Old Email Contacts v Address Book...

When I begin typing the name of a contact in the email address bar, a range of possible contacts appear, including old email addresses even though I have erased old addresses from my address book...? Sometimes I don't notice and my mail goes to an 'old address' for my contsct instead of the new one. How can I erase old addresses from Mail please?

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Changing email of a contact in address book

Hey guys,
I want to change the email of a contact in address book.
my code is as follow.
but somehow it doesnt work.
do you know why?
- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:
(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker
shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person {
CFErrorRef anError = NULL;
ABMultiValueRef email = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);
NSString *personEmail = [conversationHistory getReceiver];
ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty, email, &anError);
CFRelease(email);
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
return NO;

Congrats on finding a solution, David!
Actually the code you posted would've worked except that 'multi' isn't mutable. To fix that code, just make a mutable copy before adding the "other" email info:
- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:
(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker
shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person {
CFErrorRef anError = NULL;
ABMultiValueRef multi = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty);
ABMutableMultiValueRef mutableMulti = ABMultiValueCreateMutableCopy(multi); // <-- add
ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(mutableMulti, @"[email protected]", kABOtherLabel, NULL);
ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty, mutableMulti, &anError);
ABAddressBookSave(peoplePicker.addressBook, &anError);
CFRelease(multi);
CFRelease(mutableMulti);
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
return NO;
- Ray

I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book. I got Norton Internet Security for Mac, and now my Mac is running slow, with way too many spinning beach balls of death. Was it a mistake to install Norton?

I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book. I got Norton Internet Security for Mac, and now my Mac is running slow, with way too many spinning beach balls of death. Was it a mistake to install Norton?

yankeecat wrote:
I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book.
There is no such Trojan or other malware known today that will do that using OS X nor has there ever been one. The most probable explanation is that somebody hacked into your e-mail account on the server, so you should change that password to something stronger right away. If it had come from your Mac then there would almost certainly be copies of those messages in your Sent Mail mailbox.

How can I email a group list from my contacts/Mac address book?

I love the Apple address book for making media lists for my PR business because it enables me to add dates and actions. But when a client wants to see the list via email, I'm flummoxed. I've been rewriting as a Word document, but that eliminates the convenience of Address Book. I could print, scan, and send,but that's cumbersome. If we can share a contact, why can't we share a Group list? Or, am I missing something simple?
Thanks!

Howdy J-carolyn9,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Take a look at the article linked below, it’ll walk you through the process of printing a group of contacts from Address Book on your Mac.
Mac Basics: Address Book - Apple Support
If you'd like a tangible address book, print out a pocket-sized version of Address Book. Select the names that you want to include from the contacts list, or select a group, and choose Print from the File menu. Click Show Details, and choose Pocket Address Book from the Style pop-up menu, select any other options you want, and click Print.
Ciao,
-Jason

Keep a list of email addresses, w/out making contacts in Address Book?

Hi everyone. I frequenly send out emails to a long list (~30-40) of email addresses. I do not know the names of every person on the list, nor do I wish to make many new contacts in Address Book. Is there a way to simply keep that list of addresses as an email group, without having to add new contacts for each email address?
For now, I'm copying and pasting the list from TextEdit into the "To:" box. It works well enough, but I'd like to streamline the process. Thanks in advance!

Hi Alexander.
If I’ve understood it correctly, you could just select a message previously sent to that list, then do Message > Send Again and change everything except the To header. The name of the Send Again command is actually a misnomer, as it doesn't really cause anything to be sent. It just creates a draft copy of the selected message which you can then modify and send like you would do with any other message.

Using main email address of contacts inside Address Book with Mail 3.5

Hi all,
I am organizing a christmas dinner for 20th of December and I have inside address book a group called dinner. I have got 100 contacts and some of them have two email addresses. Some people have told me to send all the information to personal addresses. So when I create the email and call address book from the email message, it let me choose between both email addresses with a blue line. This choice is kept for next time and when I send the email message works but some people is still receiving the mail at the office. I wonder... how can I select the main email address for next time so I would only need moving the "dinner group icon" over the recipient line and that´s all?. Does anybody knows the way of doing that?
Regards,

If you selected their home email address and some say they get it at their work email, then it would seem that they are forwarding their email to their work address. If that's the case, there's nothing you can do about that.
You could always duplicate the group with a different name (Dinner work, for example) and remove their personal email addresses from the contacts in the group, as well as removing the work addresses from the original group.
Mulder

Using O2M I imported my contacts into Address Book. However upon exiting the contacts are not saved. This is on a new Macbook Pro Lion OS. How does one save the newly imported contacts?

