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Re: Address book anomaly

2017-12-20 Thread Stephen Chape

Brilliant Severin.
Sounds like a logical sequence.

> On 20 Dec 2017, at 7:15 pm, Severin Crisp  wrote:
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> Fixed it
> 1 turn off contacts link to cloud
> 2 select all contacts and delete 
> 3 reconnect contacts link to cloud
> 4 Bingo, single entries 
> 
> Severin Crisp 
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> On 19 Dec 2017, at 14:34, Severin Crisp  > wrote:
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>> Stephen that may be it.   When I turn off sharing with cloud the duplicates 
>> vanish but I can not see where other set comes from.  
>> Severin
>> 
>>> On 19 Dec 2017, at 14:13, Stephen Chape >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Severin.
>>> This may not be your case, but my iPhone did that recently after an update.
>>> It turned out that it was listing “from my Mac” and “from iCloud”.
>>> 
 On 19 Dec 2017, at 11:40 am, Severin Crisp > wrote:
 
 On our phone, iPads and desktops I have 5 Contacts (Address) Books all 
 shared and working fine.   Recently, by some unknown circumstance all the 
 cards on the book in my MacAir are duplicated identically.  Card/Look for 
 Duplicates insists that there are no duplicates.   I would like to fully 
 clear out the entries and let it reshare but of course High Sierra 
 security makes this difficult.  
 Suggestions please.  
 Severin Crisp
 
 
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Re: Address book anomaly

2017-12-20 Thread Severin Crisp

Fixed it
1 turn off contacts link to cloud
2 select all contacts and delete 
3 reconnect contacts link to cloud
4 Bingo, single entries 

Severin Crisp 

Sent from Sev's iPhone

> On 19 Dec 2017, at 14:34, Severin Crisp  wrote:
> 
> Stephen that may be it.   When I turn off sharing with cloud the duplicates 
> vanish but I can not see where other set comes from.  
> Severin
> 
>> On 19 Dec 2017, at 14:13, Stephen Chape  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Severin.
>> This may not be your case, but my iPhone did that recently after an update.
>> It turned out that it was listing “from my Mac” and “from iCloud”.
>> 
>>> On 19 Dec 2017, at 11:40 am, Severin Crisp  wrote:
>>> 
>>> On our phone, iPads and desktops I have 5 Contacts (Address) Books all 
>>> shared and working fine.   Recently, by some unknown circumstance all the 
>>> cards on the book in my MacAir are duplicated identically.  Card/Look for 
>>> Duplicates insists that there are no duplicates.   I would like to fully 
>>> clear out the entries and let it reshare but of course High Sierra security 
>>> makes this difficult.  
>>> Suggestions please.  
>>> Severin Crisp
>>> 
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>>>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
>>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>>>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>>> Mob  0484 624 741mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au
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Re: Address book anomaly

2017-12-18 Thread Severin Crisp

Stephen that may be it.   When I turn off sharing with cloud the duplicates 
vanish but I can not see where other set comes from.  
Severin

> On 19 Dec 2017, at 14:13, Stephen Chape  wrote:
> 
> Hi Severin.
> This may not be your case, but my iPhone did that recently after an update.
> It turned out that it was listing “from my Mac” and “from iCloud”.
> 
>> On 19 Dec 2017, at 11:40 am, Severin Crisp > > wrote:
>> 
>> On our phone, iPads and desktops I have 5 Contacts (Address) Books all 
>> shared and working fine.   Recently, by some unknown circumstance all the 
>> cards on the book in my MacAir are duplicated identically.  Card/Look for 
>> Duplicates insists that there are no duplicates.   I would like to fully 
>> clear out the entries and let it reshare but of course High Sierra security 
>> makes this difficult.  
>> Suggestions please.  
>> Severin Crisp
>> 
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>>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>> Mob  0484 624 741mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
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Re: Address book anomaly

2017-12-18 Thread Stephen Chape

Hi Severin.
This may not be your case, but my iPhone did that recently after an update.
It turned out that it was listing “from my Mac” and “from iCloud”.

> On 19 Dec 2017, at 11:40 am, Severin Crisp  wrote:
> 
> On our phone, iPads and desktops I have 5 Contacts (Address) Books all shared 
> and working fine.   Recently, by some unknown circumstance all the cards on 
> the book in my MacAir are duplicated identically.  Card/Look for Duplicates 
> insists that there are no duplicates.   I would like to fully clear out the 
> entries and let it reshare but of course High Sierra security makes this 
> difficult.  
> Suggestions please.  
> Severin Crisp
> 
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>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
> Mob  0484 624 741mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
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Re: Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Severin Crisp

Despite a restart Search for Duplicates still comes up with “No Duplicates” 
despite each card having a duplicate
Severin


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> On 19 Oct 2017, at 18:37, Ronda Brown  wrote:
> 
> Try - Run the steps again Severin.
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>  Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB 
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> On 19 Oct 2017, at 6:00 pm, Severin Crisp  > wrote:
> 
>> Interesting Ronni.   After several passes it says there are no more 
>> duplicates but in fact it is now down to two of each card!  
>> Severin
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>>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>> Mob 0484 624 741   mail  to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
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>>> On 19 Oct 2017, at 17:41, Ronni Brown >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Severin,
>>> 
>>> Using you Mac is the most efficient approach and there’s a handy tool 
>>> built-in with macOS. 
>>> NB: Don’t forget to make sure you’ve got a copy of your contacts backed up 
>>> somewhere before making changes.
>>> 
>>> 1.  Start by launching the Contacts application. 
>>> 2. Make sure All Contacts is selected in the top left corner of the window 
>>> (this will include local and cloud stored contact cards).
>>> 
>>> 3. In the menu bar click on Card → Look for Duplicates…
>>> 
>>> 4. Next, a pop up window will let you know how many duplicates will be 
>>> merged if there is different information on cards that share the same name 
>>> and also if some duplicates will just be removed (this is automatic and in 
>>> this example all the duplicates are being cleaned up by merging).
>>> 
>>> 5. Click Merge and you’re done!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ronni
>>> 
>>> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
>>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
>>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
>>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>>> 
>>> macOS High Sierra 10.13
>>> 
 On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:23 pm, Severin Crisp > wrote:
 
