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After updating to Lion OS 10.7, the Edit Distribution List menu selection is grayed out. How do we edit Distribution List (Groups) with contacts with multiple email addresses?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Address Book
There's a very easy and quite elegant way described here. I went for the second soulution / workaround for this iClud bug ("Create local distribution groups"), and now groups make sense again ... Hope it helps you, too.
All the best
Thx Juergen, it works and now editing distribution groups works!
It works along as you don't mind having duplicated contacts.
No, contacts are not duplicated as long as you do it as described in the MacFixit hint. "... but if you add new ones they will be stored locally on your system and not synced with iCloud. Therefore, do this temporarily and create a new group (it should appear under the On My Mac section), and then go back to the preferences and revert the default account to the iCloud setting ...". Maybe it's a bit heavyhanded, but not that much ...
"On my Mac" has only one group ("Workaround ....") without any contacts. So, it just works that way. No duplicats.
I found that once I switche the Adress Book Preference->General->Default Account from iCloud to 'On My Mac', the "Edit Distribution List' option came back .... and,
even when I changed the Preference back to "iCloud', I was still able to Edit Distribution List with iCloud AND local groups. Not sure if this will stick after sync, but it made me happy for a few brief moments....
Didn't work for me.😮
...But the solution mentioned by Juergen did. 🙂
The key is that the Contact List is now being kept in the Cloud & you cannot edit the Distribution List in your Mac's Address Book.
Easy Fix:
Quit your Address Book
Go to Menu --> Sys Preferences --> iCloud
Uncheck the CONTACTS icon
Close Sys Pref
Open Address Book - Edit your Distribution Lists (No longer Greyed out)
Quit Address Book
Go to Menu --> Sys Preferences --> iCloud
Check the CONTACTS icon
You should be good to go!
Hope this helps!
...John
the hint by scidoc666 worked for me, but only if I made an (empty) group locally under "On My Mac".
Even after switching the default account back to iCloud the command is not greyed out any more.
Juergen's solution works. Click on his link to that CNet article, and you'll be good to go. Thank you, Juergen!
Edit Distribution List in Address Book is gray
