Nicknames in Address Book

I was wondering if there was a way to have the "nicknames" in Address Book be used as the default name for the entry? My problem is that when I use iSync to synchronize my address book to my cell phone, it pulls the first and last name of the person from my contact, when I would prefer that their entry be their nickname that I have entered in Address Book. Additionally, when I type the nickname in Mail when composing a new message, it doesn't recognize the name from my Address Book and so doesn't grab the e-mail of that person. Does anyone know of a way to make this work? Thanks!

I was wondering this too... it seems like the only options are to have the person's nickname in the first name field and put the full name in the notes field, or to put the full name in the prefix, first, middle, last, suffix fields and the nickname in the nickname field. Some problems with the latter are that the full name appears in the name field in Address Book, is the one that must be typed in Mail, and is the one displayed in iChat.

Similar Messages

Smartlist field 'nickname' in address book

Does anybody know how to add the 'nickname' field to the smartlists in address book:
contains cards wich match the following:
'nickname ' ....for example 'is set'.

I don't believe you can.
AK

How did Nickname field in Address Book get filled in?

I went to send an email to myself (I send to-do lists to myself because I forget everything ) from my imac and when I typed in my name, I noticed that in front of all of my email addresses, the label "Princess" was showing up. I had NEVER seen this before and this is NOT a nickname that I use for myself EVER. I started to get kind of nervous that anybody who sends me an email or gets an email from me is seeing this (corny) nickname. I could not understand where it came from. I send emails to myself quite often and this was the first time I had seen this.
I went into my Address Book and sure enough under my name, there was a field I had never even known existed, "Nickname". It somehow filled in with "Princess". How the heck did this happen? The only other person with access to my imac is my husband and he is not imac savvy, he definitely didn't do it. I started to get nervous that something was hacked, I just really don't know how something like that could happen.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Thanks,
Kate
(definitely not a princess)

That is weird...someone had to have put it there; either that, or Apple knows something about you and automatically populated that field.
If you are worried someone has unauthorized access to your account, though, you can just change the password and security questions. I try to change my password and questions at least once a year even if I don't suspect any unauthorized access.
You can also remove the nickname field entirely under Contacts' preferences.

Why does my Verizon email address book use 'Nickname' as key sorting field ?

I'm a new Verizon email user and have just created my Verizon email address book from my Microsoft Office Outlook (not Outlook Express) Contacts file, using the TrueAssistant application that Verizon provides for folks moving to Verizon from another email ISP. Earlier, a Verizon Tech Support chat-line staffer assured me it was NOT possible to move my email contacts from Office to the Verizon address book; I guess he wasn't familiar with TrueAssistant. :-(
The conversion seemed to go over fine, but when I then looked at my newly-created Verizon address book, in every case the last name of each contact was stored in the 'Nickname' field , and the first name was completely missing. When I manually replaced some of the first names in their proper fields and removed the nicknames, the application didn't know what to do with the contact.
Has anyone else had this problem in using TrueAssistant to move contacts from Outlook into Verzon's email address book?
Is it even possible to see both the first and last names in the display of the Contacts file (or any sub-Group)? And if so, how do I do it? I don't see any way to specify how I want to display t address book entries. Would appreciate some help. Thanks and Happy New Year!
Shaynemdank
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I've never used the TrueSwitch software, but I've never had to. You can export your contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, etc. into a .csv file and import them directly to your verizon.net account. If you log into your verizon.net account and go to your contacts list there's an Import Contacts button.
If you need any assistance with that process let me know, I can try to provide a step-by-step for your client.
As for sorting by name, this functionality does not appear to be available in the "Basic Interface" of Verizon's webmail. Switching to the "Rich Interface" causes the name to be displayed in a Last, First format and sorting by name is an option.
Hope this helps!
If a forum member gives an answer you like, give them the Kudos they deserve. If a member gives you the answer to your question, mark the answer as Accepted Solution so others can see the solution to the problem.
"All knowledge is worth having."

Address Book, Spotlight ERRORS!