 I have 3 iOS devices and  2 OSX (High Sierra) desktops and all share the 
 address book.   Following some recent family messaging mixups due to 
 sharing information on single cards rather than having separate cards  
 (this is historical) I set about a clean up doing my operations on one or 
 other of the two OSX machines.  This has proceeded fine apart from the 
 fact that on my MacAir I now have four copies of each card.   I have not a 
 clue why!  The “master” information held in the cloud  is fine.   I 
 suspect the way is to reinstall OSX, maybe from the Recovery sector.  
 All advice welcome
 Severin Crisp - in quadruplicate
 
 
  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
 Mob 0484 624 741   mail  to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
 
 
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Re: Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Peter Crisp

Hi Ronni, thanks for this tip, I had 71 duplicates in the first pass before I 
did the Merge using the MBP. Following this I had a quick scan of the Contacts 
on my iPhone and noticed a duplicate there. I went back to the MBP and searched 
for that name and only there once. The name happens to be my boss (not the wife 
one but the other one at my work!!). I waited a while to see if it would 
resolve and still the duplication remains there after 10 minutes on the iPhone. 
My work uses Exchange server and the credentials in the work contact contains 
all the work related credentials for my boss, pager number, program details 
etc. On my iPhone I have in Settings>Contacts>Default Account set as iCloud and 
has been like that for ages though at some time in the past I think it was set 
as “XXX” - my work Contacts account. Is this just a time delay before the merge 
will truly merge across all linked devices or will this duplication remain 
forever - unless I do something else?

I re-ran the Look for duplicates process a second time and 5 were found. A 
third time and none found.

Regards

Pete.

> On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:41 pm, Ronni Brown  wrote:
> 
> Hi Severin,
> 
> Using you Mac is the most efficient approach and there’s a handy tool 
> built-in with macOS. 
> NB: Don’t forget to make sure you’ve got a copy of your contacts backed up 
> somewhere before making changes.
> 
> 1.  Start by launching the Contacts application. 
> 2. Make sure All Contacts is selected in the top left corner of the window 
> (this will include local and cloud stored contact cards).
> 
> 3. In the menu bar click on Card → Look for Duplicates…
> 
> 4. Next, a pop up window will let you know how many duplicates will be merged 
> if there is different information on cards that share the same name and also 
> if some duplicates will just be removed (this is automatic and in this 
> example all the duplicates are being cleaned up by merging).
> 
> 5. Click Merge and you’re done!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
> 
> macOS High Sierra 10.13
> 
>> On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:23 pm, Severin Crisp > > wrote:
>> 
>> I have 3 iOS devices and  2 OSX (High Sierra) desktops and all share the 
>> address book.   Following some recent family messaging mixups due to sharing 
>> information on single cards rather than having separate cards  (this is 
>> historical) I set about a clean up doing my operations on one or other of 
>> the two OSX machines.  This has proceeded fine apart from the fact that on 
>> my MacAir I now have four copies of each card.   I have not a clue why!  The 
>> “master” information held in the cloud  is fine.   I suspect the way is to 
>> reinstall OSX, maybe from the Recovery sector.  
>> All advice welcome
>> Severin Crisp - in quadruplicate
>> 
>> 
>>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>> Mob 0484 624 741   mail  to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
>> 
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Re: Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Severin Crisp

Interesting Ronni.   After several passes it says there are no more duplicates 
but in fact it is now down to two of each card!  
Severin


 Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
  ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
Mob 0484 624 741   mail  to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 












> On 19 Oct 2017, at 17:41, Ronni Brown  wrote:
> 
> Hi Severin,
> 
> Using you Mac is the most efficient approach and there’s a handy tool 
> built-in with macOS. 
> NB: Don’t forget to make sure you’ve got a copy of your contacts backed up 
> somewhere before making changes.
> 
> 1.  Start by launching the Contacts application. 
> 2. Make sure All Contacts is selected in the top left corner of the window 
> (this will include local and cloud stored contact cards).
> 
> 3. In the menu bar click on Card → Look for Duplicates…
> 
> 4. Next, a pop up window will let you know how many duplicates will be merged 
> if there is different information on cards that share the same name and also 
> if some duplicates will just be removed (this is automatic and in this 
> example all the duplicates are being cleaned up by merging).
> 
> 5. Click Merge and you’re done!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
> 
> macOS High Sierra 10.13
> 
>> On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:23 pm, Severin Crisp > > wrote:
>> 
>> I have 3 iOS devices and  2 OSX (High Sierra) desktops and all share the 
>> address book.   Following some recent family messaging mixups due to sharing 
>> information on single cards rather than having separate cards  (this is 
>> historical) I set about a clean up doing my operations on one or other of 
>> the two OSX machines.  This has proceeded fine apart from the fact that on 
>> my MacAir I now have four copies of each card.   I have not a clue why!  The 
>> “master” information held in the cloud  is fine.   I suspect the way is to 
>> reinstall OSX, maybe from the Recovery sector.  
>> All advice welcome
>> Severin Crisp - in quadruplicate
>> 
>> 
>>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>> Mob 0484 624 741   mail  to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
>> 
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Re: Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Ronni Brown

Hi Severin,

Using you Mac is the most efficient approach and there’s a handy tool built-in 
with macOS. 
NB: Don’t forget to make sure you’ve got a copy of your contacts backed up 
somewhere before making changes.

1.  Start by launching the Contacts application. 
2. Make sure All Contacts is selected in the top left corner of the window 
(this will include local and cloud stored contact cards).

3. In the menu bar click on Card → Look for Duplicates…

4. Next, a pop up window will let you know how many duplicates will be merged 
if there is different information on cards that share the same name and also if 
some duplicates will just be removed (this is automatic and in this example all 
the duplicates are being cleaned up by merging).

