Why can't Address Book allow me to add "spouse" to the print job?

There is also a menu item in TextWrangler that seems to fix it.

Paste the following into a new TextWrangler document and then select "Zap Gremlins..." in the "Text" menu. Save it as "ABRelatedNamesConfig.plist with Encoding set to Unicode (UTF-8) and put it in the Contacts/Contents/Resources folder using the instructions earlier in this post.

-Jay

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>ca</key>

<true/>

<key>uk</key>

<true/>

<key>us</key>

<true/>

<key>fr</key>

<true/>

</dict>

</plist>

Good work, TW is far more useful then TE! 🙂

Awewsome.

I found this solution a few years ago, but this time when I needed it again it wasn't working on Yosemite at first using the exact same file then. But upon recreation of it, it suddenly works for some reason.

Anyways, can we go to the next level of difficulty/challenge? That is...

"John and Jane Doe" works as we know. Also tried adding prefixes and was able to get "Mr. John and Jane Doe", but how about if we want to do Mr. and Mrs. John Doe? At best I've been able to get "Mr. John and Mrs. Jane Doe". As long as you add "Mr."/"Mrs." also to Spouse field, this works. But yeah...it still looks weird. I assume "Dr. John and Mrs. Jane Doe" would also work as well, but then there's now the problem of only being able to get "Dr. John and Dr. Jane Doe" when one would really want "Drs. John and Jane Doe" Oy.

Great, thanks a lot Jay!

Zapping Gremlins did it for me too. Works here on Mavericks with a French Canadian system (two contacts with identical address but different last names).

Another solution can be found at http://tidbits.com/article/14299 but it requires the purchase of the Labels & Addresses app. I include this link because apparently this app adds other functionality, and the article contains a lot of other good information about Address Book/Contacts.

This doesn't work with El Capitan. The Contents > Resources folder is locked so you can't put the ABRelatedNamesConfig.plist file in it. I imagine it's because of El Capitan's System Integrity Protection.

-- Jay

I can confirm that this works in El Capitan, but it is a much harder hack now. To add the ABRelatedNamesConfig.plist file to /Applications/Contacts.app, you need to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP).

1. Boot into Recovery Mode (hold ⌘-R during boot).

2. Start the Terminal app from the "Utilities" menu.

3. Disable SIP and reboot by entering the following command:

csrutil disable; reboot

4. Having disabled SIP, create and copy

ABRelatedNamesConfig.plist

5. Reenable SIP:

csrutil enable; reboot

The example file way back near the start of the thread has one error: the ISO country code for the United Kingdom is GB (Great Britain). Using UK does not get the related names effect.

-- T.M. Wong

Thanks T.M.,

Your solution for disabling SIP works great. I have one small clarification to make - the computer needs to be in Recovery Mode to enable SIP so you need to reboot holding ⌘-R again between steps 4 and 5 (above).

So the process is:

1. Boot into Recovery Mode (hold ⌘-R during boot).

2. Start the Terminal app from the "Utilities" menu.

3. Disable SIP and reboot by entering the following command: csrutil disable; reboot

4. Having disabled SIP, create and copy

ABRelatedNamesConfig.plist

5. Boot into Recovery Mode (hold ⌘-R during boot) again.

6. Reenable SIP: csrutil enable; reboot

This also works in macOS Sierra.

-Jay