Using the program O2M I successfully imported emails from Outlook 2003 to Mail, and calendar events to iCal. However, repeated attempts to import contacts to Address Book have failed. The contacts appear to import, but when I close Address Book and reopen it, the contacts are gone. I tried File-Save, but Save is greyed out. This is a new Macbook Pro with the latest Lion OS. I wonder if O2M has not been updated to work with Lion. Or is there something I am overlooking in the import process?

Hi Denisej and others who have encountered the same problem,
I tried your work around. Unfortunately it did not work out for me because in my contacts there are an unknown number that still "refused" to be imported like that. When such a contact was in the group I selected for import the whole lot would be lost again after re-opening Address Book. Finally that meant that I had to import each contact one-by-one, each time with the need to close down Address Book. A job to go nuts and end up with a mouse injury. So I decided to use the Migration Assistant that Lion now offers
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3284404
together with Windows Migration Assitant on my old PC. Obviously both Mac and PC have to be on the same network. For this I did not need to do anything special. Both make use of the same router and that is apparently sufficient. When migrating the contacts Lion creates a new account, so you need to log in to that new account to see your migrated contacts. I used the Export Address Book Archive function in the Address Book menu to copy the lot to my own Apple account. I got rid of the new account and I was finally where I wanted to be in the first place.
Kees

Unable to create or edit AD (mail) contacts in address book

Hi!
I recently imported quite a list of contacts from an old CRM application into Exchange. All entries are nicely created in domain.local\company\location\Contacts. All fields are visible in Outlook under All Address Lists\All Contacts.
As we have a small company, just a few users, I want to give most of them the rights to create and update entries in the All Contacts folder, just as they were used to in the old app.
I started by creating role groups following this article:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/08/07/creating-rbac-role-to-delegate-contact-management.aspx
I created an Admin Role group named Contact Administration, which contains the required Members, and I assigned two role groups to this group: Contact_Management, which is based on the Mail Recipient Creation parent group, and Contact_Management_2,
which is based on the Mail Recipient parent group. The Write Scope is: domain.local\company\location\Contacts.
Because this didn't result in anyone being able to update the contacts, I also created a group in Active Directory and delegated control on the contacts OU to this group, even though I think this doesn't add to the desired result (as it indeed didn't).
What am I missing here? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Hi
As per the information and details provided by you, to create or edit a mail contact in address book, please follow these steps: -
Use the Shell to create a contact
This example creates mail contact for Debra Garcia in Exchange Server 2013
New-MailContact -Name "Debra Garcia" -ExternalEmailAddress [email protected] -OrganizationalUnit Users
This example creates a mail contact for Alan Shen in Exchange online.
New-MailContact -Name "Alan Shen" -ExternalEmailAddress [email protected]
3.     This example mail-enables an existing contact named Karen Toh in Exchange Server 2013.
Enable-MailContact -Identity "Karen Toh" -ExternalEmailAddress [email protected]
To add a contact: -
You can use the EAC to change selected properties for multiple mail contacts. When you select two or more mail contacts from the contacts lit in the EAC, the properties that can be bulk edited are displayed in the Details pane. When you change one of these properties, the change applies to all selected recipients.
When you bulk edit mail contacts, you can change the following properties areas: -
·        Contact Information: - Change shared properties such as street, postal code, and city name.
·        Organization: - Change shared properties such as department name, company name, and the manager that the selected mail contact or mail users report to.
I hope this information will be helpful for you.
Thanks and regards
Shweta@G

No contacts in address book, can not find address book anymore

I was trying to switch default email accounts, Hughes.net was the default and Yahoo the secondary and I wanted to swap these around as I am no longer using Hughes net.
In doing so I lost all email folders and address books. I have rebuilt the folders but now I see that I have no address book in either accounts.
Are they gone for good?
Thanks.
Jeff

There are two default address books in Thunderbird. Both of these address books can be copy pasted between mail accounts.
''Personal Address Book'' is called '''abook.mab'''
''Collected Addresses '' is called '''history.mab'''
These are stored in your Profile folder in the mail account name. But it would need your old mail account to be intact in order to copy anything from it to another mail account.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
* C:\Users\Windows user name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\Profile name\ mail account name
The AppData folder is folder is a hidden folder; to show hidden folders, open a Windows Explorer window and choose "Organize → Folder and Search Options → Folder Options → View (tab) → Show hidden files and folders".
If your original mail account is still there: Profiles\Mail\mail account name
You could simply recover it. Info here:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_deleted_mail_accounts
Remember, when performing any changes in Profiles folder, Thunderbird must be closed first.