5. Click Merge and you’re done!

Cheers,
Ronni

13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

macOS High Sierra 10.13

> On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:23 pm, Severin Crisp  wrote:
> 
> I have 3 iOS devices and  2 OSX (High Sierra) desktops and all share the 
> address book.   Following some recent family messaging mixups due to sharing 
> information on single cards rather than having separate cards  (this is 
> historical) I set about a clean up doing my operations on one or other of the 
> two OSX machines.  This has proceeded fine apart from the fact that on my 
> MacAir I now have four copies of each card.   I have not a clue why!  The 
> “master” information held in the cloud  is fine.   I suspect the way is to 
> reinstall OSX, maybe from the Recovery sector.  
> All advice welcome
> Severin Crisp - in quadruplicate
> 
> 
>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
> Mob 0484 624 741   mail  to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
> 
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Re: Continual Console Log Entries re Address Book

2015-10-01 Thread Alan Smith

Any suggestions for clearing this ongoing problem?

More information found:   The associated plist has a setting for a 3600 second 
call.  As the call is happening every 30 seconds, something is wrong.  There is 
probably a Scheduler somewhere that has stored corrupt data for the call time.  
A hidden file?  The found plist filename is: System/Library/Launch Agents/ 
com.apple.AddressBook.SourceSync.plist.

More observations, but may not be relevant:  The Console log entries continued 
regularly after trashing all ~/Library/Caches, and also continued when computer 
was disconnected from the network.

Most Apple Community requests for help re "AddressBookSourceSync" refer to 
system memory avalanche problems while connected to iCloud.  I am normally  
“permanently” signed out of iCloud, but even when signed in I did not notice 
any significant CPU usage.

Cheers
Alan

> On 27 Sep 2015, at 5:54 pm, Alan Smith  wrote:
> 
> The iMac Console Diagnostic and Usage Messages log is recording the same pair 
> of entries every 30 seconds.  I would expect that an entry at hourly or 
> longer intervals would be normal.  How can I fix this?
> 
> The first message (preceded by date and time) is:-
>   AddressBookSourceSync: com.apple.message.domain: 
> com.apple.AddressBook.accounts.providers
> and the second is:-
>   AddressBookSourceSync: com.apple.message.domain: 
> com.apple.AddressBook.accounts.summary
> 
> Both entries have several lines of detail exposed with the flippy triangle.   
> The “provider” details include:-
>   com.apple.message.signature: com.apple.google.iaplugin
> 
> Regards, 
> Alan
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Continual Console Log Entries re Address Book

2015-09-27 Thread Alan Smith

The iMac Console Diagnostic and Usage Messages log is recording the same pair 
of entries every 30 seconds.  I would expect that an entry at hourly or longer 
intervals would be normal.  How can I fix this?

The first message (preceded by date and time) is:-
   AddressBookSourceSync: com.apple.message.domain: 
com.apple.AddressBook.accounts.providers
and the second is:-
   AddressBookSourceSync: com.apple.message.domain: 
com.apple.AddressBook.accounts.summary

Both entries have several lines of detail exposed with the flippy triangle.   
The “provider” details include:-
   com.apple.message.signature: com.apple.google.iaplugin

Regards, 
Alan

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Re: Address Book gone

2014-04-13 Thread Ronni Brown

On 14 Apr 2014, at 11:51 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote:

 Looks like the upgrade to Mavericks has destroyed my Address Book ( where 
 100’s of emails were stored).  Looks like it got replaced with a collection 
 from my iPhone, most of which have no emails.  Is the original file 
 recoverable?
 
 Bill

Hi Bill,

Sounds like you might not have setup iCloud correctly on your Mac and iPhone.
Is Calendar syncing correctly on your Mac  iPhone?

In Mavericks v.10.9 or later, your Contacts, Calendars, and other info are 
updated on your computers and iOS devices via iCloud. 
Only Contacts in iCloud will sync.  Contacts which are local to your computer 
do NOT sync.

* Only Calendars and Contacts in iCloud groups will sync.

I posted this information to WAMUG just before Mavericks was released:
/Quote:
Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first 
doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup  checking 
that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks.

Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an 
iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like 
contacts or calendars,...
Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services.
“Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still 
use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS 
devices”

“The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via 
Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS 
devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your 
Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an 
Exchange server”

“You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by 
the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.”

For more information, see OS X Mavericks: Keep content current on all your 
devices with iCloud http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14354


Bill, If you wish to have a copy of my two Tutorials: Setup iCloud on a Mac 
and iOS Devices.pdf and Calendar  Contacts Not Syncing to iCloud.pdfemail 
me offlist and I will post to you. If you find my Tutorials helpful a donation 
is very much appreciated.

Bill, If you are sure you do have iCloud setup correctly on your Mac  
iDevices, post back.

Cheers,
Ronni

17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks
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Re: Address Book in Mountain Lion Mail ?

2013-01-03 Thread Ronda Brown

Hi Stephen,

Not sure exactly what you mean or are trying to do. If you are trying to send
an email from a contact in your Contact.app:

1. Open Contact.app
2. Select the Contact you want
3. Click on the work, or home, or email button - to the left of the email
address you wish to use
You will then see these options:
Send Email, FaceTime, Send Message, Send My Card, Search with Spotlight.
4 Select 'Send Email' if that is what you are wanting to do, Mail application
will immediately open with the address of the contact in To:

If this is not what you are meaning post back with more detail.

Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4

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Hi folks,

In Snow Leopard I could choose the addresses to send to from Address Book.
Now I have ML I don't seem to have that option and I cannot find how to add
it.
Is it not available or am I suffering fem temporary blindness ?

Regards,
Stephen Chape

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Re: Address Book in Mountain Lion Mail ?

2013-01-03 Thread Stephen Chape

Sorry Ronda - I must have been a bit vague.
Had day surgery today and I am a little sore.

When in Mail in SL I was able to select contacts by clicking a button.
This opened the Contacts list.
Then simply double click each address I wished to send to.
As I did so each was placed into the TO box.

I cannot see this facility in ML.
So I do not have a prompt to help me place addresses in the TO box.

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Hi Stephen,

Not sure exactly what you mean or are trying to do. If you are trying to send
an email from a contact in your Contact.app:

If this is not what you are meaning post back with more detail.

Cheers,
Ronni

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Re: Address Book in Mountain Lion Mail ?

2013-01-03 Thread Ronni Brown

Ah ok Stephen,

I think what you are meaning to find is Address Panel.

