alternative to Apple?s Address Book?
I?m looking for an alternative to Apple?s Address Book.
There would be nothing wrong with this application if it actually worked. Unfortunately that is not the case.
Address Book?s favourite trick is to delete all your contacts. I?ve had this happen to me on two seperate macs and judging by all the ?Address Book Gone!? Postings on Apple?s discussion boards I am far from alone.
I have about 4000 contacts in Address Book which may, or may not account for it?s grinding & soul destroying slowness.
Help! Can any kind person, save me from an imminent nervous breakdown by recommending an alternative to Address book.
Thanks
Robin
There would be nothing wrong with this application if it actually worked. Unfortunately that is not the case.
Address Book?s favourite trick is to delete all your contacts. I?ve had this happen to me on two seperate macs and judging by all the ?Address Book Gone!? Postings on Apple?s discussion boards I am far from alone.
I have about 4000 contacts in Address Book which may, or may not account for it?s grinding & soul destroying slowness.
Help! Can any kind person, save me from an imminent nervous breakdown by recommending an alternative to Address book.
Thanks
Robin
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(Anytime two or more users with low post counts start making claims that other people have never heard of, it looks suspicious... no offense intended.)
Alrighty, went and looked at the boards at Apple, and you're right, a couple dozen people have reported this problem over the past year. Looks like the common thread is force-quitting Address Book and then restarting it. I wonder what the files look like before it's restarted?
Which OS version are you using? Current on all updates? What is causing AB to hang on you? (ie, are you using Mail, do you use .Mac syncing, or iSync to an iDisk, or another device like a Palm?)
The platform could really use a version of ACT to supplement it.
Suspicious? I am.
http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/revi...o552/index.php
http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohoorganizer.html
http://www.marketcircle.com/products/index.html
Two 1-post members claiming something I've never heard before *and* with the same username format to boot.
Suspicious? I am.
I never would of thunk the fail-proof indicator of someone's Mac knowledge is number of posts on the Apple Insider message boards? Does this theory carry over to other knowledge areas, fields of study, or professions?
I never would of thunk the fail-proof indicator of someone's Mac knowledge is number of posts on the Apple Insider message boards? Does this theory carry over to other knowledge areas, fields of study, or professions?
Experience is not the point. They were merely noting that it looks like two people trying to troll, since this is the kind of behavior that is usually associated with mac-hating jackasses.
ie, trolling.
Its good to be skeptical, but this isn't totally bogus. And there are quite a few threads at Apple about this one. In any case, I would back up your address book now, whether you believe us or not.
Gave the Apple Discussion boards a quick lok and could not find evidence of "all the ?Address Book Gone!? Postings on Apple?s discussion boards ". A couple of newbies had posted things, very similar to what came up here.
Trolls, I believe.
Never a problem here, either.
Gave the Apple Discussion boards a quick lok and could not find evidence of "all the ?Address Book Gone!? Postings on Apple?s discussion boards ". A couple of newbies had posted things, very similar to what came up here.
Trolls, I believe.
Well I'm telling you it as happened to me twice, and I have been using Macs for twenty years. So, no they are not trolls.
Multiple low-post-count users with similar names backing each other up is still a red flag indicator for trolling, however.