IPhone 3G doesn't pick up all the contacts in Address Book

I just laboriously entered a bunch of new contacts in Address Book. When I sync to iPhone with iTunes (7.7), most of them show up as expected. But about 30% of them are just not there. No entry at all on the phone, but I can still see them plain as day in Address Book. I tried setting the "Replace information on this iPhone" "Contacts" check box in iTunes and re-synching, with the same effect. From Address Book, I don't see anything particularly in common between the missing names (they mostly have both a phone number and an email just like the many contacts that made it OK). Any ideas?

Huh, well I just poked around in Address Book (on the Mac) for a while, and it (then) became convinced that it was time for a save. So I did (File->Save) And then the synch found the rest. So odd, though. I know that one of the contacts missing was the first one I entered! Between this and very funky behavior after importing vCard files from google (which was so bad I had to wipe the whole thing out), I can't say I'm so impressed with Address Book.

IPhone not syncing Contacts to Address Book

I noticed that my iPhone (both original iPhone and iPhone 3G) was not syncing contacts with Address Book. I tried to Reset Sync History in iSync, and when I have tried to replace the contacts on iPhone under the Advanced options, I lose all my contacts on the iPhone!
The only way to get some contacts back is restoring from backup, but unfortunately as iTunes performs a backup of the iPhone on sync, these backups also have no contacts! I have an old backup that fortunately has not been overwritten but the contact list is a bit out of date.
Address Book on the Mac seems to be fine and this is backed up.
It would appear that iTunes has somehow lost its "connection" to Address Book, which is why when I chose to replace the Contacts on the iPhone with the information on the computer I lost them all!
iCal still seems to sync fine with Calendar.
Can I re-link Address Book with iTunes?

Jason L wrote:
Hey lim_my,
Are contacts syncing with MobileMe or any other applications?
I don't have MobileMe.
Now you mention it, Address Book did not appear to even update if I updated a contact in Mail.
Can you sync contacts in another User account? to create another user account goto System Preferences> Accounts> click the lock to make changes> click the + button to add another user account.
Yes I can! I only tried to sync Contacts, leaving all other options i.e Calendars Bookmarks Ringtones Music Videos Applications untouched, and now I have some test Contacts on the iPhone.
You can try Resetting the SyncServices folder, Just follow the steps in this article to stop the service and then delete the SyncServices folder in your user library.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627
I had tried this before, within iSync, which did not work. I then tried the command in Terminal as per the above link, then went and deleted the /user/Library/ Sync Services folder. Still no joy.
So it looks as though I have a broken Address Book rather than iTunes. Should I post this in the OS X Leopard section of Discussions?

Unable to send mail to importet contacts via address book

Hi all,
I've searched the web without finding a solution to my issue with one of my users, so I had to create my own thread.
My issue is that one of my newly employed users importet a large amount of contacts (over 3000) from his previous workplace (which worked after a little trouble via manually importing a .pst file), but when he tries to add contacts to a mail via address
book and send the mail, he receives a mail back with "the following recipient(s) cannot be reached"
I can resolve the issue by copying the mail address, under the contacts profile, and pasting it in the "Email" field, basically retyping the same mail. The mail will then go through without any return mail stating the above error. I could do the
same for all 3000 contacts, BUT that is a lot of time needed, which I would really like to avoid.
We are running Exchange 2010 and Office 2013.
I'm hoping for a fix from one of the clever minds in here!
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Does the issue happen when sending mails to all these 3000 contacts? Please send test message by adding other contacts to a mail via Contacts in Address Book to check whether the issue can be reproduced.
Please make sure the latest patches and service packs are installed for your Outlook 2013. Additionally, please try the following test to narrow down the issue:
1. Please switch to People panel in Outlook, click a imported contact, click Email in HOME tab. Then send a message to check whether this message can be sent successfully.
2. Please open the Contact PST file in Outlook instead of import PST file. Then do step 1 to send test message and check whether the issue persists.
If the issue doesn’t happen when sending message to contacts in opened PST file, it indicates the Contacts which is saved in the PST file should be correct. The issue may be related to Contact resolved in Outlook client. Please create a new Outlook contact
or create a new Outlook profile to have a try.
Regards,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