Mail relies on the system-wide Contacts app to store frequently used email
addresses. If you haven’t already filled in Contacts with your most frequently
used email addresses, consider doing so—it will make your life a lot easier.

In Mail, you can address your email 'manually', using the Address Panel (which
provides a little portal to Contacts), or using 'Automatic Address Completion'.

A) Automatic Address Completion:

If you type the first few letters of a person’s first or last name or email
address, or a group’s name, in the desired field (To, Cc, or Bcc), Mail
automatically displays all matching entries from Contacts, your Previous
Recipients list, any Exchange server to which you’re connected, and any defined
LDAP servers. Then you can use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the one you
want, press Return, and you’re done.

Automatic address completion is on by default, and when it works
well, it is certainly an easy way to address messages; however before you
decide to use it unthinkingly Address Panel

B) Address Panel:
Another way to address an email message is to find the desired address(es) in
the Address Panel. Here’s how:

1. Working in an outgoing message, if the Address panel isn’t already open,
open it by choosing Window Address Panel.

2. If you can’t easily find the email address or group you want, search by name
or address using the handy Search field at the upper right.

3. Once you locate the address or group, select it (or Command-click to select
multiple addresses).

4. To address your message, either click the To, Cc, or Bcc button or drag the
selected items to an address field in the message window.

Cheers,
Ronni

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Sorry Ronda - I must have been a bit vague.
Had day surgery today and I am a little sore.

I cannot see this facility in ML.
So I do not have a prompt to help me place addresses in the TO box.

On 03/01/2013, at 4:36 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

Hi Stephen,

Not sure exactly what you mean or are trying to do. If you are trying to
send an email from a contact in your Contact.app:

1. Open Contact.app
2. Select the Contact you want
3. Click on the work, or home, or email button - to the left of the email
address you wish to use
You will then see these options:
Send Email, FaceTime, Send Message, Send My Card, Search with Spotlight.
4 Select 'Send Email' if that is what you are wanting to do, Mail
application will immediately open with the address of the contact in To:

If this is not what you are meaning post back with more detail.

Cheers,
Ronni

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Hi folks,

Regards,
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Re: Address Book

2012-05-25 Thread Ronda Brown

Hi David,

What OS X are you running?

To transfer Address Book data across.
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
 
If you have any Address Book Plugins 
/Home/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins (copy the whole folder)

Place the folders in the same location in your Wife's Home Account.

Cheers,
Ronni

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2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

OS X 10.7.4 Lion
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)

On 25/05/2012, at 5:14 PM, David Wood wrote:

 Hi,
 I am setting up my iMac for my wife as a new user there are certain things I 
 would like to transfer, in particular our Address Book... can someone please 
 advise the simplest way todo this please.
 
 Many thanks,
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Re: Address Book

2012-05-25 Thread Robin Belford

Address book does have an export and import option. I'd recommend doing that 
first.

r

On 25/05/2012, at 5:34 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

 Hi David,
 
 What OS X are you running?
 
 To transfer Address Book data across.
 /Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
 
 If you have any Address Book Plugins 
 /Home/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins (copy the whole folder)
 
 Place the folders in the same location in your Wife's Home Account.
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 
 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
 
 OS X 10.7.4 Lion
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
 
 On 25/05/2012, at 5:14 PM, David Wood wrote:
 
 Hi,
 I am setting up my iMac for my wife as a new user there are certain things I 
 would like to transfer, in particular our Address Book... can someone please 
 advise the simplest way todo this please.
 
 Many thanks,
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Re: Address Book

2012-05-25 Thread David Wood

Thanks Ronni running OSX 10.7.4
Will try the transfer tomorrow and let you know how I get on.
David

Sent from my iPad

On 25/05/2012, at 5:34 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Hi David,
 
 What OS X are you running?
 
 To transfer Address Book data across.
 /Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
 
 If you have any Address Book Plugins 
 /Home/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins (copy the whole folder)
 
 Place the folders in the same location in your Wife's Home Account.
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 
 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
 
 OS X 10.7.4 Lion
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
 
 On 25/05/2012, at 5:14 PM, David Wood wrote:
 
 Hi,
 I am setting up my iMac for my wife as a new user there are certain things I 
 would like to transfer, in particular our Address Book... can someone please 
 advise the simplest way todo this please.
 
 Many thanks,
 David
 
 
 
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Re: Address Book

2012-05-25 Thread Stuart Breden

In a similar vein.

How do you copy same address book contacts etc to various devices e.g. iPhone, 
home iMac work iMace etc and keep them all up to date if you edit something on 
one device?

Stuart Breden
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On 25/05/2012, at 10:44 PM, David Wood wrote:

 Thanks Ronni running OSX 10.7.4
 Will try the transfer tomorrow and let you know how I get on.
 David
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
 On 25/05/2012, at 5:34 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 
 Hi David,
 
 What OS X are you running?
 
 To transfer Address Book data across.
 /Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
 
 If you have any Address Book Plugins 
 /Home/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins (copy the whole folder)
 
 Place the folders in the same location in your Wife's Home Account.
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 
 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
 
 OS X 10.7.4 Lion
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
 
 On 25/05/2012, at 5:14 PM, David Wood wrote:
 
 Hi,
 I am setting up my iMac for my wife as a new user there are certain things 
 I would like to transfer, in particular our Address Book... can someone 
 please advise the simplest way todo this please.
 
 Many thanks,
 David
 
 
 
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Re: Address Book

2012-05-25 Thread Tim Law

You sync it via iCloud.

On iPhone iPad, go to settings, iCloud, and slide to ON, all the apps you want 
to sync. Similar actions will be required on your desktop machines, and I'll 
that little exercise for you to do, I'm on my iPad watching morning TV

TIM

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On 26/05/2012, at 8:29 AM, Stuart Breden bred...@highway1.biz wrote:

 In a similar vein.
 
 How do you copy same address book contacts etc to various devices e.g. 
 iPhone, home iMac work iMace etc and keep them all up to date if you edit 
 something on one device?
 
