Why has Lion rendered Address Book 6.1 Spotlight function useless?

Spotlight suddenly stopped working in Address Book. Can still add, delete, edit contacts - just cannot searchfor them. Anyone else experiencing this?

Did you enable to search for contacts in the System Preferences -> Spotlight pane? You need to enable Contacts in the "Search Results" tab of the Spotlight Preference Pane.

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Since upgrading to Lion my address book no longer communicates with iTunes? This means that no new information is getting to my iPhone etc? Any ideas? Thanks

Since upgrading to Lion my address book no longer communicates with iTunes? This means that no new information is getting to my iPhone etc? Any ideas? Thanks

Nathan Miah wrote:
Is there absolutely anything else I could do to sort this such as phone Apple Support
If you want.
or maybe install Snow Leopard using the disc it came on with my Mac and just set it up from a Time Machine Backup on my external hard drive (since it works under SL)?
Did you install Lion on an empty partition, or did you upgrade Snow Leopard? If you upgraded, I'd not recommend erasing it, since your backups are apparently gone. It's doubtful Snow Leopard will recognize them.
It's not just backups on the drive either, there are other important things on there, so why won't they show?
Mixing Time Machine backups and other data is not a good idea. See #3 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. It sounds like the whole disk is corrupted.
I just really don't understand how this happened. Could it not be an issue with WD because they haven't issued firmware to support Lion yet?
If this is a simple external HD, connected by USB or FireWire, no, unless you installed some of WD's software on it. That shouldn't prevent it from being seen at all, but anything's possible.

Why is my iCloud address book different from my iMac address book?

Why is my iCloud address book different from my iMac address book? How can I make everything the same?

How is it different, does it contain duplicates, is it not syncing, please provide more information.

Why cant I connect address book to more than one email account.

Why cant I connect address book to more than one email account I have 3 but can only do this for my icloud account ?? I am using the correct pass word but still no joy ????

I bought an iPhone 3G this morning (wahoo!), and can confirm that I have setup both an IMAP (for my home server) and an exchange server (for work).
Exchange is set to push email (so will get email as it arrives) and IMAP is currently set to manual, and is working like a charm.. With multiple accounts you get to set one as the preferred which it will default to when composing (but you can change the accounts on the compose screen)
Only minor annoyance is signature is shared between both accounts, other than that am loving it!

Why wont my Mac Address Book overwrite my Palm Desktop????

I have spent the last few days messy about with this bloody isync and my treo 650 trying to configure the address books in the way i would like.
yesterday i managed to finally back up my palm top (treo 650) and merge it with my mac address book. the only problem with this was that there were a lot of duplicate names, or names from the address book that didnt have numbers etc etc.
Anyway, the good thing was that i now had all of my contacts from my phone into my mac address book.
this morning i spent hours going through my now complete mac address book weeding out and duplicates, and basically making it perfect.
now i cant figure out how to overwrite my treo and my palm desktop on my mac with my mac address book contacts!!!! its driving me crazy!
i am not worried about ical, or any of the other things syncing (although i suppose it would be a bonus) i just want to get my address book contacts on my treo and to overwrite the old messy version of palm desktop that has all of the duplicates in it.
any ideas? i am running OSX 10.4.8 isync 2.3 and have palm desktop 4.2.1
many thanks
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

not quite sure what has happened now. i backed up the address book and exported the v cards (when you said select all in the left most sidebar did you mean select all of the groups or just the group called 'all'? i selected just the group called all).
i then imported them fine into palm desktop using the methods you said except that in my mac address book i had 586 cards and in palm desktop it only seems to say i have 312.
also when i was copying them it asked it i wanted to keep the new or old version with the only differences i could see between the new and the old cards being that it now said CATEGORIES: Palm in the notes section. i said yes to replacing all of the old ones with these new palm ones.
when i went back to the address book afterwards, it now seems to have taken a lot of various addresses out of the various groups i had them set up in. they are all still there in 'all' though so at least thats something.
i also seem to have some random duplicates in palm desktop.
i have also noticed that if for example in mac address book you dont fill in the first name in the first name box and the surname in the surname box (ie you write the first name and the surname in the first name box) then this can cause problems when you try and display stuff alphabetically in palm desktop.
i have some contacts with just names and emails, and some with numbers, emails etc etc. could this cause problems? i am also wondering if each card isnt set up in exactly the same format, could this cause problems in palm desktop (ie the order you have mobile, home, email etc listed on each card?)
still not sure why i only have almost half of my numbers though!?
can you help?
many thanks

Lion's Address Book - A WARNING

for those upgrading to the latest version of osx ("lion"), a word of warning. prepare to groan over some annoying changes to ical. but when you launch the new address book, be careful. your first impulse, like mine, may be to jump out the nearest window.
apple's later rev to address book is a TOTAL DISASTER. and just to be clear: the problem is not the ugly "leather" cover (but make no mistake: it is ugly) or the misguided and juvenile attempt to mimic a real-world object (for the sake, one assumes, of simplicity and ease of use). the problem is that the "updated" functionality of the address book *****. it is both harder to use and less useful than its predecessor.
being able to see groups, people, and their data at the same time is essential to easily modify and browse the address book. now not only do i have a more difficult click-path to navigate my contacts, but i have to hold in memory (my memory) the context of what i am looking at.
the old address book, while not perfect by any means, helped me organize and use my contacts. the new address books makes it significantly more difficult. in this age of social networking where people and connections are fundamental to how we work and play on the web, is this really the best apple could do? TOTAL FAIL, APPLE.