Hello members and outside viewers,
These are software related issues, but I think of might be Mac Pro specific. I migrated everything from a G5 some time ago, but these issues occured in the near past.
First: My Address Book behaves very strange.
After startup, the window freezes. Only if I minimize and click again, works OK. I began used to it, BUT
Since yesterday, Addresses gone, disappeared from every entry.
Under Preferences » Address Format is uneditable, it has "Item3" in it, unclickable drop down menu.
Under Preferences »Template » Add Field several options are grey: "Phone", "Email", "Related Names", "Instant Messaging", "Address".
Please can you help me! I deleted both plist files from Preferences folder and deleted the whole folder under Application Support/AddressBook, also reinstalled Address Book from Leopard DVD, but nothing helped so far.
Second thing: when I invoke Spotlight, and start typing after 2-3 seconds, it quits and also Dock unusable, restarts automatically. Spotlight is useless, it behaves every time like this. Spotlight in Finder windows are OK, system-wide menubar has this error. Also, it was suddenly gone wrong like Address Book. Can I think of some virus?
P.S. (off topic), might helpful to share: very frustating, that registering to Discussions took me over an hour.
With Safari 4.03 the "Name" and "AppleID" are blank fields on "Create New User Account", therefore impossible to proceed. ( Error: invalid AppleID. Please login with a different AppleID )
With Firefox you can actually see them, but "?" instead of accounted letters.
After changing My Info, I finally realised that Apple ID should be complete e-mail address.
That means my "visionfresh" account is totally different from "[email protected]" (or me.com, whatever..)
Not to mention that I created a new Apple ID, that was also not working.
Bottom line: my "[email protected]" account is working also in Safari after editing my Name (replace accented characters), but I could not proceed with the nickname "visionfresh", I chose "matyashuszar".

{quote:title=Console.App shows this when starting Address Book}
2009.09.03. 18:45:48 Mail[228] SyncServices[ISyncSessionDriver]: Caught top level exception: I/O error for database at /Users/matyashuszar/Library/Mail/AvailableFeeds. SQLite error code:1, 'SQL logic error or missing database' Stack trace: (0x91ffcfeb 0x966c4e3b 0x92071f1a 0x920713f8 0x9206d18b 0x920a2e40 0x92097c2d 0x920977da 0x92077001 0x38767c 0x38758d 0x38751a 0x92061302 0x920a7260 0x920a6ad4 0x920a67ff 0x920633c8 0x92062f99 0x92061ea0 0x387303 0x38748e 0x1627da55 0x94ddd1e8 0x94dc923d 0x94e632cb 0x904d1dfd 0x904d19a4 0x95d56155 0x95d56012)
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] -[ABAddressBook setDefaultCountryCode:] called with unknown country code 'us'
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] NSScanner: nil string argument
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
{quote}
Please help what to to do!

Address Book behaves very strange

Hello members and outside viewers,
First thing: My Address Book behaves very strange.
- After startup, the window freezes. Only if I minimize and click again, works OK. I began used to it, BUT
- Since yesterday, Addresses gone, disappeared from every entry.
- Under Preferences » Address Format is uneditable, it has "Item3" in it, unclickable drop down menu.
- Under Preferences »Template » Add Field several options are grey: "Phone", "Email", "Related Names", "Instant Messaging", "Address".
Please can you help me! I deleted both plist files from Preferences folder and deleted the whole folder under Application Support/AddressBook, also reinstalled Address Book from Leopard DVD, but nothing helped so far.
Second thing: when I invoke Spotlight, and start typing after 2-3 seconds, it quits and also Dock unusable, restarts automatically. Spotlight is useless, it behaves every time like this. Spotlight in Finder windows are OK, system-wide menubar has this error. Also, it was suddenly gone wrong like Address Book. Can I think of some virus?
P.S. (off topic), might helpful to share: very frustating, that registering to Discussions took me over an hour.
- With Safari 4.03 the "Name" and "AppleID" are blank fields on "Create New User Account", therefore impossible to proceed. ( Error: invalid AppleID. Please login with a different AppleID )
- With Firefox you can actually see them, but "?" instead of accounted letters.
- After changing My Info, I finally realised that Apple ID should be complete e-mail address.
- That means my "visionfresh" account is totally different from "[email protected]" (or me.com, whatever..)
- Not to mention that I created a new Apple ID, that was also not working.
- Bottom line: my "[email protected]" account is working also in Safari after editing my Name (replace accented characters), but I could not proceed with the nickname "visionfresh", I chose "matyashuszar".