 Stuart Breden
 PO Box 132
 Kalamunda WA 6926
 Ph: (08) 9257 1577
 Mbl: 0417 053 266
 
 Please consider the environment before printing this email
 
 
 
 
 On 25/05/2012, at 10:44 PM, David Wood wrote:
 
 Thanks Ronni running OSX 10.7.4
 Will try the transfer tomorrow and let you know how I get on.
 David
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
 On 25/05/2012, at 5:34 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 
 Hi David,
 
 What OS X are you running?
 
 To transfer Address Book data across.
 /Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
 
 If you have any Address Book Plugins 
 /Home/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins (copy the whole folder)
 
 Place the folders in the same location in your Wife's Home Account.
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 
 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
 
 OS X 10.7.4 Lion
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
 
 On 25/05/2012, at 5:14 PM, David Wood wrote:
 
 Hi,
 I am setting up my iMac for my wife as a new user there are certain things 
 I would like to transfer, in particular our Address Book... can someone 
 please advise the simplest way todo this please.
 
 Many thanks,
 David
 
 
 
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Re: Address Book

2012-05-25 Thread Alexander Hartner

You could also try out http://www.addressbookserver.com


On 05/26/12 08:29, Stuart Breden wrote:
 In a similar vein.

 How do you copy same address book contacts etc to various devices e.g. 
 iPhone, home iMac work iMace etc and keep them all up to date if you edit 
 something on one device?

 Stuart Breden
 PO Box 132
 Kalamunda WA 6926
 Ph: (08) 9257 1577
 Mbl: 0417 053 266

 Please consider the environment before printing this email




 On 25/05/2012, at 10:44 PM, David Wood wrote:

 Thanks Ronni running OSX 10.7.4
 Will try the transfer tomorrow and let you know how I get on.
 David

 Sent from my iPad

 On 25/05/2012, at 5:34 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Hi David,

 What OS X are you running?

 To transfer Address Book data across.
 /Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)

 If you have any Address Book Plugins 
 /Home/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins (copy the whole folder)

 Place the folders in the same location in your Wife's Home Account.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

 OS X 10.7.4 Lion
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)

 On 25/05/2012, at 5:14 PM, David Wood wrote:

 Hi,
 I am setting up my iMac for my wife as a new user there are certain things 
 I would like to transfer, in particular our Address Book... can someone 
 please advise the simplest way todo this please.

 Many thanks,
 David



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Re: Address book

2010-12-06 Thread Stuart Breden

Had not thought of that Peter.  Very good suggestion.  I'll see if it  
works.


Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
Kalamunda WA 6926
Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Mbl: 0417 053 266



On 06/12/2010, at 8:48 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:



On 03/12/2010, at 11:38 AM, Justin Davies wrote:

Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address  
book to csv works for me

Best regards



Don't forget that if you have a copy of Bento, all you need to do is  
access the Address Book library which is part of the native setup of  
Bento. This is an exact duplicate of your Address Book file, and  
Bento can export it to .csv with ease.



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Re: Address book

2010-12-05 Thread Stuart Breden


Thanks!

Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
Kalamunda WA 6926
Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Mbl: 0417 053 266



On 04/12/2010, at 5:38 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

Sorry Stuart, I hit send  then realised I wanted to explain a bit  
more.
This used to be a function of one of the first OS X's... there was  
actually a BT icon in AB when you paired a mobile device.

It disappeared on the next version of X.

Cheers,
Ronni

Hi Stuart,

 This is a function of AddressBook 4 and  Not AddressBook 5.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad1057.html 



Cheers,
Ronni

On 04/12/2010, at 5:19 PM, Stuart Breden wrote:



Talking about Address Book, is there an address book that you dial  
the telephone number either landline or mobile from with in the  
address book?


Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
Kalamunda WA 6926
Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Mbl: 0417 053 266



On 03/12/2010, at 5:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:



Hi Justin,

In AddressBook2CSV Exporter, if you click on the minus ( - ) sign  
beside Export,
you can then select what you wish see in the export i.e. email,  
phones, title, addresses.

But yes, I do agree it doesn't do as good a job as others.

Looking in my Applications folder, I actually found that I had a  
paid copy of Export Address Book.app, that I must have used ages  
ago.
Gave it another try and was quite pleased with the result, but  
I'll give your suggestion of 'Address Book Exporter' a try (when I  
next find time) ;-)


Below are details of 'Export Address Book' which I have used before.
Export Address Book 1.5.3

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/exportaddressbook.html 



About Export Address Book:
Can export all the data in your Address Book into a data file. It  
even recognizes fields with self-defined labels. You can choose  
between various export formats, like TSV, CSV, HTML table and  
adapted vCard (in Address Book, you cannot specify which fields to  
export when you create a vCard - in Export Address Book, you can).


You are able to select which contacts to export, which fields from  
those contacts and how to order them. For later reuse, you can  
save all of that as a template. In Address Book, you can assign  
self-defined labels to various fields. Export Address Book can  
recognize and export fields with self-defined labels. With the  
built-in Automator action, you can automate exports.


http://www.subclassed.com/software/export_address_book/details

Cheers,
Ronni

On 03/12/2010, at 5:00 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:



Thanks Justin, Ronni,

I used this one: http://gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html
With a cut down set of fields (just the ones needed) it was  
perfect.


Ronni, I tried the AddressBook2CSV Exporter, but the CSV was  
unusable.

The multi line fields threw it right off.

Glenn Nicholas
OM4



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Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address  
book to

csv works for me

Best regards


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Re: Address book

2010-12-05 Thread Peter Hinchliffe


On 03/12/2010, at 11:38 AM, Justin Davies wrote:

 Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address book to 
 csv works for me
 Best regards
 

Don't forget that if you have a copy of Bento, all you need to do is access the 
Address Book library which is part of the native setup of Bento. This is an 
exact duplicate of your Address Book file, and Bento can export it to .csv with 
ease. 


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Re: Address book

2010-12-04 Thread Stuart Breden



Talking about Address Book, is there an address book that you dial the  
telephone number either landline or mobile from with in the address  
book?


Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
Kalamunda WA 6926
Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Mbl: 0417 053 266



On 03/12/2010, at 5:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:



Hi Justin,

In AddressBook2CSV Exporter, if you click on the minus ( - ) sign  
beside Export,
you can then select what you wish see in the export i.e. email,  
phones, title, addresses.

