Problems with Reverting to an Address Book Backup

I keep my address book updated on my iMac at home that is running OS v10.6 Snow Leopard. At work, I am now using a G5 that is running OS v10.4 Tiger. I have created a +Backup of my Address Book+ at home and brought the .abbu file with me to work so that I could +Revert to an Address Book Backup+ on my G5.
I've done it twice already and I'm still missing vCards (mostly recently added). Also, some of the other vCards have old information. Is there something I'm not doing right? If the solution is to highlight all vCards and +Export vCard...+ then what is the point of +Back up Address Book...+

Dear Pat,
Thank you. I have received the exact same reply from Amreso.
I thank you both for your replies. If the problem occurs again, I shall follow your advice.
I just need to pluck up the courage. I get so nervous with the computer when it plays up.
Regards
Anthony
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:11:29 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problems with reverting to an earlier version
    Re: Problems with reverting to an earlier version
    created by Pat Willener in Installing Flash Player - View the full discussion
This is a public forum; please do not post your email address (by sending the entire forum notification message with all its headers back to the forum).
     Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed a screen image in your message please visit the thread in the forum to embed the image at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5250122#5250122
     Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5250122#5250122
     To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5250122#5250122. In the Actions box on the right, click the Stop Email Notifications link.
     Start a new discussion in Installing Flash Player by email or at Adobe Community
  For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to http://forums.adobe.com/message/2936746#2936746.

Similar Messages

  • Problems with autofill when editing address book entries

    When i try to change eg miller to Miller, anna to Anna etc
    1) the initial letter remains lower case and
    2) even worse, another iller/nna is added on to the end - milleriller, annanna etc.
    I've tried deleting the whole name and starting again - no joy. Is something going wrong with Autofill? Are there any preference files i should try trashing?
    NB this problem only occurs with names which appear more than once in the address book.

    Hi,
    i was having this problem, specifically it kept offering me the word I wanted except all in capitals, which I didn't want. Turned out the cause was that the word was actually used in all capitals elsewhere in my Address Book. Once I hunted down all occurrences of this word in capitals and changed them to my preferred format the autocomplete stopped offering the all-capitalised version. Perhaps this approach will help for you.
    SiR G.

  • Problem with mailing Groups from Address book

    I have been using Groups in my address book for a while - adding people to Groups and using the Group name to email them all at once.  Recently (since turning on iCloud, though I don't know if that is the cause) I am finding the following problem.  I add new people to my address book.  I add those new people to a Group.  I go to mail and use the Group name... but the new people are not in the email list (when I drill into it).  If I go to the address book and use control-click and the drop-down box to select the option to send a mail to the Group, the same thing happens.  Any suggestions out there?  Thanks.

    I am having a similar problem. All the addresses are correct, and I know this because I use them all the time with no errors. BUT when bundled into a group - actually any group I set up I cannot send successfully. I have two groups in my mail program and neither will work.

  • Problem with Entourage to ICal & Address Book sync

    I have recently has a problem with syncing information logged in Entourage's calendar & address book across to iCal & Address book, which then in turn syncs with my iPhone.
    For some reason the information is not now being sync'd across to iCal & Address book. I have checked that I have set the preferences correctly both in Entourage & Mac sync preferences but still it doesn't transfer the info.
    Can anyone help?
    Simon

    Since the issue with is with Entourage, and it's not an Apple product you should consider posting your question on Microsoft's own forums as they would be geared more toward your issue than an Apple forum:
    http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/

  • Problems with envelope-printing in Address Book: First and Last names

    New entries I make in Address Book are printing incorrectly, with Last name then First name. Most of my older entries print correctly as First name then Last name (though oddly I have a small batch of entries I imported ages ago which have always exhibited the same transposition problem).
    I have prefs set to display entries by Last name. Problem entries WILL print correctly if I change this to 'display by First name'. (older entries print correctly regardless of 'display by..' pref).
    I'm having the same problem if I create a new account, which made me suspect the app was corrupted, but not helped by deleting app and re-installing from Tiger DVD then running combo updater.

    Thank you for the suggestion.
    However, it doesn't make sense for the LIST display-order to swap the first-and-last names on an ENVELOPE. Secondly, most of my entries DO print correctly: it's only NEW entries that transpose the first and last names.

