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Q: After Lion upgrade, my addressbook does not work++

After Lion upgrade, my addressbook does not work . It did the same day, but now it only shows one contactcard, even if I highlight any other contact. What shall I do? From Mail I can see all the contacts mailaddresses, but that is all. I sync my iPhone and the contacts there is ok.

Mail also freezes and shut down many times a day while i am writing a mail, it did not do it before upgrade.

I have an iMac with 4G memory.

26" iMac 3,66, Mac OS X (10.6.4), iPhone 3Gs

Posted on Jul 29, 2011 3:13 AM

by Barney-15E,Solvedanswer
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A:

Give this a shot.

If you are syncing your contacts with something, disable that for now.

Archive your Address book by going to File menu, Export, Address book Archive.

Close Address Book.

Go to the Finder and while holding down the Option key, select Library from the Go menu.

Navigate into Application Support/AddressBook.

Delete addressbook.abcddb.

Open Address Book and see how it works

Turn Syncing back on if applicable.

 

The file you deleted is a database that indexes the raw data to make display, search, etc faster. However, it does seem to get corrupted with updates.

Posted on Jul 29, 2011 3:20 PM

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  • by buenhec,

    buenhec buenhec Mar 5, 2012 8:49 AM in response to tempelboy
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    Mar 5, 2012 8:49 AM in response to tempelboy

    Thanks, it worked. All I did was uncheck and recheck contants. Hope the fix lasts.

  • by ChristopherThornton,

    ChristopherThornton ChristopherThornton Apr 24, 2012 12:02 PM in response to tempelboy
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    Apr 24, 2012 12:02 PM in response to tempelboy

    Thanks much on the helpful answer!

  • by DrFrame,

    DrFrame DrFrame Apr 29, 2012 6:12 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Apr 29, 2012 6:12 AM in response to Barney-15E

    Thanks a lot, finally sorted

  • by maxxi11,

    maxxi11 maxxi11 May 6, 2012 11:04 AM in response to tempelboy
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    May 6, 2012 11:04 AM in response to tempelboy

    Great Barney! thank you a lot!

  • by I have no alias,

    I have no alias I have no alias May 12, 2012 12:00 AM in response to tempelboy
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    May 12, 2012 12:00 AM in response to tempelboy

    I tried Barney's solution which didn't help me. But in navigating to LibrariesApplication support/Address Book

     

    I did find a zipped file called migration*******.tbz

    I unzipped that file which gavve me a migration*******.abbu   file

    double clicking on that opened addressbook and added all my pre Lion contacts back into address book without the junk that got created during my  many attempts to syn with i@%$@^@CLOUD.

    I am happier.

  • by GFIVE,

    GFIVE GFIVE May 19, 2012 2:23 PM in response to tempelboy
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    May 19, 2012 2:23 PM in response to tempelboy

    The fix from Barney works like a charm. Just a corrupted  file.

    Thanks Barney!

  • by GFIVE,

    GFIVE GFIVE May 19, 2012 2:23 PM in response to Barney-15E
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    May 19, 2012 2:23 PM in response to Barney-15E

    Your fix works like a charm. Thanks for posting.

  • by Squidfrites,

    Squidfrites Squidfrites Jul 13, 2012 2:24 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Jul 13, 2012 2:24 AM in response to Barney-15E

    Great fix for me (who just downloaded Lion from the App store to upgrade a Snow Leopard 5-year-old Macbook Pro.  Thank-you.

     

    Syncing is the most hairy part of the whole experience huh?  I'm really not sure whether we (who have decided to shell out for the Apple promise of an easier computing life) have started to expect too much or if Apple need to boot their own behind.

     

    Or somewhere between the two?

     

    The actual filename to be deleted in my case was:

    Application Support > AddressBook > AddressBook-v22.abcddb.

    I also spent a few seconds wondering which was the Option key, as mine is just called "alt ⌥"

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Jul 13, 2012 4:56 AM in response to Squidfrites
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    Jul 13, 2012 4:56 AM in response to Squidfrites

    From the beginning (1984), it has been the Option key. When Apple started selling outside the US, they started adding alt to the key. At some point, they dropped Opt altogether from the international keyboards.

     

    The actual filename to be deleted in my case was:

    Application Support > AddressBook > AddressBook-v22.abcddb.

     

    Oops. Wish I could edit that.

  • by SimoninOslo,

    SimoninOslo SimoninOslo Jul 23, 2012 3:26 AM in response to tempelboy
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    Jul 23, 2012 3:26 AM in response to tempelboy

    This worked for me (and I think is what Barney means by desyncing address book)

     

    1. Go to system preferences and select icloud

    2. Deselect contacts from icloud sync (you can choose to keep or not keep contacts locally, I dont think it makes any difference)

    3. Wait a minute or so

    4. Now, select sync of contacts again

     

    It should now work perfectly.

     

    (Just added this to clarify a bit about Barneys first post)

     

    SimonC

  • by Rich C Marsh,

    Rich C Marsh Rich C Marsh Jul 26, 2012 10:32 AM in response to tempelboy
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    Jul 26, 2012 10:32 AM in response to tempelboy

    Hi. Was looking promising but it didn't work and a new file appeared in the Library with a similar name. Any ideas? Thanks.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Jul 26, 2012 11:05 AM in response to Rich C Marsh
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    Jul 26, 2012 11:05 AM in response to Rich C Marsh

    Rich C Marsh wrote:

     

    Hi. Was looking promising but it didn't work and a new file appeared in the Library with a similar name. Any ideas? Thanks.

    It is supposed to recreate itself. That is the index file that is used to display the information in the Address Book. It occasionally gets corrupted and won't display or update correctly. Deleting it causes Address Book to rebuild the index from the vCards stored in the metadata folder.

     

    If you've got the data backed up, you can delete everything in the addressBook folder and start over. Import your contacts back into an empty Address Book and see if it works ok.

  • by Confused of Sussex,

    Confused of Sussex Confused of Sussex Jul 30, 2012 10:36 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Jul 30, 2012 10:36 AM in response to Barney-15E

    Thanks for this. I tried it too but though I delete the whole file, when I go to empty trash it says that the file addressbook-v22.abcddb is in use and won't delete, even though there are no applications running. When I restart the computer the file is back in place in library. How can I get rid of it?

    I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.

  • by Dedo,

    Dedo Dedo Jul 30, 2012 4:07 PM in response to Confused of Sussex
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    Jul 30, 2012 4:07 PM in response to Confused of Sussex

    Try this handy little app when the Trash won't empty or if you have big files that will take a long time to empty.

     

    http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8214/trash-it!

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Jul 30, 2012 8:48 PM in response to Confused of Sussex
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    Jul 30, 2012 8:48 PM in response to Confused of Sussex

    You don't need to get rid of it. It is required to index the vCard data. Deleting it causes AddressBook to recreate the index, hopefully making it work correctly in the process.

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