When I sync my address book do I have to sync all groups?

I have an iPhone 3G. When I sync my address book do I have to sync all groups? One group I want to stay on my Mac but not show on my iPhone. Can I do that?

After selecting Sync Contacts followed by a sync, deselecting Sync Contacts followed by a sync does not remove the contacts from your iPhone as is done after deselecting Sync Music for music and after deselecting Sync Apps for apps.
At the Address Book menu bar on your Mac, go to File > Export and select Address Book Archive. Save the exported archive to your Desktop.
Follow this by deleting all contacts from the Address Book on your Mac. After all contacts are deleted from the Address Book on your Mac, launch the iSync application in your Applications folder. Go to iSync preferences and select Reset Sync History.
Follow this by reselecting Sync Contacts under the Info tab and syncing your iPhone with iTunes. This should remove all contacts from your iPhone.
If so, at the Address Book menu bar go to File > Import and locate/select your Address Book archive saved to your Desktop to restore your Address Book contacts and groups. Under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences, choose selected groups followed by selecting the Address Book groups you want available and synced with your iPhone followed by a sync.

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You likely have them in both the On My Mac account and the iCloud account. I deleted all from my On My Mac account except the ones I didn't want iClouded. Did the opposite on the iCloud account.

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com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist (not sure you'll necessarily find this one.)
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noomee
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Hello everyone.
I'm hoping that members might be able to offer me some advice about a problem I'm having with Address Book.
I use an intel iMac running OS 10.4.11 and Address Book 4.0.6. This morning I used iSync to synchronise my Palm TX with the iMac and found that all the entries in the Palm's Contacts had disappeared (except for 2 — Apple Computers and my own entry). When I loaded Address Book I found the same situation, all the records were gone except for my own and Apple's. The last time I used Address Book, with no problems, was yesterday at about 2.00pm.
I've been wandering round the web since then finding a number of variations of my problem and I've tried the solutions suggested, with no luck. I've renamed AddressBook.data.previous as AddressBook.data and I've copied the whole Application Support folder for Address Book from my backup (I clone the iMac onto an external hard drive) to the iMac's hard drive, both without success. I still have the files ABPerson.skindexinverted (220K) and ABSubscribedPerson.skindexinverted (8K), but the data file itself is only 8K.
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All help gratefully received!
Susan

Hi
Sorry about the delay in replying to your last message, but I've had a print deadline to meet, which always puts everything else on hold.
I've opened a few of the .abcdp files with Text Edit and the information is in there, buried among loads of code, so many thanks for telling me that. I've beamed the address book from my other half's Palm (which used to be mine) over to mine, so I should have most of the current contacts which I hope I can transfer onto the iMac. The missing ones, distant members of my family for instance, I will have to search for in the .abcdp files and enter manually into AB (always remembering to take a backup regularly!).
Unfortunately I don't know anyone with a Mac running Leopard, in fact I only know one other person with a Mac. We freed ourselves from the thralldom of the PC only three years ago and are still the odd ones out with colleagues and friends. Having the Macs has made using a computer enjoyable for the first time in 25 years, ever since we bought a Commodore 700 and I began the daily struggle with various pieces of user-hostile software.
Many thanks for helping me out. I've put Snow Leopard at the top of my shopping list by the way.
Regards
Susan

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I copied this from an extremely knowledgable iTunes for Windows user in another discussion. Maybe this will help.
In Windows, you can restore much of the look & feel of iTunes 10.7 with these shortcuts:
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Cannot make long distance calls when dialing from BB address book

