Transfer address book to Lion

How do I translate the address book info from a previous system to Lion's address book?

You shouldn't need to. It will translate it when you open the Address Book application.
If you have the old Address Book still running, Export the contacts as an Address Book Archive. Move that file to your new Mac and double-click it. It will replace your current address book data with the old one.
If you don't have a working version, but still have a backup, move the contents of the old user/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder into the same place on the new Mac. Open Address Book and it should make the necessary adjustments.

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Transfer address book to new MacBook Air

Help. Trying to transfer Address Book 6 data from a target disk mode MacBook Pro to new MacBook Air running Mountain Lion. Can you help?

Kappy wrote:
Please see my User Tip:
A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel Macs from PowerPC G3, G4, and G5 Macs
Includes information on how to run Snow Leopard as a virtual machine using Parallels so you can still run your Rosetta-based PPC applications on the latest Macs.
For complete instructions on what to do see Installing Snow Leopard (and Rosetta)...- Apple Support Communities.
Kappy: Can you please modify the underlying link for your direction to my Snow Leopard Installation into Parallels instructions to this specific post:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18280105#18280105
This specific post in my thread will save the OPs much time in their research. Thank you!

Printing multiple envelopes from address book with Lion

I am having trouble getting envelopes to print properly from Address Book in Lion. I have specified size #10 envelopes. When I print them, the text printed on successive envelopes moves further and further down the page until the address drops off of one envelope and is then printed at the top of the next envelope. If I print to PDF, I see the same behavior. I have an HP Photosmart Premium printer. I didn't have this problem before I upgraded to Lion, and all my settings are the same as they were prior to the upgrade. I have seen that other users have the same problem on the forums, but there isn't a clear cut answer to how to solve the problem anywhere. I also tried using the easy envelopes widget, and I still have the creeping further down the envelope problem. HELP!!!

It seems to be a bug in Lion. Try the solutions provided in other disucssions about changing print size and orientation. Create a custom size and save it. You should be able to test it by printing to pdf first to check it. That way you won't have to waste paper.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18390621#18390621
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18504818#18504818

Address book in lion metadata

Dear Sir,
I have earased the SL and installed Lion as new instaed of using SL upgraded to Lion because it was creating may issues for few weeks. I had all my contacts / address book contacts in the Iphone 4 and used to syc with itunes. Once I had new Lion platform, when I connected to itunes it made my iphone blank / conacts earased.
But I can see its Metadata in my external drive / taken from SL version ealier and can see the same in Lion some where lying. How to restore that contact back to address book. In SL it was easy to paste the files but in Lion cant find any folder or relevant file. Please help Sir !

sharularity wrote:
Address book in Lion is terrible.
Any chance Apple will go back to the address book in Leopard?
I doubt it but who knows. Maybe you can look for an alternative to buy from the App Store.
Otherwise give your feedback at
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Look of the address book in lion?

Is there a way to change the look of the address book in lion? I can not stand the fact that I updated becouse my old computer died, and now I have to try to like Lion. Who whats a leather address book? If I want that I will go back to PC. I looked up all the settings I thought It could be, and can not seem to find any settings for it.

There's no setting in Lion to change this look.
If you are willing to hack around a bit, you could try one of these:
http://www.cultofmac.com/106760/how-to-give-address-book-a-clean-and-simple-look -in-lion/
http://www.simplehelp.net/2011/07/24/how-to-change-the-default-address-book-leat her-skin-in-os-x-lion/
I have no idea how well they work.
charlie

Address book in Lion

I have not yet updated to LION for a number of reasons - basically because I am very pleased with Snow Leopard; and I want to wait until lots of the bugs are fixed in Lion (not that there are a lot, but you know what I mean…) OK but now I read somewhere that ADDRESS BOOK in Lion is much different than in Snow Leopard. Can someone comment on that? I need Address Book to work smoothly - and while some current features (like printing) are not especially good in Address Book - I am reading that the basic way Address Book works in Lion is different and that it is not like Address Book in Snow Leopard…
Thanks for any comments or guidance.
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Saturday 22 October 2011

Its only the UI thats different.
Also, you should know that all the bugs have been cleared out (basically)

Address Book in Lion is killing me.