I have just restored SL and abandoned Lion as I could not stand the address book being a heavy user of the three pane functionality. The only way to resolve this at the moment is through a gimmicky solution: opening 2 instances of address book side by side.
It is really puzzling to see how Apple managed to make the already worse native application in Mac even more abysmal.
There is a substantial worsening of functionalities as highlighted time and time again in comments here, in Twitter and in all Lion reviews that care to include the address book (not all do!).
In address book I would be looking to resolve these issues:
1- Revert to original 3 pane view (was available in SL)
2-Allow creation of new contacts directly in a group (was available in SL)
3- Restore the counter present for every folder to give number of entries in a given group (now you have to scroll to the bottom of the group to see it) (was available in SL)
4- Restore the icon to distinguish entries between company/person (was available in SL)
5- Possibility of removing of alphabetical letter grouping of entries
6- Option to change leather skin (revert to SL clean look)
7-When you check to see what groups a contact belongs to (by hitting the Option key while the contact is selected), the groups used to be clearly highlighted in bright yellow in OSX 10.6, but now the font just slightly changes colour from black to dark blue.
and desirable improvements:
8-Allow font selection to facilitate reading and page display and reduce waste of space (was not available in SL)
9-Option to display contacts in table view for quick bulk editing (was not available in SL)
10-Show which (smart) group each contact belongs to on the contact’s page (was not available in SL)
11-Facilitate the creation of a new contact from the same company (i.e a colleague) without having to copy across most details (was not available in SL)
12-The find duplicates function is as bad as it was--no chance to see the duplicates and choose which to keep or whether to combine.
It really seems Apple has given over the app to develop to some kids that could not think of anything better than making a book view. There are, unfortunately, no serious apps to compensate for this in the app store, address book is a real disaster with Lion. So developers should quickly step in!
Last point: Apple has not even bothered to de-bug the previous version and replicated the same bug that has been around for over 2 years: if you want to print a set of contacts (company type) that belong to a group in list mode and you want to see the name of the person along with the company basic request!) you cannot do that. By selecting “Name” in the print dialog list, the “Introduced by” appears instead. This I have written to Apple about 2 years ago and told the “geniuses” countless times... Pathetic.
Please can we at least have the SL version of the address book back?

Lion Server Address Book vs. iCloud

I'm happy with iCloud with only one, big exception: Address Book.
I have 5600+ entries (growing) and managing large groups with Adress Book/iCloud always gives me pain but I need to have my contacts library sinchronized between Mac-iPhone & iPad.
Therefore I am considering various solutions like Exchange, Google Contacts and using a mac mini with Lion Server for my contacts.
I'm very doubtful about it because buying such a new device only for managing my contacts sounds exxagerated for me but it's clear that the iCloud Address Book is not designed for large libraries.
My question: In this case, managing a large Address Book on Lion Server will REALLY give me a better service than iCloud?
Thank for comments/suggestions!

maybe you found a good solution for your company with FM2LDAP. Take a look at
www.dircard.net
You can manage your Contacts with Filemaker, and put it on your LDAP-Server. From here, you can acsess your contacts from anywhere. Also can you manage access-rights to your Contacts with Server ACLs.

Mail Merge download has lost collected address book how do I recover it?

I needed to be able to do large mail merge for e-mails. Found Mail Merge add on and downloaded it. When I restarted Thunderbird, my collected e-mails address book had gone. Only personal address book visible with only 2 addresses in it. Urgently need to recover address book asap. Removing Mail Merge add on has not fixed the problem. What can I do to recover address book?

I did.
They helped me stop Plaxo syncing and solved their problem, but mac address book is toast and they
don;t know how to fix it.
They said call apple.
Address book won't open at all now.

LION MAIL ADDRESS BOOK

Does Mail v.5.0 allow Address Book to appear in its toolbar? It doesn't show itself in mine and it was such a useful feature of the pre-Lion versions. Nor can I find a way of including it in Mail or Address Book Preferences: am I missing something (apart from an Address Book, that is)?
JR

I tried this after a nudge from Carolyn Samit.
It was a bit trickier than that: I had to delete the current icon in the Dock and then move the Address Book app OUT of the Applications Folder and then it opened. Then I put it back and all is well.
I have since discovered all sorts of "gray" .apps (like PhotoBooth.app) that won't open through the Applications folder. But it will open from the icon in the dock. Hmmmm. Is this a Library thing?
Thank you, Carolyn, for getting my Address Book "back" !

HT2486 since I've updated to lion my address book freezes what can i do to reinstall

Since i updated to OSX lion on my macbook pro, my address book freezes constantly and i cant see my contacts

Try some troubleshooting.
Isolating Issues
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode. Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the grey Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal.
Safe Mode
Safe Mode - About
General information.
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Why is Apple's Address Book widget looking outdated?

