How do i restore my Address Book ? When i press on the icon of Address Book on my desktop this shows up - " you can't use this version of the application Address Book this version of Mac OS x. You have Address Book version 6.
View 4 RepliesSo by accident I deleted all my address contacts on my mac by accedeint. (I was trying to stop my Mac user account picture from changing all the time). I knew I had deleted them but didnt think anything of it. I came to text someone today and half my contacts have gone from my iPhone and my iPad . But i dont know how to get them back on to my address book via time machine. Â
I have tried the simple going back to where the last backup was and hiting restore, but nothing happens. I can i get them off iCloud if timemachine wont work? or have i truly lost them?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
My Address Book won't restore contacts from my address book archive (.abbu).I sync my address book with iCloud.A couple weeks ago Address Book told me there were some inconsistancies in my contacts.It said that 12 of my contacts were outdated; the "updated" versions that it presented were actually versions that were older by several weeks or months.I exported my correct contacts as a .abbu file.I also back up with Time Machine so I should have a good copy there. I deleted a "bad" contact from my Address Book, and then tried to import the .abbu file, the contact I deleted appeared for a second and then disappeared.I then deleted my entire Address Book.I tried again to import the .abbu file.All the contacts appeared for a second and then disappeared. This happen when iCloud was added in perferences and syncing and when it wasn't. Deleting the file AddressBook folder in ~/ApplicationSupport/ also didn't help.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Tried to restore my address book (10.7.3), but I terribly failed. What files do I actually have to restore? Tried the all the metafiles (library) and both com.apple.addressbook.plist, but no success.
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PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Address-book doesnt work after update from Snow Lepard to Lion 10.7.3 PB says your address-book is 5.0.3. PB says You have adressbook 10.5.3, yes, but now?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I've searched the forums but still can't find the answer I'm looking for. This morning, I tried something on my iPhone called MyPhone+ which syncs my contacts on my phone with my Facebook account. This was all well and good, until I realized that it overwrote all the address information. which then went to mobileme, and then overwrote everything on my mac. SO, I looked in Time Machine, and my address book is perfect as of 6:00 am this morning. I selected that point in time, and clicked the RESTORE button, but nothing changes. Is it not possible to restore the data in address book to a point in time from the Time Machine backups?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just erased my HD and Im reinstalled all my programs. Im now trying to import my contacts to my address book. Before I erased my HD, I made a back up of my contacts by going to file>>>Export>>>Address Book Archive. and it saved it as a .abbu file. Now that its time to restore my contacts, It wont let me. My whole system was saved with time machine, so how do I restore my contacts threw time machine, without restoring everything else?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI can't restore my address book from external backup. I have all the files in Library/ApplicationSupport/Addressbook. I have tried to move them into the machine hard dirve and restart, but that is not working. I have also tired to move two adressbook plist files from preferences and that did not help. Don't know what to do next.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have lost all of my address book contacts. I have done a search for AddressBook.data and can't find any files. There are only two variables I can name that may be at fault. One, I deleted the Address Book widget from my Dashboard the other day. Two, I installed Snow Leopard on Friday. Any ideas of how I can find my lost data? I went into my Time Machine and I can't seem to find it, even in past copies.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am running OS 10.3.9 on a G3 iBook 600MHz. I've backed up my entire HD to a 80GB Fantom external drive. Since then, I've managed to lose my Address Book in its entirety. I'm 86 years old, senile, and to save my life I can't figure out how to transfer my saved Address Book from my external drive to my computer's HD. I've read the Fantom User's Guide until my eyeballs were ready to fall out, but I still can't make head or tail of what I'm reading. I have Carbon Copy Cloner installed on my machine. If there is one soul out there who can restore me to peace and harmony, I'd love to hear from him or her.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI deleted some important contacts from my Address Book, which is synched with iCloud, recently.I restored my Address Book from a Time Machine back up which had the important addresses still included.But every time I open Address Book on my MacBook, it tries to synch with iCould, which is missing the contacts and therefore immediately deletes them.I have turned iClound sync off in my System Preferences, but because the Address Book Time Machine backup I am trying to restore from has iCloud 'enabled' in the Address Book preferences, every time I open it, it resets my System Preferences back to syncing Address Book with iCloud and it deletes the contacts I am trying to restore upon the application start up.How do I actually restore Address Book from a Time Machine back up and keep iCloud from overwriting that?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have lost all my address book and iCal content on my MacBook Pro. How do I restore from my iPhone? I tried synchronising my iPhone to the MacPro but then lost all the content on the iPhone. I managed to get it back using the restore. This means the only content I have for Address Book and iCal sits on my iPhone!