But yes, I do agree it doesn't do as good a job as others.

Looking in my Applications folder, I actually found that I had a  
paid copy of Export Address Book.app, that I must have used ages ago.
Gave it another try and was quite pleased with the result, but I'll  
give your suggestion of 'Address Book Exporter' a try (when I next  
find time) ;-)


Below are details of 'Export Address Book' which I have used before.
Export Address Book 1.5.3

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/exportaddressbook.html 



About Export Address Book:
Can export all the data in your Address Book into a data file. It  
even recognizes fields with self-defined labels. You can choose  
between various export formats, like TSV, CSV, HTML table and  
adapted vCard (in Address Book, you cannot specify which fields to  
export when you create a vCard - in Export Address Book, you can).


You are able to select which contacts to export, which fields from  
those contacts and how to order them. For later reuse, you can save  
all of that as a template. In Address Book, you can assign self- 
defined labels to various fields. Export Address Book can recognize  
and export fields with self-defined labels. With the built-in  
Automator action, you can automate exports.


http://www.subclassed.com/software/export_address_book/details

Cheers,
Ronni

On 03/12/2010, at 5:00 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:



Thanks Justin, Ronni,

I used this one: http://gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html
With a cut down set of fields (just the ones needed) it was perfect.

Ronni, I tried the AddressBook2CSV Exporter, but the CSV was  
unusable.

The multi line fields threw it right off.

Glenn Nicholas
OM4



On 3 December 2010 11:38, Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au  
wrote:
Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address  
book to

csv works for me

Best regards


Justin Davies

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Re: Address book

2010-12-04 Thread Ronda Brown

Hi Stuart,

 This is a function of AddressBook 4 and  Not AddressBook 5.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad1057.html

Cheers,
Ronni

On 04/12/2010, at 5:19 PM, Stuart Breden wrote:

 
 Talking about Address Book, is there an address book that you dial the 
 telephone number either landline or mobile from with in the address book?
 
 Stuart Breden
 PO Box 132
 Kalamunda WA 6926
 Ph: (08) 9257 1577
 Mbl: 0417 053 266
 
 
 
 On 03/12/2010, at 5:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
 
 
 Hi Justin,
 
 In AddressBook2CSV Exporter, if you click on the minus ( - ) sign beside 
 Export,
 you can then select what you wish see in the export i.e. email, phones, 
 title, addresses.
 But yes, I do agree it doesn't do as good a job as others.
 
 Looking in my Applications folder, I actually found that I had a paid copy 
 of Export Address Book.app, that I must have used ages ago.
 Gave it another try and was quite pleased with the result, but I'll give 
 your suggestion of 'Address Book Exporter' a try (when I next find time) ;-)
 
 Below are details of 'Export Address Book' which I have used before.
 Export Address Book 1.5.3
 
 http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/exportaddressbook.html
 
 About Export Address Book:
 Can export all the data in your Address Book into a data file. It even 
 recognizes fields with self-defined labels. You can choose between various 
 export formats, like TSV, CSV, HTML table and adapted vCard (in Address 
 Book, you cannot specify which fields to export when you create a vCard - in 
 Export Address Book, you can).
 
 You are able to select which contacts to export, which fields from those 
 contacts and how to order them. For later reuse, you can save all of that as 
 a template. In Address Book, you can assign self-defined labels to various 
 fields. Export Address Book can recognize and export fields with 
 self-defined labels. With the built-in Automator action, you can automate 
 exports.
 
 http://www.subclassed.com/software/export_address_book/details
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 
 On 03/12/2010, at 5:00 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:
 
 
 Thanks Justin, Ronni,
 
 I used this one: http://gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html
 With a cut down set of fields (just the ones needed) it was perfect.
 
 Ronni, I tried the AddressBook2CSV Exporter, but the CSV was unusable.
 The multi line fields threw it right off.
 
 Glenn Nicholas
 OM4
 
 
 
 On 3 December 2010 11:38, Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au wrote:
 Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address book to
 csv works for me
 
 Best regards
 
 
 Justin Davies
 
 www.justindavies.com.au
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Address book

2010-12-04 Thread Ronda Brown

Sorry Stuart, I hit send  then realised I wanted to explain a bit more.
This used to be a function of one of the first OS X's... there was actually a 
BT icon in AB when you paired a mobile device. 
It disappeared on the next version of X. 

Cheers,
Ronni

Hi Stuart,

 This is a function of AddressBook 4 and  Not AddressBook 5.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad1057.html

Cheers,
Ronni

On 04/12/2010, at 5:19 PM, Stuart Breden wrote:

 
 Talking about Address Book, is there an address book that you dial the 
 telephone number either landline or mobile from with in the address book?
 
 Stuart Breden
 PO Box 132
 Kalamunda WA 6926
 Ph: (08) 9257 1577
 Mbl: 0417 053 266
 
 
 
 On 03/12/2010, at 5:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
 
 
 Hi Justin,
 
 In AddressBook2CSV Exporter, if you click on the minus ( - ) sign beside 
 Export,
 you can then select what you wish see in the export i.e. email, phones, 
 title, addresses.
 But yes, I do agree it doesn't do as good a job as others.
 
 Looking in my Applications folder, I actually found that I had a paid copy 
 of Export Address Book.app, that I must have used ages ago.
 Gave it another try and was quite pleased with the result, but I'll give 
 your suggestion of 'Address Book Exporter' a try (when I next find time) ;-)
 
 Below are details of 'Export Address Book' which I have used before.
 Export Address Book 1.5.3
 
 http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/exportaddressbook.html
 
 About Export Address Book:
 Can export all the data in your Address Book into a data file. It even 
 recognizes fields with self-defined labels. You can choose between various 
 export formats, like TSV, CSV, HTML table and adapted vCard (in Address 
 Book, you cannot specify which fields to export when you create a vCard - in 
 Export Address Book, you can).
 