{quote:title=Console.App shows this when starting Address Book}
2009.09.03. 18:45:48 Mail[228] SyncServices[ISyncSessionDriver]: Caught top level exception: I/O error for database at /Users/matyashuszar/Library/Mail/AvailableFeeds. SQLite error code:1, 'SQL logic error or missing database' Stack trace: (0x91ffcfeb 0x966c4e3b 0x92071f1a 0x920713f8 0x9206d18b 0x920a2e40 0x92097c2d 0x920977da 0x92077001 0x38767c 0x38758d 0x38751a 0x92061302 0x920a7260 0x920a6ad4 0x920a67ff 0x920633c8 0x92062f99 0x92061ea0 0x387303 0x38748e 0x1627da55 0x94ddd1e8 0x94dc923d 0x94e632cb 0x904d1dfd 0x904d19a4 0x95d56155 0x95d56012)
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] -[ABAddressBook setDefaultCountryCode:] called with unknown country code 'us'
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] NSScanner: nil string argument
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
{quote}
Please help what to to do!

Address book multiple entries

What can I do about triplicate entries in my address book on the macbook? I don't have this problem with mh other devices.

Marc Charbonneau wrote:
> Our CIO wants a few address book entries that if chosen, will all
> send to the same account.
>
> Seems easy enough but I haven't found a way, without creating a new
> account that has some Forward or Delegate rule.
>
> Is there a nicer way to do it without having another real GW account
> created and using Rules?
>
> I was kind of hoping to just create an External User that simply
> points to the one account but it complains that that e-mail address
> already exists.
Why not using nick names ? The only downside is gw7 and earlier
nicknames don't show up in the address book. GW8 does show the
nicknames in the address book.
Cheers,
Edward

Multiple Address Book Entries

Hi
When I add a new contact into my address book on my MacBook Pro iCloud adds 20 - 30 copies of it onto the Contacts app on my iPhone!
Can anyone help me diagnose the problem please?
Thanks
David

Marc Charbonneau wrote:
> Our CIO wants a few address book entries that if chosen, will all
> send to the same account.
>
> Seems easy enough but I haven't found a way, without creating a new
> account that has some Forward or Delegate rule.
>
> Is there a nicer way to do it without having another real GW account
> created and using Rules?
>
> I was kind of hoping to just create an External User that simply
> points to the one account but it complains that that e-mail address
> already exists.
Why not using nick names ? The only downside is gw7 and earlier
nicknames don't show up in the address book. GW8 does show the
nicknames in the address book.
Cheers,
Edward

Multiple Address Book Entries that all send to the same GW account ?

Our CIO wants a few address book entries that if chosen, will all send to
the same account.
Seems easy enough but I haven't found a way, without creating a new account
that has some Forward or Delegate rule.
Is there a nicer way to do it without having another real GW account created
and using Rules?
I was kind of hoping to just create an External User that simply points to
the one account but it complains that that e-mail address already exists.
Thanks
Marc

Marc Charbonneau wrote:
> Our CIO wants a few address book entries that if chosen, will all
> send to the same account.
>
> Seems easy enough but I haven't found a way, without creating a new
> account that has some Forward or Delegate rule.
>
> Is there a nicer way to do it without having another real GW account
> created and using Rules?
>
> I was kind of hoping to just create an External User that simply
> points to the one account but it complains that that e-mail address
> already exists.
Why not using nick names ? The only downside is gw7 and earlier
nicknames don't show up in the address book. GW8 does show the
nicknames in the address book.
Cheers,
Edward

Address Book Wish List Additions???

As a long time Mac user I find Address Book extremely lame in that it lacks many helpful usability features that were standard in older third party contact managers. Ever since Now-Up-to-Date bought out and stupidly extinguished Touchbase/Datebook, Macheads have had to put up with less than optimal address book solutions. In the hope that Apple's AB developers peruse this forum once in a while, I'd like to start a wish list of features I'd like to see in a future version...please copy, append and post your suggestions to this list as well.
1. Selectable auto-capitalization with manual field override when in auto-cap mode.
2. Selectable auto-fill with manual field override
3. Ability to query contact database and to mark, unmark, select, sort, total and display contacts in printable listings. I still use my dinosaur Touchbase program in Classic to perform marketing studies on my business's house list. TB provides an elegant usability model.
4. Ability to save and edit custom list formats.
5. Selectable Alpha-tab A-Z index at top of contact window.
6. Ability to auto-dial numbers from contact window or menu bar.
7. Integration with Text Edit or ??? to create auto-letters.