  • Problem with synchronization of the Address Book

    My problem is in the synchronization of the Address Book:
    if I add or delete a contact in the iPhone or nell'iPad, syncing, iTunes tells me that there will be a change in the address book, but then in the Address Book on my Mac the new name does not exist or, if I deleted, remains .
    If I make a change (eg. Put an address or a birthday) in contacts of the iPhone or iPad, iTunes tells me that I'm editing the Address Book, but then the change is not in the Mac
    The strange thing is that after the synchronization, if I delete the new name or the variation in the iPhone or iPad, iTunes tells me again that it is making a change on something in the Mac Address Book I can not see, but which evidently is somewhere, but does not appear for whatever **** reason.
    On the contrary, working on the Address Book in Mac, synchronization is successful, and devices that I feedback positively what I added or removed from my Mac
    The synchronization of iCal instead occurs regularly in both directions.
    MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo
    OS Snow Leopard 10.6.8
    iPhone 4 16G
    iPad 3 16G
    All applications updated
    I do not use iCloud

    Hi Krishna,
    The only solution I can think of displaying the doc inside the portal content area is to create a document iView, embed this iView in a role and then in the link use:
    http://<server>:<port>/irj/portal?NavigationTarget=ROLES://<PCD Location of the iView inside the role>
    But that is not very short.
    Best regards,
    Avishai Zamir

  • Importing Address Book Backup file [.abbu]

    Hi
    I just wondered if anyone has ever imported from a .abbu file successfully?
    I have an iMac and an old Powerbook, and have to update the contacts in Address Book on my Powerbook when I go on a trip. So I make Backup files from Address Book on my iMac just before I go away. I also export as VCards which gives me 'vCards.vcf', and finally I simply choose Select All and drag all the contacts over to the folder i'm backing up into – which gives me 'Joe Bloggs and 801 others.vcf'
    The reason I use these 3 methods is because I found that when using my Powerbook, whenever I import the .abbu file I end up with a very very old version of my data – even though I only backed up the day before. I have just tried once again, and having had 802 contacts on my iMac, when I import the .abbu file I end up with 700.
    So I'm having to load in a batch VCF file, which is a solution of sorts but doesn't include my Groups of course. It is concerning that these Address Book Backup files don't seem to be complete back ups at all.
    Is anyone else aware of this?

    however, if it was an OS difference issue, why would it only import some of the contacts?
    That, I'm not sure of; possibly because there was no change in 102 of them, so it may have ignored those. It's also possible the backup was somehow corrupted in those particular records. So many possibilities, so little time to test them all.
    But the .abbu contains a lot more than just your contacts; it's a really a package, just like any application, so you can open it and see what else is in there, too. I've restored from both before and I've never had a problem, but I use the Export to vCard format most often, just to be sure I don't run into problem with changes in later or previous versions of Address Book.

  • After I updated lion to 10.7.4, app store does not recognize my ID APPLE and it unable to connect me to app store in order to update/download apps? What have I to do? I have the same problem with mac mini e mac book air. Please help me!

    After I updated lion to 10.7.4, app store does not recognize my ID APPLE and it unable to connect me to app store in order to update/download apps? What have I to do? I have the same problem with mac mini e mac book air. Please help me!

    Your advice did not help me. I also installed 10.7.4 combo but the situation is the same.
    my internet connection is ok, mail is ok, but app store after 3 resets does not recognize my ID and it says "connection is not possible". Why? I have the same problem in both my mac mini late 2009 and mac book air 2010? Is it a problem of 10.7.4 update? I have to solve this problem and how can i return to 10.7.3 if my last backup was not with 10.7.3???thank you for your kind collaboration...

  • I have a problem with iphoto (have a mac book pro): the icon in the dock appears with a question mark, and the application is gone!!! Can someone tell what's going on? Yesterday I had the same problem with itunes

    I have a problem with iphoto (have a mac book pro): the icon in the dock appears with a question mark, and the application is gone!!! Can someone tell what's going on? Yesterday I had the same problem with itunes: I downloaded the last version (it's free), but I cannot do the same with iphoto, and more important: I need to know what is happening!!! Please help me!