 You are able to select which contacts to export, which fields from those 
 contacts and how to order them. For later reuse, you can save all of that as 
 a template. In Address Book, you can assign self-defined labels to various 
 fields. Export Address Book can recognize and export fields with 
 self-defined labels. With the built-in Automator action, you can automate 
 exports.
 
 http://www.subclassed.com/software/export_address_book/details
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 
 On 03/12/2010, at 5:00 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:
 
 
 Thanks Justin, Ronni,
 
 I used this one: http://gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html
 With a cut down set of fields (just the ones needed) it was perfect.
 
 Ronni, I tried the AddressBook2CSV Exporter, but the CSV was unusable.
 The multi line fields threw it right off.
 
 Glenn Nicholas
 OM4
 
 
 
 On 3 December 2010 11:38, Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au wrote:
 Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address book to
 csv works for me
 
 Best regards
 
 
 Justin Davies
 
 www.justindavies.com.au
 
 




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Re: Address book

2010-12-03 Thread Glenn Nicholas


Thanks Justin, Ronni,

I used this one: http://gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html
With a cut down set of fields (just the ones needed) it was perfect.

Ronni, I tried the AddressBook2CSV Exporter, but the CSV was unusable.
The multi line fields threw it right off.

Glenn Nicholas
OM4



On 3 December 2010 11:38, Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au wrote:
 Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address book to
 csv works for me

 Best regards


 Justin Davies

 www.justindavies.com.au





 
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Re: Address book

2010-12-03 Thread Ronda Brown


Hi Justin,

In AddressBook2CSV Exporter, if you click on the minus ( - ) sign beside 
Export, 
you can then select what you wish see in the export i.e. email, phones, title, 
addresses. 
But yes, I do agree it doesn't do as good a job as others.

Looking in my Applications folder, I actually found that I had a paid copy of 
Export Address Book.app, that I must have used ages ago.
Gave it another try and was quite pleased with the result, but I'll give your 
suggestion of 'Address Book Exporter' a try (when I next find time) ;-)

Below are details of 'Export Address Book' which I have used before.
Export Address Book 1.5.3

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/exportaddressbook.html

About Export Address Book:
Can export all the data in your Address Book into a data file. It even 
recognizes fields with self-defined labels. You can choose between various 
export formats, like TSV, CSV, HTML table and adapted vCard (in Address Book, 
you cannot specify which fields to export when you create a vCard - in Export 
Address Book, you can). 

You are able to select which contacts to export, which fields from those 
contacts and how to order them. For later reuse, you can save all of that as a 
template. In Address Book, you can assign self-defined labels to various 
fields. Export Address Book can recognize and export fields with self-defined 
labels. With the built-in Automator action, you can automate exports.

http://www.subclassed.com/software/export_address_book/details

Cheers,
Ronni

On 03/12/2010, at 5:00 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:

 
 Thanks Justin, Ronni,
 
 I used this one: http://gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html
 With a cut down set of fields (just the ones needed) it was perfect.
 
 Ronni, I tried the AddressBook2CSV Exporter, but the CSV was unusable.
 The multi line fields threw it right off.
 
 Glenn Nicholas
 OM4
 
 
 
 On 3 December 2010 11:38, Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au wrote:
 Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address book to
 csv works for me
 
 Best regards
 
 
 Justin Davies
 
 www.justindavies.com.au
 
 




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Re: Address book

2010-12-02 Thread Ronda Brown


On 03/12/2010, at 11:38 AM, Justin Davies wrote:

 Glenn, try using address book exporter to export from address book to 
 csv works for me
 Best regards
 
 
 
 Justin Davies
 www.justindavies.com.au   
 

Hi Glenn  Justin,

Justin, I'm not sure if you meant this application. I've used it a few times, 
works well. Exports to .csv, then I click on the .csv file, Numbers opens and 
there is my contacts all in a Spreadsheet. Works in Snow Leopard also.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21654/address-book-to-csv-exporter

Cheers,
Ronni

17 MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
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Re: Address Book snowed

2009-09-09 Thread Ronda Brown




On 09/09/2009, at 2:05 PM, Paul Weaver wrote:



Installed Snow Leopard OK but addresses in Address Book have gone. I  
have a backup of addresses but when I tried to import there was  
still no data showing.  I tried importing to a new account on the  
same machine and there were no problems. On the account where  
Address Book is having problems the application is hanging and has  
to be force quitted.  So the question is please, how do I restore  
the Address Book app on that account, bearing in mind that it's  
working ok on another account on the same machine?


I have also repaired permissions with no joy.


Hi Paul,

You say you have a backup of your previous AddressBook folder.

1.Locate in Home  Library  Application Support  AddressBook folder  
in your previous home folder.
2.Copy that folder to the same location in your new home folder,  
replacing the AddressBook folder there.

3.Open Address Book.

See if your Address Book works then and has all your contacts.



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Re: Address Book snowed

2009-09-09 Thread Alexander Hartner


Depending on how many contacts you have in the backup it may take some
time. What I suggest is you close Address Book, reboot the Mac and then
restore again. Don't open Address Book before restoring, just click on the
backup file. Then go for a cup of coffee or something. When you get back
your contacts should be there. If nothing happens after like 10-15 mins
then try more drastic measures.

Regards
Alex



 On 09/09/2009, at 2:05 PM, Paul Weaver wrote:


 Installed Snow Leopard OK but addresses in Address Book have gone. I
 have a backup of addresses but when I tried to import there was
 still no data showing.  I tried importing to a new account on the
 same machine and there were no problems. On the account where
 Address Book is having problems the application is hanging and has
 to be force quitted.  So the question is please, how do I restore
 the Address Book app on that account, bearing in mind that it's
 working ok on another account on the same machine?

 I have also repaired permissions with no joy.

 Hi Paul,

 You say you have a backup of your previous AddressBook folder.

 1.Locate in Home  Library  Application Support  AddressBook folder
 in your previous home folder.
 2.Copy that folder to the same location in your new home folder,
 replacing the AddressBook folder there.
 3.Open Address Book.

 See if your Address Book works then and has all your contacts.



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Re: Address Book snowed

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Weaver


The backup I have is an exported .abbu file of a couple of hundred contacts.  
They imported okay on the other account, and on another machine, but not with 
the most used account.  I tried moving a complete Application 
support/AddressBookfolder from the other account but it was rejected.  I see 
there is a file named Configuration.plist.  Should I try deleting that?

