TS2481 I can't rename a group I imported into my address book?

I can't rename a group I imported into my address book...It just says "last import" and in the menu it is not available to choose....

Have you tried opening Address Book from either the dock or from the Applications folder? Address Book is a separate application (although it works together with Mail), so you can just open it without opening Mail.

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My address book on my iMac has contacts organized by several groups. My wife and I have just purchased iPhones and want to keep our photos and music coordinated with one iCloud account.
My whole address book is synced with iCloud. Can I set my iPhone to sync with a specific group of contacts from the address book?
Thanks in advance.

Use the usb cable that comes with your iPhone to connect it to your Mac. Read the directions that came with the iPhone. Post in the iPhone forums where the iPhone gurus are. Google... Look to the right of your post in the "More Like This" column...

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A friend just gave me an AT&T BB Pearl 8100 and I am using it as a phone only with no data plan (it's a company cell phone but they won't pay for a data plan -- I just put my SIM card in the BB). I am trying to connect to my personal PC with the USB cable and import my OE address book. I am using Desktop Manager 4.7, and when I try to synch it a window flashes that says "Synchronization Progress - Processing" for about one second, then that disappears and my phone doesn't get updated. Can someone help me? I searched for this problem prior to posting but can't find this situation. I dread having to type them one by one -- any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
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For importing the dbx files, see this page:
http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.ca/2011/07/outlook-express.html

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How can I extract a picture from a contact in Address Book? Address Book is version 5.0.3 with Mac OS X 10.6.8. Btw, I don't have access to the original picture anymore.
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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.

Since upgrading to os 10.6, I can't drag email addresses into my address book

Since upgrading to OS 10.6, I can no longer drag email addresses into my address book. Is there a quick way to restore this function that had worked in OS 10.4 but is apparently disabled in 10.6? Is there a work around someone figured out that's quick? I wish Apple would send out a patch to fix this problem. Any news on this front?

James,
Although slightly different than the problem you are having, perhaps 10.6: Change Mail's 'Copy Address' behavior - Mac OS X Hints will help with your problem.

I am having trouble sending bulk emails (less than 100 at a time) on my gmail account using group names created from my address book. I use Mail on my I-Mac. When I try to send out a bulk email, the message shows up that my server can't send them, etc.

I am having trouble sending bulk emails from a Mail Group (less than 100 at a time) on my gmail account. They come back saying the server can't recognize the data and try again with selected server or try later or edit message, all of which I have attempted a number of times, including re-booting the computer. I am wondering if there is something wrong in my Address Book? I have check Apple Preferences, and Mail Preferences and all seems in order. I can send to any of the individual addresses, but not in a group.
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Can I copy a contact from one group to another in my address book?

I would like to copy contacts from my main address book into existing "groups".

Not with Aperture. You'll need an image editor like Photoshop, Acorn, Pixelmator ect
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Can two Motorola E815s sync up to one family address book?

Hey all, thanks for looking. Apologies if this is an obvious RTFM issue, but I can't find talk of it anywhere. There must be many couples with two cell phones who could/would share the same address book via bluetooth.
Will our iBook G4 with Bluetooth sync the Mac address book onto two different wireless phones? That would be so cool. We use only one account on the Mac, therefore one address book (I think).
We see the Motorola E815 has iSync, which kicks butt, and we're thinking of buying two of them. Thanks again for looking.
If it can't be done, how could we decide who gets to Sync, and who must type it all in manually?

David, nice to hear from you again, hope you are well.
This user tip might help you understand how accounts work with Address Book.
I believe you have duplicates because you have two sets of contacts. "iCloud" and "On My Mac". Once you have created all your contacts in the iCloud account, you should delete them from On My Mac.
You can move contacts simply by dragging and dropping from one account to the other, you don't need to export them all to the desktop (although doind so will serve as a good back up if all goes wrong). You should note that this copies them though rather than simply move them, so you'll need to delete the old set when you are done.
As for preserving groups from the On My Mac Account, you can't but you can simplify recreating them by copying contacts (drag and drop) from an on my mac group to an empty group in iCloud.
Not sure about the contacts that you are struggling to move.
Many aspects of iCloud are difficult to understand, have a mull through what I've said so far and come back if everything still doesn't fall into place.