    Applications should not disappear all by themselves.
    If they are then that coud indicate serious problems with your hard drive.
    Backup everything up as quickly as possible.
    Using Disk Utility verify your system disk.
    Allan

  • How do i erase a corrupt contact list from iCloud,iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro and restore Address Book backup to all devices and cloud?

    how do i erase a corrupt contact list from iCloud,iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro and restore Address Book backup to all devices and cloud?
    I saved a corrected, most up to date version of my master Address Book Contacts as a back-up on my Mac Book Pro.
    then in an effort to "simplify my life"  i attempted to sync my I phone contacts - ( pre clean-up version) with my clean list on Mac Book Pro, New I pad and newly available icloud. DUH!! Using iTunes to do the sync caused the clean MacBOOK Pro list to be commingled with the dirty iphone contacts. amd now the whole mess is in the cloud. 
    I need to clear out the contaminated lists from all iplaces, and startover with Back-up on my macbook pro. BUT HOW???
    Help
    Karen

    I had exported an address book backup: abbu
    so since i wrote, i have found my way into the cloud: selected all entries - deleted them all from the cloud.
    This wiped out contacts on my iphone and i pad, and MBP, as well as on the cloud.  I then imported the abbu back into my now empty address book. 
    To repopulate the crowd, i selected all in my address book and created a single card vCard for export to my desktop.  I then dragged that vcard into my empty cloud.  Now my cloud has the same clean contacts as my MBP addressbook.  The cloud then pushed the clean contacts into my empty ipad and iphone contacts. 
    I had to go back to Address Book>preferences>Accounts and Add an I cloud account - but if you accidentally create a second i cloud account - all of a sudden your address book will duplicate itself.  I quickly reversed it by deleting one of the icloud accounts in my Address Book>preferences>Accounts. 
    I created a new entry on my MBP and it is now on all devices and in cloud
    I also created a new entry on my iPhone and it is now in the address book on my MBP.
    I feel empowered!!
    Have i missed anything??

  • Problems with reverting to an earlier version

    The update with Flash Player was causing problems, so I uninstalled Flash Player 11 and then installed Flash Player 10. But I now have Flash Player 10 Plugin and FlashPlayer 11 Active X on my computer. I am not sure how this happened, but is this OK or is this going to cause me more problems?
    Have now just checked again in Control and it also says I now have Adobe 11 plug in. So I guess I am back to where I started.
    I saw my original question but could not find out how to attach this question to it. Sorry.
    [email address removed]

    Dear Pat,
    Thank you. I have received the exact same reply from Amreso.
    I thank you both for your replies. If the problem occurs again, I shall follow your advice.
    I just need to pluck up the courage. I get so nervous with the computer when it plays up.
    Regards
    Anthony
    Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:11:29 -0700
    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Problems with reverting to an earlier version
        Re: Problems with reverting to an earlier version
        created by Pat Willener in Installing Flash Player - View the full discussion
    This is a public forum; please do not post your email address (by sending the entire forum notification message with all its headers back to the forum).
         Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed a screen image in your message please visit the thread in the forum to embed the image at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5250122#5250122
         Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5250122#5250122
         To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5250122#5250122. In the Actions box on the right, click the Stop Email Notifications link.
         Start a new discussion in Installing Flash Player by email or at Adobe Community
      For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to http://forums.adobe.com/message/2936746#2936746.

  • How to correct checkout form "there is a problem with the PayPal email address supplied"

    PayPal Pro submissions do not go through. The error message reads "We cannot process this transaction because there is a problem with the PayPal email address supplied by the seller."
    I called PayPal. They checked and said my checkout form was not sending my email address to them. Any help on getting this to work will be sincerly appreciated. Thank you.

    - If you want to replace the headphone jack yourself see:
    iPod Touch Repair - iFixit
    - Apple will only exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for this price, You get a new battery.  However, it may not be worth it for a 2G iPod.
    Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing- A third-party place like this one is less expensive. Google from more places.
    iPhone Repair, Service & Parts: iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook Pro Screens

  • I cannot revert to address book backup

    Clean installed Leapord last night, I backup the user home folder, how do I revert the address book contact, I can't seem to find it anywhere.

    The address book data are all in a folder,
    ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
    where
    ~ is your home directory.

