Address book - which groups is a contact in?
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From: Martin S Taylor on 28 Mar 2010 15:10 Valentina uses Groups a lot in Address Book, and now she needs to know if there's an easy way to find which group any particular contact is in. Any offers? Martin S Taylor pp Valentina
From: Woody on 28 Mar 2010 16:52 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > Valentina uses Groups a lot in Address Book, and now she needs to know if > there's an easy way to find which group any particular contact is in. Any > offers? Apart from some way accessing the database from terminal, but that isn't very user friendly! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Bruce Horrocks on 28 Mar 2010 18:34 On 28/03/2010 20:10, Martin S Taylor wrote: > Valentina uses Groups a lot in Address Book, and now she needs to know if > there's an easy way to find which group any particular contact is in. Any > offers? Open Address Book and select All Contacts Select File->Export->Export Group vCard Save as vCards.vcf on the desktop or somewhere convenient. Open vCards.vcf using TextWrangler (you may need to set it to allow you to open all file types) Use Find to search by contact name, the following CATEGORIES line lists the groups that the contact is in. -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: Andrew Simpkins on 29 Mar 2010 19:23 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > Valentina uses Groups a lot in Address Book, and now she needs to know if > there's an easy way to find which group any particular contact is in. Any > offers? > Select the contact then hit the option key. Is that what you're looking for? -- Andrew.
From: Sara on 30 Mar 2010 04:37
In article <1jg550i.1r2qa3s1vtl3hwN%axjsweb(a)gmail.com>, axjsweb(a)gmail.com (Andrew Simpkins) wrote: > Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > > > Valentina uses Groups a lot in Address Book, and now she needs to know if > > there's an easy way to find which group any particular contact is in. Any > > offers? > > > > Select the contact then hit the option key. > Is that what you're looking for? ooo - I didn't know it could do that! -- Sara Hurrah - the weather has cheered up |