Address Book in Lion is killing me. I'm trying to create a new group or distribution list based of of existing contacts I have but can't figure it out. Any one have a link to a tutorial? Thanks

sharularity wrote:
Address book in Lion is terrible.
Any chance Apple will go back to the address book in Leopard?
I doubt it but who knows. Maybe you can look for an alternative to buy from the App Store.
Otherwise give your feedback at
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Manual transfer address book to Sony Ericsson phone

still cannot find any isync plugin for my Sony Ericsson phone
how can i transfer address book manually?
thanks in advance

Here's a similar thread--seems the Satio doesn't always play nice with the Mac!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2212706&tstart=0
I think this is the software you need--take a look:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/softwaredownloads/detailed/sonyericssoni sync/satio
~Lyssa

Can't find Application Support for Address Book in Lion. Any ideas where to go?

I need to re-establish my Address Book after iCloud doubled all of the entries in it. But I can't find Application Support for Address Book in Lion.
Can someone help?

Go menu -> Go to folder.
Enter ~/Library
And select Go.
Your contents will now be visible.
WARNING: messing around with these contents without at least twice backups may make your data inaccessible or worse if you don't know what you are doing.

Transfer Address Book - unable to locate object push server

Well, I've seen this issue raised on many forums but no answers forthcoming from either RIM nor service providers - in my case, Swisscom.
The environment & issue:-
unit: Blackberry Pearl 8100 / firmware just updated to v4.2.1.94 (platform 2.3.0.77) - enterprise server activated
Car: BMW 330 new off the line Nov 2008
BMW notes:- according to their literature, the Pearl and this level firmware is fully supported
Before the firmware upgrade...
could make Bluetooth connection but if "transfer address book" was enabled, the link would drop every 30 seconds
After the firmware upgrade...
Bluetooth connection established and stable - even with address book transfer enabled but:-
* address book is not (automatically) transferred
* attempts to force a transfer results in the message (on the Pearl) - "unable to locate object push server"
This seems to indicate the pearl is looking for an enterprise server in the car - why, I don't know
Would be great to break this impasse

I had this problem on my own (I have a car with Bluetooth -Mercedes W204- and a BB 8820) and I was struggling with this for several months. I look everywhere on the internet with no answers and I found a lot of people with the same problem. However.... I think I FINALLY HAVE THE SOLUTION:
Here we go:
- On a bluetooth connection you have, basically, two components.
- You have the BB device and the car device. The key is that the car that is able to receive address book transfers has TWO services:
1) hands free unit
2) Objects Push
The thing is that this TWO services cannot work together AT THE SAME TIME. Normally, you have the car device activated as a "hands free unit", SO, when you attempt to transfer the address book, you receive the famous message "unable to locate object push server".
The one million dollar question is "how can you switch to "Objects push" mode ? Answer: go to Bluetooth, select your car device, open Options and press for "update list of services" and.... voilá!!! the description "hands free unit" will change to "objects push". At that time you will be able to transfer contacts (obviously setting your car device -in my case- to receive those contacts).
Be careful: once you finalized the transfer, you must deactive the car device for receiving contacts and, on your BB, update again the list of services to get your "hands free unit" again because, if not, you were possible will be having problems on connecting over the bluetooth (another common problem I saw in several posts). And that´s it. It worked for me so, pleae try it and Enjoy!! By the way, you don´t need to update your OS....
Cheers from Argentina. Diego

How do you transfer address book from Imac to Ipod?

How do you transfer address book contents to Ipod? Syncing with Itunes doesn't work.

Read the manual:
iPad 2 User Guide (For iOS 4.3 Software)

Restore a user's Address Book on Lion Server with TimeMachine available

Has anybody found the solution to restore a single user's Address Book on Lion Server with TimeMachine available

I recently needed to restore an older version (by a few hours) of my AddressBook DB (on Lion Client) and Time Machine simply kept crashing! Finally, what I had to do to get it going was to quit AddressBook, delete the contents of ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook, and then open that folder within Time Machine (via Finder), so as to only restore (an older version of) the "MetaData" folder within (and nothing else).
Hope this helps.

Transfer address book from os10.4 to mountain lion

My .abbu address book back up from my powerpc is seen as empty by my new contacts app. Is there a way of getting the info. on to my new mac mini?

I'm not familiar with 10.4.11, but if you still have that OS running, go into your AddressBook and export your contacts into vCards. Select all of your contacts then File / Export / Export vCard. This will create a vCard file that you can use to import back into ML.