Paul.


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Re: Address Book snowed

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Weaver


With the folder exchange, I tried replacing the old folder with a copy of the 
one from the other account.  Maybe I should have deleted the old one first and 
dragged the new one in?

Paul. 


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Re: Address Book snowed

2009-09-09 Thread Ronda Brown




On 09/09/2009, at 5:47 PM, Paul Weaver wrote:

The backup I have is an exported .abbu file of a couple of hundred  
contacts.  They imported okay on the other account, and on another  
machine, but not with the most used account.  I tried moving a  
complete Application support/AddressBookfolder from the other  
account but it was rejected.


Was this Other account Your Account? Otherwise it would be  
rejected possibly as you wouldn't have correct permissions.
What was the error you received when you tried to replace the  
Application Support/AddressBook folder?


My original instructions were for Your Address Book backup folder to  
be copied to the same location in your new home folder, replacing the  
AddressBook folder there.

---
Another suggestion you could try is:

1. Select all your contacts (from the Address Book that is functioning  
correctly) and drag them to the desktop.

   This will make one big vCard with all your contacts on the desktop.

2. Move it to your Account and drop it on the address book there.

If you can’t import because of permissions errors.
In the Finder, select the vCard file you’re trying to import and  
choose File  Get Info.
In the Sharing  Permissions section, choose Read  Write from the  
Privilege pop-up menu


 I see there is a file named Configuration.plist.  Should I try  
deleting that?


No.

Cheers,
Ronni

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Re: Address Book snowed (The fix)

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Weaver


Thank you to all for the suggestions received about this problem.  Here is how 
I fixed it.

I created a test account and had a look at what existed before Address Book had 
been opened.  I determined that the entire folder called AddressBook at 
Library/Application Support is not created until the first time Address Book is 
opened.  I dragged in a good AddressBook folder copied from another account and 
the Address Book application immediately adopted it when booted.

I then went into the problematic account and removed the dodgy AddressBook 
folder to Trash and restarted the computer.  Repeating the previously tested 
sequence, I placed the known-to-be-good AddressBook folder into 
Library/Application Suppport.  It has again been adopted okay. Phew. Another 
triumph for humans over machines.

The incident appears to have happened to me as a result of the Snow Leopard 
install.  I suggest people who are yet to install Snow Leopard first make a 
copy of the entire AddressBook folder and/or do an exported copy of the list of 
contacts.  This option is found under the pull-down menu ‘File.’  A exported 
list done a couple of days before my Snow Leopard install saved my bacon.

Kind wishes, Paul.


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Re: Address Book snowed (The fix)

2009-09-09 Thread Ronda Brown




On 10/09/2009, at 10:52 AM, Paul Weaver wrote:



Thank you to all for the suggestions received about this problem.   
Here is how I fixed it.


I created a test account and had a look at what existed before  
Address Book had been opened.  I determined that the entire folder  
called AddressBook at Library/Application Support is not created  
until the first time Address Book is opened.  I dragged in a good  
AddressBook folder copied from another account and the Address Book  
application immediately adopted it when booted.


I then went into the problematic account and removed the dodgy  
AddressBook folder to Trash and restarted the computer.  Repeating  
the previously tested sequence, I placed the known-to-be-good  
AddressBook folder into Library/Application Suppport.  It has again  
been adopted okay. Phew. Another triumph for humans over machines.


The incident appears to have happened to me as a result of the Snow  
Leopard install.  I suggest people who are yet to install Snow  
Leopard first make a copy of the entire AddressBook folder and/or do  
an exported copy of the list of contacts.  This option is found  
under the pull-down menu ‘File.’  A exported list done a couple of  
days before my Snow Leopard install saved my bacon.


Kind wishes, Paul.


Hi Paul,

This is why we are always advising people on WAMUG list to BACKUP  
before doing a system upgrade.
Back on 25th August I sent a post to WAMUG with suggestions How to  
Prepare for installing Snow Leopard   Make sure that before doing  
the Upgrade you do a BACKUP!


We can't do more than suggest people Back Up, if people don't take  
our advise .?


Cheers,
Ronni

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2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
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Re: Address Book snowed (The fix)

2009-09-09 Thread Daniel Kerr


Hi Paul

Glad you got the AddressBook working, which was the same way Ronni had
suggested as well.

I would also agree that anyone doing a Snow Leopard update would backup
their data. 
I would also go further and suggest people ensure that they've checked
compatibility of their apps they are using. And if aware of any third
party cool helpful apps that are installed. As it's normally these
weird and wonderful things that can often make the installation process go
astray.
If you're running a clean system and follow all the steps then I've found
everything goes well with no problems. The problems arise when there are
lots of other things installed.

But yes, if you follow the steps and do some of the research/tidy up before
hand the Snow Leopard install goes well.
There are some quite nice things inside it, especially start up and shut
down times...as well as a lot more.


Just my 2cents worth. :)

Kind Regards
Daniel


On 10/9/09 10:52 AM, Paul Weaver pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote:

 
 Thank you to all for the suggestions received about this problem.  Here is how
 I fixed it.
 
 I created a test account and had a look at what existed before Address Book
 had been opened.  I determined that the entire folder called AddressBook at
 Library/Application Support is not created until the first time Address Book
 is opened.  I dragged in a good AddressBook folder copied from another account
 and the Address Book application immediately adopted it when booted.
 
 I then went into the problematic account and removed the dodgy AddressBook
 folder to Trash and restarted the computer.  Repeating the previously tested
 sequence, I placed the known-to-be-good AddressBook folder into
 Library/Application Suppport.  It has again been adopted okay. Phew. Another
 triumph for humans over machines.
 
 The incident appears to have happened to me as a result of the Snow Leopard
 install.  I suggest people who are yet to install Snow Leopard first make a
 copy of the entire AddressBook folder and/or do an exported copy of the list
 of contacts.  This option is found under the pull-down menu File.¹  A
 exported list done a couple of days before my Snow Leopard install saved my
 bacon.
 
 Kind wishes, Paul.
 

---
Daniel Kerr
MacWizardry

Phone: 0414 795 960
Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au
Web:   http://www.macwizardry.com.au


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