Smart Group from a selection in Address Book.

In Address Book, is there any way to create a smart group from a selection or an existing group? It seems that a smart group can only be created from "All Contacts". But I don't want to start with "All Contacts" for my smart group, just an existing group.  You can do "New Group From Selection", but you can't seem to do "New Smart Group From Selection".  Is there any way around this?

You need to go to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Images and Control-click on each file and open it using Preview. Then you can export the image if you choose. Just keep in mind that these will be thumbnail quality, so don't expect large images, either in file size or physical size.

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