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Errant Autofill Mail Addresses

I wrote an email address wrong and emailed it. Now, whenever I try to write that person, the autofill always fills in that wrong address. I corrected it in the address book, etc., but it is stuck in the autofill memory. How can I access that autofill to delete erroneous things like this?

iMac Dual Core Intel (3 of them, networked), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 13, 2010 5:38 PM

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Posted on Dec 13, 2010 6:14 PM

In Mail, go to Window -> Previous recipients and delete the incorrect address.
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Jan 16, 2012 6:21 PM in response to HistoryBob

What exact version of OSX are we dealing with?


As far as I know it should be present ib nost of them from 10.3 to 10.7!???


Did you include search for Invisibles?


Here's everything in that folder on 10.7.x...


.database.lockN

.skIndex.ABPerson.lockN

ABPerson.index

ABPerson.skIndex

ABPerson.skIndexInverted

AddressBook-v22.abcddb

AddressBook.data

AddressBook.data.beforesave

AddressBook.data.previous

Configuration.plist

Images

LastImport.plist

MailRecents-v4.abcdmr

Metadata

Migration 20110916194709-12559.abbu.tbz

Sources


Here's everything in that folder in 10.5.8...


Metadata

.database.lockN

AddressBook-v22.abcddb

MailRecents-v4.abcdmr

.DS_Store

Images

LastImport.plist

AddressBook.data

.skIndex.ABPerson.lockN

ABPerson.skIndexInverted

AddressBook.data.previous

AddressBook.data.beforesave

ABPerson.skIndex

ABPerson.index

Jan 17, 2012 8:42 AM in response to BDAqua

All I have in the AddressBook folder are:



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AddressBook-v22.abcddb

Configuration.plist

Images

LastImport.plist

MailRecents-v4.abcdmr

Metadata

Migration 20110916194709-12559.abbu.tbz

Sources

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I'm beginning to believe I have a corrupt MAIL application with several files missing. How do I restore the AddressBook folder to its original without losing all my presnt address entries?


Do I just do a restore from Time Machine?

Errant Autofill Mail Addresses

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