Deleting Contacts?

[John D]

A couple of the people in my contacts list died recently so I want to delete them from the list. I can't work out how to do this as there doesn't seem to be a delete option in the menu. I've tried dragging the card to the trash but that doesn't work.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

highlight the contact in the list that you wish to remove then hit the Delete key. Confirm your actions then the contact will be deleted.

 

[John D]

highlight the contact in the list that you wish to remove then hit the Delete key. Confirm your actions then the contact will be deleted.

Thanks - I tried that. It just beeps at me. It doesn't give me an option to confirm the action.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

Try pressing  Delete

What version of Address Book do you have?

 

[John D]

Try pressing  Delete

What version of Address Book do you have?

7.1 OS 10.8.5 I've tried apple delete, alt delete, ctrl delete and shift delete. All of them just beep

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

If you select the contact in the list & go to Edit ~> Delete Card, does this work?

Go to Address Book ~> Preferences ~> Accounts … what is listed in the left pane?

 

[John D]

Nothing seemed to work so in the end I contacted the Apple support chatline and they talked me through it. They found a dodgy file deep in the application support menus which I deleted and then re-installed the contacts list and it seems to be working fine now. Thanks for trying to help anyway.