Hello,
1) If use a number from my address book, example 1-604-824-2021, to call long distance I get a message "all long distance calls must include the area code. Please check the number and dial again."   If I use the telephone pad to call the exact same number, eg 1-604-82402021, the call goes through. Is there a setting to adjust? Please advise. Thank you.
2) I synched my BB to Outlook 2007 on my pc in order to print a hardcopy of my contact list. The sync worked fine but only gave me the contacts with an email address and their name. Contacts on my BB without email addresses didn't show on the list and all details, addresses, birthdates, and most importantly phone numbers for any contacts didn't show up. Is there a way to get ALL the contact details on a hardcopy? Thank you.
The folks at Telus can't help because they apparently don't know BB products well enough. I'm not about to pay BB technical to tell me how to use their product but i might take the service providers advise to buy an iPhone. Can someone offer advise to solve these two seemingly simple issues
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Solved!
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Hi and Welcome to the Community!
ralphhr wrote:
1) If use a number from my address book, example 1-604-824-2021, to call long distance I get a message "all long distance calls must include the area code. Please check the number and dial again."   If I use the telephone pad to call the exact same number, eg 1-604-82402021, the call goes through. Is there a setting to adjust? Please advise. Thank you.
Please check your Smart Dialing settings...it may be that they are active, which could make the "1" in your Contact Item extraneous.
KB20595 How to turn off the Smart Dialing feature
ralphhr wrote:
2) I synched my BB to Outlook 2007 on my pc in order to print a hardcopy of my contact list. The sync worked fine but only gave me the contacts with an email address and their name. Contacts on my BB without email addresses didn't show on the list and all details, addresses, birthdates, and most importantly phone numbers for any contacts didn't show up. Is there a way to get ALL the contact details on a hardcopy? Thank you.
Interesting...it should sync everything...hmmm... Well, if your only interest is a hard copy, then an export might be just as simple. The Desktop Software can export to a CSV, which you could then render in Excel, and do with as you please. Unfortunately, the export feature was removed in the most recent versions of the Desktop Software (don't ask...it's a HUGE bru-ha-ha!!), and you must use an older version (6.x or lower, as I recall) to do that:
http://www.blackberryos.com/downloads.php?do=cat&id=110
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When I access the address book, how can I copy an address without having to open the person's info in the edit window?

When I find a person's address in the address book and highlight their name in one pane, in the lower pane their info shows up. Unfortunately, highlighting the information I want is disabled. So, I open their info in the edit window, and then click on the appropriate tab.
Getting a single piece of information is not so inconvenient, but when you're putting together lists it is rather onerous to do it that way.
Being able to highlight and copy off the address book panes would be cool. Thanks

In an earlier communication, I had said that this was possible, at least with TB on Windows, but I realize now that it's only possible when a certain add-on is enabled: [https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/morecols-en.html MoreFunctionsForAddressBook]
http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html
Install the add-on, and see if you can now highlight info in the Contact Pane by dragging the cursor. Ctrl-C (or the Mac equivalent) to copy the highlighted text to the clipboard.
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Address Book doesn't have "sync with Google contacts" any more...!!!!!

Hi Guys
Hoping someone can help...
I've updated to 10.0.8, and I just have a look at the options under Address Book. There are still options to sync contacts with MobileMe, and Yahoo (and one other, which I can't remember as I'm not at my Mac), but the last one, "sync with Google contacts", has disappeared!
Has anyone else noticed if that has gone? Have Apple decided not to partner with Google any more?
Or does my Address Book just have some kind of bug?
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Sorry... correction... 10.5.8, obviously!!

Why is the email address in the To: box red when auto-completed from Address Book?

Linux TB31.0
Not aware of this problem in prior issues!
Problem occurs when starting to type receipient in "To" box.
Have "Home Address Book" no "Personal Address Book" no "Collected Addresses".
Should I export and rename "Home Address Book" then import it back in as "Personal Address Book" to be properly recognized by the auto-completion "To" entry?

Have tried to eliminate possibility of corrupt *.mab files by exporting personal address book to another folder as *.ldif, then closed TB, then deleted all *.mab files in profile directory, then restarted TB, then imported the *.ldif into TB as my personal address book.
TB recognises addresses but auto complete still insists on marking "To" text to red.
Thanks for responding anyways.
Partial Fix!!
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