Shared mailbox contacts to Address Book

Hi all
We have recently migrated to an Exchange 2010 environment, our clients using Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2010.
We have a large number of shared mailboxes within our organisation that contain their own contacts lists. The shared mailbox is added as as additional mailbox to the users' own profile as they have been delegated full access to manage
and maintain all items.
The issue we are having is trying to get the contacts list on the shared mailbox to show up in the users address book when sending an email.
I have had a search on the net for an answer to this and the only thing I can get to work to is creating a new profile for the shared mailbox and renaming the contacts as discussed in the following thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/thread/62befbae-ceaa-482b-b450-e448f8d1a265
The issue with this however is that it only seems to temporarily work - after closing the profile for the shared mailbox and opening the user profile it will only appear in the address book for the first time; after closing and reopening Outlook
the contacts list for the shared mailbox disappears.
Even if we did get this method to work every time, it seems a little long winded. Some shared mailboxes are used by about 10 different users and having to get them to create a new profile for the shared mailbox seems a little full on just to get
the contacts list to show up in their address book.
Other threads on the net have suggested just going into the properties of the Contact item on the shared mailbox and ticking the "Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book". The issue I am having is that the there is no such tick box. In fact the
"Outlook Address Book" tab isn't even there. The users' have been given full control of the contacts as they are able to create/modify/delete contacts when they actually select the contact objects from the shared mailbox.
We have just moved from an Oracle mail environment where this was possible and so would like to know if sharing contacts is a supported feature of Exchange 2010/Outlook. If so, how?
Cheers
Brady

hi,
Outlook 2007, Exchange 2007, Win 7
i have followed all the solutions that given below but none seem to work. all i want is to show the shared mailbox contacts in my addressbook.
I do not want to login to windows using shared mailbox credentials to access contacts.
i dont no want to copy the or export contacts over.
i have full access to the mailbox. when i click New to send a new email. under my address book. I can see my contacts and i would love to see my shared email inbox contacts too. Till now i have come across multiple solutions and not even one seems to work. let
me see if someone is that smart who can give a solution that works.
I have also added shared mailbox profile in my outlook and i have given full access as the Author to the contacts folder of the shared mailbox. some say it cant be done. I am pretty sure it can be.

Importing contacts to Address book (organized)

Hello,
Someone was helpful awhile back and told me that if I selected all emails in Mac Mail (within a folder), I could send them to address book. Basically I want to send all contacts from a folder in Mac Mail over to address book in an organized fashion. I did the export but now I don't know how to find the new contacts in address book. It just lumped in the new contacts with the others....
Is there a way to organize address book by date added (contacts)? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? I tried dragging over the emails into a group folder in address book but that didn't work.... Thanks!

Smart folders aren't real folders, just sort of Aliases that contain certain criteria in th whole thing.
Like you could make a Smart folder that containd names that had b in the name, that fake folder when clicked on would look like it cantain those that have b in the name, but just really points to only those.
Experiment a bit with them, you can delete them without alarm because it's just a separate DB of them.

All my contacts in Address Book suddenly vanished

Hi,
I was updating a contact in Address Book, (usual story, new address and email address arrived in a Christmas card), and when I clicked on the 'save' button my address book window suddeny lost all it's data. The page I was updating, which had previously been showing the contact details, now showed as 'No card selected' And at the bottom of the window it said '0 cards'
All my groups were showing as having nothing in them either.
Any ideas how I might get all my contact data back, please?
(I have a feeling that the data is there somewhere, because if I start to write a new email message auto-complete remembers and fills in the address. (Which it gets from address book, doesn't it?)

Update:
I have used Time Machine to replace the Address Book app with the app that was running satisfactorily a few hours ago, but it has made no difference whatever. I still have a completely blank book.
Is there a data file somewhere I could re-load using Time Machine?

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