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Accidentally deleted address book and I don't have an install dvd/cd. I looked at others' answers and all I got was that you have to have the install disc. Are there any ways for me to restore my address book running mac os x 10.6.8 btw.
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
how to specify which of several email addresses should be used for a member of a group. It starts by selecting the menu item "Edit > Edit Distribution List." From there it explains how to select the desired address for a specific person. All well and good...Â
BUT...Â
Try as I might, doing various combinations of name or group selections in the address book window, I cannot seem to get the "Edit Distributuion List" item to be un-greyed. Effectively, the program is not allowing me to do the edit function I need to do on this one group member.Â
Am I missing the secret handshake in this process? Why should it be this hard to do this simple function?Â
Which raises the larger question of "What did Apple do to the Address Book application in general?" This issue is only the tip of my iceberg. The whole app seems to be harder to use than before.Â
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iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I must be missing something very obvious, but I can't seem to set Address Book to add all new contact info as "Work" entries. I have to edit every new entry and change all the fields from "other" to "work." This appears to happen when I "grab" phone or email info from an email message.
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MBP 2.4 Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.7.1), iPhone 3Gs, iPad 1 and 2
Address book on my iCloud has letter tabs down the side for quick searching names but the address book on my dock does not. How can I get them?
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Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
How do I transfer my existing Address book to an iCloud address book without typing them all out again?
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MacBook2.1, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I am running Address Book 5.0 on Snow Leopard on one machine, and want to share my contacts on another machine running OSX10.4.11, Address Book v4.0.....can this be done?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAddress Book will no longer open--simply bounces twice then nothing....
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Address Book in Lion was working for me initially, but at some point within 10.7.2 and into 10.7.3 it began to malfunction. It shows all the addresses. If I search, it ignores this completely. If I single click on an entry, it does not show the details of that entry, but still displays the first entry details. If I double click the entry, a new windows pops up with the actual details for that entry. I have tried deleting the db and various pref files to no avail. Sync with iCloud is enabled.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
My Address Book won't open on my IMAC- It worked this morning but I must have hit something to hide. I tried right click on icon and have tried - show all windows, Options, Hide and Quit. When I click "show all windows" the last address I was viewing pops-up, but once I click on the window, it immediatly disappears.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Version 6 of address book is difficult to work with and missing a few important features, especially a logical presentation in columns of groups, names and details. How can I get ver 5 back?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), I am keeping OSX 10.6.8 on my iMac
Using Lion, 10.7.3 Address Book won't reopen after it has been opened and placed on hold with C H. What should I do to fix this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedOne day I tried to open it and it immediately crashed giving me this error:Â Â
Process:Â Â Â Â Address Book [6691]Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address BookIdentifier:Â com.apple.AddressBookVersion:Â Â Â Â 6.1 (1083)Build Info:Â AddressBook-1083000000000000~1Code Type:Â Â X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:Â launchd [110]Â Date/Time:Â Â 2012-04-03 01:44:11.491 -0700OS Version:Â Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74)
Report Version:Â 9Â Interval Since Last Report:Â Â Â Â Â 99440 secCrashes Since Last Report:Â Â Â Â Â Â 6
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Just purchased new imac with os 10.7.3Â
Used the Migration application to transfare from my old imac os 10.5.8 which is now networked with the new imacÂ
When I try to open the address book ( v 4.1.2 ) on the old mac vis the new imac I get message saying version not compatable (or similar)Â
How can IÂ safely transfare contents of address book onto new imac -?Â
I have received an email with 40 or so recipients. How can I add all those to a group in address book?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have many printed sheets of contacts that I need to import to address book. Other than manually typing or through the magic of ocr (url...) then copying and pasting to address book, is there an easy way to input these contacts?I've found world card mobile (url...) on the iphone where I can take photo's of the contacts and the apps ocr will correctly put about 80% of the proper information in but the phone runs out of batteries and it's about the same time as copying and pasting.
I'm wondering is there a computer version of world card that would at least put the information in the right spot and I can make just minor adjustments. Or is there a way that I can make the pdf in to an excel or numbers format and the use one of those excel to vcard apps to do it all in one shot? it's a lot of contacts, over 10k.
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I can't open my address book. Whe I click on it and the menu bar on the top changes to address book but nothing shows on my screen. If I right click and choose "show all windows" then it appears but disappears when I try to click on it to use it. I have tried shutting down and restarting my computer.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
The last few days Address Book has become Unusable, as it quits everytime I open it.Â
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
There is no edit button appearing in my Address Book. I cannot edit current addresses.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