Address book in Lion tries to send updates to wrong URL in carddav server

As the title says. We have lion with address book. Out of the box.
We have a caldav carddav server that has been used with older macs no problem, and iphones work perfectly also with the server.
This is the problem.
The account is set up on the address book app, and the initial connection works perfectly.
After adding username, password and server address, the address book application finds the correct contacts at the following URL:
/principles/users/[email protected]
You can see this url if you go to the preferences/accounts. You cant edit the URL, which is strange, as you can in iCal (ical works perfectly BTW)
Initial read from the server is fine.
If we change a contact on the server, then click on the address book application, you see the spinner for a second, and the new changes can be seen.
If you make a change on the address book, the changes are NOT reflected on the carddav server.
Both Macbook and server on on same LAN
Server ip address is 10.200.200.51
The port is 8008
The principle URL is /principals/users/[email protected] (which is shown in the address book app as correct)
However, when the address book is changed, and it tries to update the server we see the following on the macbook logs as it is trying to update the server:
You will notice it looks like the address book is trying to connect to a folder that does not exist on the server.
>>>>>>>>
16/02/2012 14:57:53.190 Address Book: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -_handleCompletedAction: Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=500 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 500.)" UserInfo=0x7f93250cf470 {CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x7f93250c9cb0 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{type = immutable dict, count = 8,
entries =>
          0 : Case Insensitive Key: Server = <CFString 0x7f93250c5370 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)"}
          1 : Case Insensitive Key: X-Powered-By = <CFString 0x7f93250c1f00 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "PHP/5.1.6"}
          2 : Case Insensitive Key: Connection = <CFString 0x105ad7b50 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "close"}
          3 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Type = <CFString 0x7f93250a6050 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "application/xml; charset=utf-8"}
          6 : Case Insensitive Key: Date = <CFString 0x7f9325025970 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:57:53 GMT"}
          8 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Encoding = <CFString 0x7f93250bdfb0 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "gzip"}
          10 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Length = <CFString 0x7f93250cf110 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "188"}
          12 : Case Insensitive Key: Vary = <CFString 0x105addb10 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "Accept-Encoding"}
16/02/2012 14:57:53.191 Address Book: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -_handleAddsOrModifies:http://user%[email protected]:8080/adressbooks/user%40domain.com/person al/
Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=500 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 500.)" UserInfo=0x7f93250cf470 {CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x7f93250c9cb0 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{type = immutable dict, count = 8,
entries =>
          0 : Case Insensitive Key: Server = <CFString 0x7f93250c5370 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)"}
          1 : Case Insensitive Key: X-Powered-By = <CFString 0x7f93250c1f00 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "PHP/5.1.6"}
          2 : Case Insensitive Key: Connection = <CFString 0x105ad7b50 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "close"}
          3 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Type = <CFString 0x7f93250a6050 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "application/xml; charset=utf-8"}
          6 : Case Insensitive Key: Date = <CFString 0x7f9325025970 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:57:53 GMT"}
          8 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Encoding = <CFString 0x7f93250bdfb0 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "gzip"}
          10 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Length = <CFString 0x7f93250cf110 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "188"}
          12 : Case Insensitive Key: Vary = <CFString 0x105addb10 [0x7fff72a28fc0]>{contents = "Accept-Encoding"}
>>>>>>>>>
What is interesting is that ical works perfectly (in both directions)
Im not sure if the '%40' in the address book app for the '@' symbol is an issue??
The server path url in address book is not editable as it does not sit in a editable field, unlike it is in ical.
Either way, both the ical and address book find the principle URL correctly, but the address book app then uses a different url when it tries to connect to upload changes made on the address book app.
Any help would be really appreciated!! :-) Maybe there is a way to change the URL in a settings file somewhere???
thanks

