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The user can create custom dates in contacts in Addressbook using applescript, but they cannot delete them tell application "Address Book" -- 1 make a custom date to play with make new custom date at end of custom dates of person 1 with properties {label:"blind date", value:current date} save addressbook --2 check that it is there tell person 1 to return properties of every custom date end tell tell application "Address Book" --3 THE BUG try and delete it delete (every custom date whose label is "anniversary") of person 1 --fails delete custom date 1 of person 1 --also fails end tell

On 28 Sep 2007, at 8:16 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Rob Lewis wrote:

Many entries in my Address Book file have one or more custom date fields labeled "NC Mod Date". I want to go through the whole file and delete all these fields. The following doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?

tell application "Address Book"

set no_persons to (count every person)

repeat with p_no from 1 to no_persons

try

tell person p_no
delete (every custom date whose label is "NC Mod Date")
end tell

end try

end repeat

end tell

I'm not sure that you're doing anything wrong -- that's exactly the syntax that ought to work, and it does work with other contact info types, such as phones, emails, and addresses. This looks like a bug in Address Book to me.

--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering