I mean...
Thanks for any help...and please tell me there is a way to separate my wifes email address book from mine...please tell me Mac thought of this.
PS I've tried the whole 2 user profiles thing and the idea of seperate address books for updating sake and other reasons, I'd like to try the single profile thing.

I thought Mac would be better with their mail client than this.
But Mail has nothing to do with this at all. Address Book is a completely separate application, and it's that way for good reason; it's not merely a whim.
I can't imagine what Mac is thinking that if a family of 5 uses the family computer, that all 5 people's email addresses clog up the search for the person writing the email at the time.
Each user has a separate Address Book (and other applications like Mail and Safari) to keep that exact scenario from happening, as well as to keep people out of each other's accounts so things don't go missing, private emails aren't being read by overly curious people, and so your account doesn't get screwed up by someone else playing with things they shouldn't be touching.
Are there any third party apps or plugins I can download in order to tell Mail that when I am in my account to only search for the contacts in a certain group that I create?
Sorry, but there's no such things available. It would be impossible for your Mac to become sentient and know what you created versus someone else creating.

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?

If you've updated the account to have the correct email email address on the other devices tap on the old id id in Settings > iTunes & App Store and log out of it and then log back in with the updated version of the account so as to 'refresh' the account on them.

Contact photos are not showing up in Mail message list, even though the message will link to the contact card in Address Book with the photo in it.

I'm using Mail 5.3 and Address Book 6.1.3 on X 10.7.5. I want my contact photos to show up in the message list on Mail, but only some of them do, even though the message will link to the contact card in Address Book with the photo in it. I've even tried replacing a photo that doesn't show up with a photo that does show up for a different contact but no luck. I am syncing to one other Mac, an iPhone and an iPad via iCloud.

I'm using Mail 5.3 and Address Book 6.1.3 on X 10.7.5. I want my contact photos to show up in the message list on Mail, but only some of them do, even though the message will link to the contact card in Address Book with the photo in it. I've even tried replacing a photo that doesn't show up with a photo that does show up for a different contact but no luck. I am syncing to one other Mac, an iPhone and an iPad via iCloud.

Sync Mac Address Book - multiple Google accounts

I hope this is the right place for this question.
I understand that you can sync the Mac Address Book with Google accounts, but is there a way to sync that Mac Address Book with MULTIPLE Google accounts.
Our scenario is that we have one iMac as our main database, and want to sync it to mine, and my wifes Google account.
Thanks for any help.

I have found a program called Spanning Sync
http://spanningsync.com/
It allows for multiple Google syncing

My wife has iCloud on our computer and I want to break out and create my own account. Once I build the account how do I copy the address book from her account into mine?

my wife has icloud on our computer and I want to break out and create my own icloud account. I've built the account but can't figure out how to COPY our joint address book onto my account so I can then weed out my own addresses. Please help!

Welcome to the Apple Community.
When you log out of the joint account, you should be asked if you want to keep the contacts, you do. When you log into your new account you should be asked if you want to merge contacts, you do.
If you have already signed into your new account and not taken these options, the simplest thing to do might be to add your wife's account back as a secondary account in system preferences > mail, contacts & calendars. In groups in address book you can drag contacts from your wife's contacts onto your contact group to copy them.

How do I create a duplicate card in Address Book?

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.
Thanks.
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!
David

Creating 2 address books for different users?

my wife and I don't want to login as separate users on the powerbook, but we do want to be able to import and synchronise our address books from our palm PDAs and keep the addresses separate. So far it seems that we would merge the addresses into the "all" group the first time we synch. Is there a way to set up 2 different users?
your help appreciated to keep my partner happy!!

No there isn't.
In order to do so, you must create a login user account for your wife. She will have you own Home folder/directory which will include her Address Book contacts, email account or accounts in Mail, etc.
You can enable Fast User Switching which makes the process of switching between user accounts a fast and easy process.

"Home Page" Missing in New Card in Address Book 3.1.2 - and can't add field

i have been using Address Book for several years and 292 cards created. many of them have "home page" URL's that are accessible in Safari. brilliant. nice work Apple.
however, i have just tried to make a NEW CARD and find that no "home page" field is being offered for population. puzzling.
if i go to Card > Add Field > the dropdown presents all the possible default fields available. those that are currently in the card are greyed out, those that may be added are black and selectable.
Home Page is greyed out and unselectable despite it not being currently available in the new card i have just created and attempted to populate.
what the heck is going on here?? it has obviosly worked correctly in the past, i have at least 90 cards with URLs in them.

Is it possible that you've altered the template so that home page is a default? (I.e., it's already on the card) That would cause it to gray out. I was just having a similar problem in trying to Add Field... and finally, the penny dropped that the field was already there, just not where I was looking.
I apologize if this seems obvious or dumb, but I'm reasonably bright and yet it wasn't obvious enough to keep me from hunting around for five minutes with furrowed brow.
Best,

Using Address Book for mailing labels

I know how to use the address book for mailing labels, but when I went to print I had children's names appear on the labels. Is there a way to request souces, but not children. In other words can you select specific information to appear on the labels. Or do you have to go into address book and delete the kids names. Any advice would be great.

There are several 3rd-party applications which will print mailing labels from your address book data and give you greater control of what is printed.
Roll Call Directory and Imprint have both been mentioned.
I don't know how they handle linked cards, so if you try either you might let us know.
AK

Address books for another user sharing my computer for now

At this time I am sharing this computer with one other person ..I have set up and named another address book for them.
Is there a way that their email addresses do not get added too mine.. is there a setting where we can set it up so each one has there emails being added to their own addy book.. At the moment there emails are being added too mine... this problem will be ongoing fpr a period of time....
Thank you in advance. :)

''re: At this time I am sharing this computer with one other person .''
Usually, when people share a computer, each user has their own User Account which they logon using a password.
This means that Thunderbird then runs in that User Account and creates a profile in that User Account which holds all the Profile data, emails, passwords, address books etc specifically for that users email address mail accounts.
So then no one can read each others emails nor access other peoples passwords and they can use their own address books.
So if you are sharing a computer and sharing a Profile, then it is advisable that you do not have any stored / remembered passwords, unless that person is eg: spouse and you do not mind them having full access to all your personal stuff.
You have a couple of Options:
'''1.''' Create User Accounts on your computer so that each user has their own User Account, Create a Thunderbird Profile folder and set up mail accounts storing personal emails and address books.
This is the only method offering best security.
'''2. ''' Create another Profile for the other person. then create mail account for that Profile. This will then have it's own folders, address book.
Use Profile Manager to create another Profile.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
Make sure to uncheck the box 'Don't ask at startup' to force it to ask which Profile to use.
Any user can still access any profile.
'''3. ''' In current situation.
Stop auto saving outgoing email addresses that are not in the address books as this uses only one setting per Profile.
Tools > Options > Composition > Addressing tab
uncheck: 'Automatically add outgoing email addresses to my'
click on OK
Then you would need to use an Addon in order to be able to select a specific address book when you wish to add the email address/contact to an address book. At the moment, if you click on the FROM header email address or right click and select 'Add to address book', this adds to the default address book called 'Personal Address Book'. This you cannot change because you are using the same User account and Profile.
But with the addon 'MorefunctionforAddressBook'
Right click on eg: From header and choose > Save recipients addresses' > as Contacts
This allows you to select the address book you require.
Addon 'MorefunctionforAddressBook':
* https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
Download to desktop.
In Thunderbird:
Tools > Addons
Clickon on gear wheel icon and select : Install addon from file;
locate file you downloaded and click on Open
You may need to restart Thunderbird.

Company's Address Book for external contacts

Hi all,
I'm currently deploying a new Exchange 2013 in a company who had a different email system, so far.
One of the achievement would be to have an address book for external names (so, not in AD) shared within the company but managed only by a restrict number of people.
As example, list of vendors contact. The list should be available read only for everyone, but only the IT Infrastructure and few other people in the management should be able to add/remove/change the items.
Whato would be, in your opinion, the best solution to achieve that?
I was thinking using Public Folder. Create a sub-PF of contact objects and restrict permission accordingly. The only issue I can see, so far, is that seems not possible grant permission on a group basis to PF. Am I missing something here? It's the first
time I'm working with PF in several years :)
However, if there's a different solution you may advice, I'm all ears.
Any suggestion would be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance to everyone.
Alessandro.

I was able to solve this myself.
Security groups has to be enabled on Exchange before being used to assign permission to PFs:
Enable-DistributionGroup -identity <SecurityGroup>
Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -User "<SecurityGroup>" -AccessRights
'<AccessLevel>'
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A.

Purchased the gift card in my account and introduced new, but asked me to enter the account once again I do not remember which email account is not recorded it, but I have the card number and PIN for my account Can you help me?

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"my card" in address book for system accounts

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