I have a similar issue. My initial iCloud sync works fine and then when I try to merge a contact I get an error. My iCloud doesn't sync after the initial sync it seems.
8/1/14 8:36:48.940 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### PREPARING MERGER WITH 3 USERS, 0 GROUPS
8/1/14 8:36:48.946 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### DOWNLOAD FROM https://first%[email protected]/XXXX/carddavhome/card///first%[email protected]/XXXX/carddavhome/card/ ###
8/1/14 8:36:54.852 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### MERGE BATCH: Server People: 3, Server Groups: 0, Changed People: 1, Changed Groups: 0, Removed People: 1, Removed Groups: 0 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.274 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### ------ SUMMARY ------ ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.276 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Local People: 3 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.277 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Local Groups: 0 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.279 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Server People: 3 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.280 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Server Groups: 0 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.282 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Merged People: 1 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.284 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Merged Groups: 0 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.286 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Removed People: 1 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.287 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Removed Groups: 0 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.289 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Local People Upload: 3 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.290 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### Local Groups Upload: 0 ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.292 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### --------------------- ###
8/1/14 8:36:59.294 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### UPLOAD TO https://first%[email protected]/XXXXX/carddavhome/card///first%[email protected]/XXXXX/carddavhome/card/ ###
8/1/14 8:37:00.146 AM Contacts[5237]: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -_handleAddsOrModifies:https://first%[email protected]/XXXXXXX/carddavhome/card///first%[email protected]/XXXXXXX/carddavhome/card/ Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=503 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 503.)" UserInfo=0x60000747c680 {CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x60000ce7c400 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{type = immutable dict, count = 8,
entries =>
0 : Connection = <CFString 0x600003228500 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "close"}
1 : Content-Type = <CFString 0x60000345ea20 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "text/plain; charset=UTF-8"}
2 : Retry-After = <CFString 0x7fff7a1f4880 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "60"}
3 : X-Apple-Request-UUID = <CFString 0x60000a861cc0 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "bcc676c4-43fd-4c45-8537-8d9dc8a0d1c9"}
5 : X-Responding-Instance = <CFString 0x6000016986f0 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "carddav:20400501:nk11p04me-carddav005:8001:14E35:141037"}
6 : Date = <CFString 0x600005c5a460 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:36:58 GMT"}
8 : Content-Encoding = <CFString 0x600003238840 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "gzip"}
12 : Transfer-Encoding = <CFString 0x7fff79353ea0 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "Identity"}
8/1/14 8:37:00.150 AM Contacts[5237]: [MIGRATION] ### ERROR Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=503 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 503.)" UserInfo=0x60000747c680 {CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x60000ce7c400 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{type = immutable dict, count = 8,
entries =>
0 : Connection = <CFString 0x600003228500 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "close"}
1 : Content-Type = <CFString 0x60000345ea20 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "text/plain; charset=UTF-8"}
2 : Retry-After = <CFString 0x7fff7a1f4880 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "60"}
3 : X-Apple-Request-UUID = <CFString 0x60000a861cc0 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "bcc676c4-43fd-4c45-8537-8d9dc8a0d1c9"}
5 : X-Responding-Instance = <CFString 0x6000016986f0 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "carddav:20400501:nk11p04me-carddav005:8001:14E35:141037"}
6 : Date = <CFString 0x600005c5a460 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:36:58 GMT"}
8 : Content-Encoding = <CFString 0x600003238840 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "gzip"}
12 : Transfer-Encoding = <CFString 0x7fff79353ea0 [0x7fff7a1fef00]>{contents = "Identity"}
}, exiting ###

Can't transfer address book or e-mail content from failed G5 iMac to new 21.5" iMac

A friend's G5 iMac (running OS X 10.5.8 Snow Leopard) failed due to logic board problems. G5 hard drive is okay. A brand new 21.5" 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 iMac (with OS X 10.9.2 installed) was bought to replace the G5.
All G5 data (e-mail, documents, etc.) was accessed and transferred cleanly except for address book content, by using the G5's drive in an external enclosure which was firewire-connected to a 27" 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 iMac running OS X 10.7.5 (Lion); data pulled from the G5's drive was transferred via the 27" iMac to USB flash drives and from there to the 21.5" iMac. Attempting to transfer the G5 Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/AddressBook data files/folders "AddressBook-v22.abcddb", "MailRecents-v4.abcdmr" and "Metadata " (folder) to the corresponding locations of the 21.5" iMac resulted in no recognition of them on it.
Are there files other than the above which should have been transferred, or is there a conversion process which should have been applied to the originals before transfer?

Did you have AB Quit on the new Mac when you did it?
You should be able to import Mailboxes on Mail, they're on the old drive in...
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail, after you click on that top folder, it'll show you a list of Mailboxes you can choose to import.
Then in Mail you can Select All & choose Mail's Message menu item to Add Senders to Addrees Book... or whatever they call it now... at least

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