Sometimes e-mail address shows instead of name

I have a person's full name and e-mail address in my address book. When I receive a message from that person in the mail.app, their e-mail address shows. What can I do to show the person's full name instead?

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My e-mail has changed, but I purchashed some songs in iTunes using my old e-mail address as my account name... so when I try to play the sonngs I bought and paid for - it keeps asking me to authorize my PC first, but I don't remember the password!

My e-mail has changed, but I purchashed some songs in iTunes using my old e-mail address as my account name... so when I try to play the sonngs I bought and paid for - it keeps asking me to authorize my PC first, but I don't remember the password! And since the old e-mail address is no longer active, I can't even chenge the password- becasue it's sends the link to do so via e-mail! Even when I use the "ask personal questions" option to verify and it asks me for my date of birth, I put it in and it still won't acccept.

Hello there, loupar.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up just how to change your Apple ID for the App Store on your iOS device:
iOS: Sign in with a different Apple ID in the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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Hi,
Thanks for posting.
Two things:
1. When you run gpresult are you running it from an administrative command prompt? (Right click cmd - run as admin)
2. Did you deny the read and apply group policy for the user / computer object or just the deny apply? If deny read it might not even be able to read the GPO name correctly.
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Denis
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How do i remove my e mail address from my i message

Can anyone tell me how I can remove my e mail address from my i mail, was notified by friends that everytime I i mail them my full e mail address shows instead of my name as usual?????
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Perhaps I don't understand your question. Above you mention "i mail"; I'm assuming you meant "iMessage". If that is want you meant, then have you turned iMessage to On in Settings>Messages? And if so, does it say anything just below the iMessage On/Off button (such as "waiting for activation")?

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Mac mail is showing the wrong name for one sender in the inbox. It is correct in the preview pane and when opened.
Is also correct on ipad and iphone. Only wrong in mac mail. This occurred when the person changed their name.
Have already deleted that user from the previous emailed contacts. Have started in Safe mode to clear caches.
System is a macbook air with Mavericks 10.9.4
Thanks in advanced for any help with this.

What next?
I'd check with the senders whom you receive mail from to be sure they have your name correctly entered in the address book for whatever mail client they're using; I'm guessing the problem is on their end, since we've eliminated the possibilites on your end: Address Book and the Previous Recipients list. Those are the only two places Mail could draw that information from, unless it's in the original message sent to you, which you can confirm by opening a message, then choosing View > Raw Source. Look for the To: field and if the name doesn't match yours, then you know the problem is on the sender's end, in which case you should tell them to correct your name in their email address book.
Can I clear out the email account completely and start again.
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I receive a text from someone but it has an e-mail address at top of message. When I reply and send , it gets returned. Why? and how was original message sent?

I have downloaded I-Cloud and the new ios program. Where do my text go through now if they don't show up on my bill in the data usage section? When I get a text from friends sometime their e-mail address shows at the top of the message instead of their name like it use to. Then when I reply it gets returned. They tell me they are sending it through the normal text like they use to.

You are probably right - I don't have my iPad with me and was confusing myself. But on the iPad it is receive at email addresses only.
Sending to the phone number will mean ONLY your iPhone gets the message. If you want it to go to ALL devices, then you should have them send to the email address associated with the AppleID you used to set up iMessage originally. Also set that email address up as your caller id on the iPhone so as you send out messages, people will reply to that and both your devices should get them.
Although Apple's notes indicate you should be able to do it - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755
what if you just type in a 10-digit phone number on the iPad instead of an email?
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Contacting Other Apple Discussions Members Who Have No E-mail Address

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How do we contact other Apple Discussions members who have no e-mail address or contact information in their public profile listing? Some years ago, I was able to do this in the Apple Discussion Boards. There used to be a 'send e-mail to this person' icon in the profiles listings.
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a brody wrote:
If they are active in a thread you are watching, you can reply to them and ask them to e-mail you. Be careful though, these boards are public, and can be scanned by "bots" that belong to spammers. Do not use the @ symbol in your e-mail address, and instead use the word AT to represent that symbol. That at least will spoof the "bots."
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How company recently changed e-mail addresses for all the employees. Both the format of the username and the domain changed as well. Our old address will still work for 2 years before they wipe it out, but of course they want us to start using the new address now.
Many websites, including NI discussion forums, use a person's e-mail address as the login name. When the e-mail address becomes inactive, how does that affect my interaction on the discussion forums? Obviously, I could still login using the old e-mail address. But any e-mails from the forum for things such as subscriptions to threads would no longer work. I could not find any place in my profile settings to update my e-mail address for subscription purposes. Of course, I expect it to be difficult to change the forum login name since that would be my unique identifier in the forum.
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Welcome to the Apple Community Lisa.
Firstly, you need to change your details with Apple, Start here, change your country if necessary and go to manage your account. You may have already done this.
In order to change your Apple ID or password for your iCloud account on your iOS device, you need to delete the account from your iOS device first, then add it back using your updated details. (Settings > iCloud, scroll down and hit "Delete Account")
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Couple things I advise
1. Launch Address Book - Go to File - Export - Address Book Archive - Save to where you can find it
This will backup Address Book
2. If possible wipe out all contacts from the iPhone and Sync it over fresh, If this takes to much time then move down to option 3
3. Before going further. Take the backup file you made earlier burn it to a disk or something for safe keeping. But keep the file where u can access it when needed.
Now delete all contacts from Address Book, Now in iTunes go to Advanced and tell it to Sync contacts. This should Wipe out iPhone with blank data as there is now no data in AB.
4. Now take the backup file you made earlier. Double click and restore database. All contacts will return. Now Sync to iPhone.
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