  • Problems syncing from contacts to address book

    I have an iMac which now runs OSX 10.6.8 and an iPhone 3GS that runs the latest iOS 5.
    Long story short, I downgraded from OSX Lion back to OSX 10.6.8 a few months ago.  Got quite a few problems doing so...  ended up creating a brand new user and transferring music, videos and photos manually.  Then, the iOS 5 got out and I upgraded my phone right away.  I couldn't figure out icloud at first but understood yesterday that it works only with Lion.  I thought I'd keep it on my phone if I ever want to install Lion again.
    I also realised that I never transfered back in my iMac all my iCal events and Contacts.
    So yesterday, I tryied to sync my Contacts, iCal and Notes from my iPhone to my iMac.  In the iTune info tab, under each section, there was a message mentioning that since I use iCloud, I don't need to sync my info through iTune and doing so would possibly create duplicates.  I try to sync them anyway since I only had to in Address Book.  I got the message to merge or replace.  I selected merge (yes I had at least one contact in Address Book).  Nothing happened...  iCal didn't merge anything and neither Address Book.  I tried to create new events in my phone and iMac and these were syncing but not the original ones.  Also added a contact in Address Book and it got sync with my phone.  I didn't try creating one on the phone to sync it through but assumed that it was working.
    After going through a few discussion threads, I decided to delete the iCloud account on my phone since I didn't need it and try re-syncing.  The iCloud message in the iTune's info tab was gone so I thought everything would be good and I could select merge my contact again without any problem.  I was wrong...  I lost all my contacts...  I freeeeeeeeaked out !!  Thank God I didn't unplug the phone and restored it right away to get everything back.
    I tried it again this afternoon but only tried to sync iCal.  I didn't get to choose between merge and replace and the same thing happened again...  lost everything...  iCal but also Contacts which I find strange because I didn't check the Contact option in iTune....   I got everything restored back even thought it's always scary to try things like this....  So for now on, I don't delete my iCloud info on my Phone and do not sync any other info.  I'm actually scared to plug it in and always double check that my contacts are all there before unplugging.
    So here I am...  don't really know what to do...  I read stuff about removing apple.isync files or something...  or other options but they never quite answer my problem...
    There is still the option to type all my contacts back in Address Book..  I don't have that many... but it's a pain...
    Sorry about the long message here
    Thanks for your help and for your time.
    Ben

    Clearly iSync has got confused about what new data it needs to pull from the phone. Usually resetting the sync history solves this, but as it hasn't for you... try this:
    I would suggest sending all the contacts from the phone to the Mac manually via Bluetooth: *Contacts > Options > More > Advanced > Send all Contacts > Via Bluetooth* (or similar, depending on the exact phone model)
    This will send vCard(s) which can be imported into the Mac Address Book simply by double-clicking the file that arrives on your Mac.
    Merge or remove any duplicates as they are imported. You can also use the *Card > Look for Duplicates* command in Address Book.
    Once all your Contacts are exactly as you want them in Address Book do a full backup of them:
    *File > Export > Address Book archive...*
    Finally, load iSync, click your phones icon and choose *Reset Device...* from the Devices menu.
    This will force iSync to remove all the existing contacts from the phone and completely replace them with all the new nicely sorted out ones from the Mac Address Book.
    From this point on, iSync should keep track of what needs updating on each subsequent sync.

  • Can't import address book backup...

    Hi,
    I used to have 10.5 installed on my computer but it was very slow... So I decided to make a clean install of 10.4.
    I backed up my address book contacts from 10.5 but when I try to import them back to 10.4 nothing happens and the computer plays the default alert sound.
    Any suggestions?
    Thanks,

    Thanks BDAqua...
    Sorry for not responding earlier, I supposedly configured my forum account so it would let me know if someone posted something on my question, yet I didn't received any notification about this... Maybe it ended up in my spam folder.
    The scenario is this:
    I had 10.5 and used the backup address book function... It created a file with a .ABBU file with the name Address Book 2008-04-05 and 1.2 Mb of size.
    Then back in 10.4 the Mac recognized the .ABBU file and displays the address book icon on it... When I double click it, Address Book App opens and warns me that I'm about to replace the contents of my Address Book with the contents of the Backup. I click OK and it does nothing but to play the default alert sound.
    Recently I opened the backup file in a friends computer using 10.5 and it opens and restores the contacts just fine, the problem is that I want my computer to have them in order to put them in my iPhone and be able to use them in Mail.
    So, other that upgrading again to 10.5 (that is a no-go since my laptop is dreadfully slow on it) and opening my backup file on a 10.5 machine, export each and every one of my 150+ plus contacts as VCards and then reimporting them back to 10.4, is there any other way to get this working?
    Thanks!

Maybe you are looking for