Can I sync phone book entries of two different phones into one address book

My wife and I have two motoroal phones (different models) and one iMac at home. I have synced my phonebook entries in the address book and it works fine. Trouble started when I tried to sync my wife's phone. All my numbers and details got downloaded in her phone. creating a seperate sub directory for her didn't help.
Can someone help me solve the problem? Essentially the question is can two phones have exclusive (and independent of each other) access to the address book for syncing purposes? If yes how?
I hope my question was clear enough. Help will be really appreciated.
I use the motorola USB connection chord for the syncing.

Just set up two Groups in Address Book. One with your contacts in, and one with your wifes.
Then in iSync, click the icon for your wife's phone and choose the Address Book group you made for her, then do the same for your phone.

HT2486 How do I import existing Outlook contact groups into Mac Address Book?

After months of problems with Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac, I am switching to Mac Mail. I seem to have successfully imported my individual contacts into Address Book. However, I have been unsuccessful in figuring out how to import group contacts into Mac Mail.
So far I have created .txt files, (a separate one for each group), listing each e-mail address in that group separated by a comma. Can I input this information into Address Book somehow? If not, how else can I import my groups into Address Book in a more efficient way than manually entering them? Manually dragging and dropping names into each new Address Book group is not an option, since I have about 50 groups with 20-50 people in each of them. It would take me extraordinary amounts of time to do that, not to mention the frustration.
A second question: There are many duplicates listed in my address book. When I select Card>Look for Duplicates, it tells me that No duplicates are found. They most definitely exist, however. How can I erase them without having to manually delete each duplicate?

You can't transfer the groups, you'll need to do it the hard way.
As for the duplicates, how many accounts do you have in your Address Book?

How can I get rid of iCloud duplicates in my Address Book?

Since joining iCloud, I have two duplicate sets of iCloud groups in my Address Book. How can I get rid of one of them?

susan-soy wrote:
Since joining iCloud, I have two duplicate sets of iCloud groups in my Address Book. How can I get rid of one of them?
If you have 2 accounts in AB (iCloud and On My Mac) stop looking at both of them simultaneously.

Can't import backed up address book after hard drive crash

I had a hard drive crash that sent my G5 into the shop. In the mean time I used my laptop and added info to address book, then transferred that info onto the new hard drive on the G5 when I got it back from the shop. So now I have a current address book and an older backed up copy on another drive. If I try to import the backed up info in address book, it tells me it will overwrite the current version. I want to keep the addresses that I added while my Mac was in the shop and ADD (not overwrite) the addresses from the backed-up copy. How can I do this? Thanks so much!
Dan

Opening a backup will always overwrite the existing data. I'll try to explain my solution better:
You have your Address Book data and your backup. You want to combine them, but Address Book can only use one or the other. Combining them implies that you'll use an export-and-reimport sequence.
To export your existing data, select the All group. Go to the names column and select them all with the Cmd-A shortcut. Drag that column to the desktop to make a vCard that contains all of your contacts.
Now the copy of your current address data is on your desktop, so the copy in the Address Book application can be overwritten. Read in the backup to bring the backup contacts into Address Book. The other collection of your contacts is the vCard on your desktop, so drag that in and it will be imported without overwriting the existing data (but it will be merged in if there are duplicate cards).

Can I add "BCC" quick feature to my mail/address book?

When I write a new email using MAIL I can click open the address book. In that new window, in upper left, I can click "TO" or "CC:" But there is no "BCC:" option. So, to do a BCC, I have to drag the names, or group of names to the BCC field in the email. Takes more time.
Is there a way to do a quick BCC from the address book w/o dragging?
J

No, no idea how i "parked " this & never got back to it... but do you still have this issue?

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.

How can I put a contact in two or more Address Books without making a 'new contact' for each?

I would like to put several of my contacts in more than one Address Book; but, if I move them (drag'n'drop) from one they no longer remain in the original Book...which I want. I'd like to segregate different interest groups and file them in separate Address Books, but many of my contacts fit in several Address Book identities. Any solution to keep from having to make whole new contact addresses for existing contacts? Thanks for any help you might offer..... NJR

If I want to copy a contactl to another address-book I simly hold down the ctrl-key when I drag and drop

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