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Any macheads got any tips here; my address book has decided to add all sent email addresses to it, even if they're already in there. It's also a major headache for using iSync. It also takes ages when sending emails to add addresses to the book.

Basically, I want to edit my address book, but the searchability of the Address Book is for functional 'find me one person' type stuff, not rich searching or duplicate removing. Any tips on how I can prune the address book based on search criteria, rather than going through one-by-one through 12K entries?

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

12000 entries???

try looking on macosxhints. here's a first search that seems vaguely related http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031125202916191&query=address+book

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah...I think I dun made an error somewhere when importing from our work database...now need a way to edit the thing...

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

if this is still at work, can't you use LDAP to get the work addresses from a server? Mail.app for instance uses autocompletion with reference first to the address book, then recent recipients, then the user database supplied by an LDAP server (pretty much any mail server including MS Exchange)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah - we don't have a server with this stuff on it.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The address book data is stored as a flat XML file in your Library folder. You should be able to weed out shit using BBEdit.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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