Comments on: Address Book: Picked Last for Kickball

By: His_wife22

His_wife22 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:13:29 +0000

And I am not a rarity, it was common. ,

By: zukeeper

zukeeper — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:05:27 +0000

I love AB too. Really, I do.
The main irritant however, is it’s inability to make template changes apply to existing entries. I’m always tweaking the template, adding additional custom fields. I’d love to have the changes I make to the template be available to existing contacts. For some reason, they only seem to show up when I’m making a new entry. This drives me nuts. for example, I’ve added a Flickr url field last week. Today, my friend Bob shared his Flickr site with me, and I’d like to add that to his AB entry. However, when I’m in edit mode, the Flickr field won’t show up. Seems I only have one chance to have it available, and if that field is left blank, you have to manually enter it as a custom field when you want to edit the contact later. This needs a fix. Or is there one? Anyone?

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:02:54 +0000

Thanks for the post. I'm a new mac user, and I find Address Book frustratingly close to the usable/unusable line. I ranted a bit about it here. Also, I wish the Quicksilver plugin for AB supported creating a new contact based on text. Auto-recognition of emails, addresses, and phone numbers (like what the new Mail.app tries to do) would be *awesome*. Thanks for the post.

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:44:35 +0000

I haven’t tried this but there apparently is a way to see Google Contacts in AB. It’s a one way deal though, you can’t edit them. The tip is at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200703080908446&query=google%2Bcontacts

By: Vladimir Campos

Vladimir Campos — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:29:21 +0000

I love AB, but am using it less and less because I can’t sync it to Google Contacts. :(

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:05:34 +0000

I just got a Motorola Razr and am extremely dissappointed that it doesn’t sync with address book. I had a Nokia and it worked great. I loved being able to send SMS messages through my phone. Apparently Motorola is pisses about the whole iPhone thing. That and the fact that Apple switched to Intel chips. Does anyone know of a plugin or hack?

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:08:09 +0000

Jay (#47) I think I have successfully modified part of my Birthday Greeting project to send contact information via email. If you will email me I can send a sample of the output to see if it meets your needs

slydude at gmail.com

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:55:31 +0000

I was cruising the web looking for more AB actions for Automator when I stumbled on this page. Imagine my surprise to discover my Birthday Greetings article mentioned. The more I use AB the more I like it.

Now what can I think of next?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:04:53 +0000

I saved my address data file on an external drive. I’m trying to retrieve the data from another computer but can’t seem to get the data into that computer’s address book. How do I do this??

By: Jim Bates

Jim Bates — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:36:15 +0000

Greetings:

I am looking for some way to unlock custom fields in Apple’s Address Book. Since you’re Address Book LDAP is so popular, I figured you’re familiar with programming, or changing, AB.

I know that Address Book, or at least Sync Services, keeps track of Custom Fields, because they appear in other apps.

I know Apple has Custom fields listed in their Contacts Schema (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SyncServicesSchemaRef/Articles/Contacts.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001541-209998).

But in Address Book>Preferences>Template>there is no “Custom” Field, not even grayed out.

Address Book’s existing Relationship fields just won’t cut it.

Who can help me get Address Book to show the existing Custom fields that are already there, but hidden?

Thanks,

Jim

By: ben

ben — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:35:32 +0000

and if you want it to keep the apple addressbook in sync with gmail, try abgmerge . . . here is a little write up. http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/12/03/abgmerge-sync-gmail-and-address-book-contacts/

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:00:58 +0000

#64 just select the card and then EDIT / COPY
or.. read the manual Daniel

here’s one that’s NOT IN THE MANUAL

who knows how to FIND all cards (contacts)
from a specific country?

who knows how to create a smartGROUP that lists all cards with an address in DE (DE is the abbreviation for Germany similar to USA for United States of …)

issue:
if some of the addresses have an incorrect country name (abbreviation instead of full country name)
there is no simple way to fix it today
unless… you know of one ;-)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:47:22 +0000

To Jason or other address book users:

Is there a way within Address Book or via another associated application to duplicate an Address Book Card without having to tediously cut and paste the various fields? I use Address Book for contact management and there are occassions where I would like to repeat the same card within different Groups. Thanks

By: scott hampton

scott hampton — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:09:06 +0000

PD – there is a duplicates check: Card — Duplicate Entries

I use address book a lot, keeps the Nokia synced easily.

BUT: WHY isn’t there a way to get the letters of the alphabet as tabs on the side. I have an engineer’s memory for names, and am constantly playing the “OK, that lawyer’s name… started with an A? Oh, hell, what was the company? Stern something?” It would be nice to be able to jump quickly instead of relying on search!

By: PD

PD — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:45:42 +0000

i want a duplicate checker in Address Book…

By: Gerard van Schip

Gerard van Schip — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:01:28 +0000

I agree, Address book is very cool, I use it daily but one thing bugs me… Not being able to sync to Thunderbird. Yes you read that right. I can’t stand Apple’s mail client, way to simple and a pain in the butt if you have several email accounts.