I've the latest updates on my new iMac, but I noticed that the standard Address Book widget that comes with Dashboard looks outdated. You have to type in a name to get it working, no arrows. On the Mac at work this widget is dynamic and easy to flip through. Even on apple.com it shows the cool looking one. Strangely enough the boring looking one is version 1.1 and the cool looking one at work is an older version 1.0.2. Is this a design update mistake? Has anyone else noticed this? How do I fix this?
I'll appreciate your feedback. Thanks.
-Mike

Dutchy, it looks like that is the way it is supposed to look now. If you would like it the other way in a future release, you can go to the Mac OS X tab above and then Feedback to make your suggestion to Apple. Otherwise you might look for a widget that does what you like, or better yet, create your own.

How do I see a total contacts count in Lion's Address Book?

Address Book has always displayed the total number of contacts. I can no longer find that count in the new Address Book. Anyone know where Apple put that? It is essential for compa

I see it in a couple places. Address Book>Edit>Edit Distribution list.
Also in mail>Tool Bar>address
Not in the fancy GUI view.

Why doesn't my address book sync with my phone?

Hi everybody,
I have used isync with my Nokia 6230 ever since I got my first Macbook Pro (had loads of trouble with the first one, and finally support changed it for me: LONG STORY). Today, I was syncing my phone as I normally do and I noticed that nothing happened. To my surprise, I looked at the phone only to find duplicate (sometimes triplicate) entries of every single contact. I erased all duplicate entries (real hard work..) and tried syncing it again. What happened was that the whole address book in my mac got erased. After that I tried to sync it again and again, but the contacts simply did not leave my cell phone and enter the computer's address book. They still don't and I'm pretty annoyed :-S!
I tried all the back up routine but nothing worked... I guess all the sync tries ended up ruining the address book's backup system. Since I did not make a backup of my address, I'm pretty stuck. Fortunately everything is in my cell phone but, as I said, I can't put it back in the address book for an unknown reason.
Any thoughts on what I should do?
Thank you very much in advance
João

Thank you Julian, I think your idea might end up in a solution.
Even though my phone (Nokia 6230) doesn't have the "Send all contacts" option, I tried to send an individual vCard for testing purposes: the address book accepted it with arms wide open (like that silly Creed song). Because I'm stubborn, I tried to sync my phone with my one-contact address book and ended up with two different people on my phone with exactly the same name and number (along with everybody else fortunately...).
I'm guessing if I do this for the WHOLE cell phone contact list, I'll have an address book on my mac by Christmas eve . I'll mark this question as answered when I'm done doing this and follow the rest of your advice.
This raises two important questions:
- What happened in the first place?
- Is Apple going to develop a more complete syncing software where weird things such as these do not happen?
Any thoughts on these issues? It really annoys me when I don't understand what's wrong with the equipment I use...
Thank you for your time and patience.
João

Why isn't the Address Book on my mac syncing up with iCloud?

Since I've upgraded to iCloud, the Address Book on my mac isn't working right. There are some contacts on iCloud that are not showing up on my mac. Also, I can't get "add contact to address book" to work in Mail on my mac -- I'll select it, and it won't add the contact to Address Book. Funny enough, this function works fine when I'm on iCloud using the mail program within it on Safari. And these edited contacts show up fine on the iPhone and iPad, which are all on iCloud. Any advice? Thanks!

First, open Address Book on your Mac, then click Adress Book on the top bar, then click preferences. You will be taken to General, but click on Accounts. In the bottom left corner of the Preferences window, click +. Change the account type to iCloud, then enter your Apple ID/iCloud username and password, then press create, and again if it asks. Quit Address Book preferences and your iCloud contacts will appear on your Mac (If you have any already synced to iCloud).
Note: If you have some of the same contacts on your Mac as you on iCloud, you may be left with duplicates. To delete a contact, click on it to highlight it, then press function (fn) and backspace.
Hope this helps.

The Links feature in my Contacts App (Address Book) won't worked functionally !!

I dont know when, why or how but suddenly I notes that all my records on the Contacts App are linked to each other randomly !!
I have to rearrange the links again (record by record) / (contact by contact) but after a while it returning back again with the random links on some records (contacts) !!
any idea how to solve this ? it is driving me to crazy since I have more that 8,000 records in the Contact App !!
Best Regards,
Johar
Saudi Arabia

Hey Cborsotti,
Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
Currently the BlackBerry Desktop Software does support Windows Live Mail,
The following applications are supported for synchronization with BlackBerry® Desktop Software 6.1:
•IBM® Lotus Notes® 6.5.5, 7.04, 8.0.3, and 8.5.1
•Microsoft® Outlook® 2003, 2007, 2010 (32bit & 64bit mode)
•Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and Windows® Contacts (Windows Vista™ Address Book and Windows Vista Calendar, Windows 7™ Address Book)
•Novell® GroupWise® 6.5, 7
•Yahoo!®
This information can be found here: http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/KB12268
Thanks.
-HB
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