I am getting contacts in my address book saying stuff like "Joe Smith Smith" I don't utilize last names for personal preference reasons but it seems that the app is adding them anyway. Please help me find a way to stop them.
Mac Pro (Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Goes across all my devices.
There are a dozen threads on this stretching back for years. Mail is adding the name to Contacts. In my case, Mail added a first name to a Company name only contact, and a first name to a last name only contact.
I have not seen a fix, but one respondant in another thread suggested the workaround of adding SPACE as a last name in Contacts yourself.
Found this and it seems to be working for me on OS X 10.8.3...
Hopefully you fixed it before now. But if not, I had the same exact problem and I found a fix on MacRumors:
Steps:
1. Quit Mail
2. Open Finder and go to Library ==> Application Support ==> AddressBook
3. Remove the file MailRecents-v4.abcdmr
4. Open Mail, the file will be created again but now the sync issues should be resolved
This will stop that last name from re-adding itself even after you manually delete it.
Address Book is adding last name. I need it to stop. Help?