Here's my 2 cents worth:
Allow users of Address Book to --
1. Auto select an address from Address Book by typing in a nickname associated with an Address Card. (i.e. "mom" or "gramps").
2. Set a preferred or default email address for cards in your "ALL" group, just like you can when you select "Edit Distribution List…" from the EDIT menu on a particular distribution group. (Kind of like how you set Favorites on the iPhone in the Phone application)

Address Book NOT accepting csv.txt file as import from EARTHLINK web mail

Greetings. Unsuccessful thus far in importing e-addresses from Earthlink Web Mail to MAC Address Book. Found preferences and saved Earthlink addresses as csv.txt file but AB rejected as not true csv. Apple suggested conversion to V cards but could not find that option in Earthlink-ville. Perused Allan's post on synching with Total Access but fear accidentally installing stuff on my MACbook Pro from that application that is unneccessary or will screw up my new MAC world. Although in the long run, having Web mail back up my MAC makes sense. (Work and husband remain PC/ XP.)
Any solutions you can offer will be much appreciated.
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Thanks again. Okay, I pasted a portion of the csv file . I might be mistaken here, but I don't think these are V card format and perhaps converting them to V cards is what I'd have to do. But I would need pretty explicit directions.
Regards,
Andrea
"First Name","Last Name","Middle Name","Name","Nickname","E-mail Address","E-mail 2 Address","E-mail 3 Address","Home Street","Home City","Home Postal Code","Home State","Home Country/Region","Home Phone","Home Fax","Mobile Phone","Personal Web Page","Business Street","Business City","Business Postal Code","Business State","Business Country/Region","Business Web Page","Business Phone","Business Fax","Pager","Company","Job Title","Department","Office Location","Notes"
"[email protected]","","","[email protected]","","[email protected]","","","","" ,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"Thomas","Brown","","Thomas Brown","","[email protected]","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""," ","","","","","","","","",""
"Bob","Nash","","Bob Nash","","[email protected]","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","", "","","","","","","","","",""

Address Book Wish List!

Unless it's already possible, anybody know if Apple ever plans on updating "Address Book" to enable the user to password protect an address book and to have multiple address books.... Having multiple sign-ins is not really a solution.
Thx
MBP 2ghz 1gig Mac OS X (10.4.8) 10+ yr. user and lovin it!

Here's my 2 cents worth:
Allow users of Address Book to --
1. Auto select an address from Address Book by typing in a nickname associated with an Address Card. (i.e. "mom" or "gramps").
2. Set a preferred or default email address for cards in your "ALL" group, just like you can when you select "Edit Distribution List…" from the EDIT menu on a particular distribution group. (Kind of like how you set Favorites on the iPhone in the Phone application)

Preference for not using middle names from address book in emails

I have quite a few contacts that I have their middle names in my address book. When I type their name in a new email, their full name is displayed in the "To" field. I don't want the middle name to show up in my outgoing emails. I also don't want to delete everyones middle name from my address book. Are there any preferences or plugins that allow this behavior?
I also have some contacts that I have nicknames for...the most glaringly obvious being "Mom" and "Dad." I don't want to send an email to my parents with their name in the "To" field. Is there a plugin or a preference for this as well

Greetings,
Sorry, but there's no way to do what you want. The only way to avoid using a middle name in the To: field is for you to delete that from your contact, and from the Previous Recipients list in Mail. The same would be true for those contacts where you have a nickname.
But ultimately, the name use by Mail and Address Book would be determined by the recipient when they send you an email; if they use their full name, that's what Address Book will change it to.

Any way of getting address book to have more fields by default?

I was a user of outlook for pc. The address book in that was amazing.
Name, job title, company, file as,
phone, business, home, mobile, fax, business fax,
business address, home, postal
email, website, im address,
notes section, nickname,
It had everything! is there any method of getting this using address book for mac? or do I have to use enorage?

Megabaz
Open AddressBook
Go to the AdressBook Menu and select Preferences
Second Tab there is Template, you can use this to add extra and various fields to become your default set-up.
Hope this helps
Regards
TD

Names change at random in address book

When I start up address book, sometimes the names have been changed. For instance, I only use first names in my book. My wife's name will change from "Rhonda (work)" to "((work) Rhonda (work))". Or a friend's name will change from "al" to "al al". Even when I receive email from someone in my address book, my own address appears as "gerry gerry" instead of "gerry". It doesn't effect every name, and seems to come and go at will. No matter how many times I fix all the names, it happens again, and again. I've changed which name position I fill out in address book, (first, or last, or nickname) it still continues to happen. I don't know what else to try. Other than the name thing, it seems to operate normally. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks Gerry Gerry (lol)
iMac 1.6 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

An alternative could be to zoom in on the screen. From this [page|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459] are the following shortcuts:
Keyboard shortcut Description
Option-Command-8 Turn on Zoom
Option-Command-+ (plus) Zoom in
Option-Command-- (minus) Zoom out
If I find a way to alter the font size I'll let you know

Nicknames in Address Book

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for