Deleting Anniversay and Birthday fields from Address Book contacts

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#1

Hi,
I’m a AS newbie and somewhat stumped.

I have a sync problem that sets dates for Birthday and Anniversary to weird years like 0002. These values cause Missing Sync to abend when syncing to my mobile phone.

Does anyone have a script that will simply scann all contacts and delete/zero specific fields ? I found a few that work on text fields using set as “” but this won’t work with date fields.

Any help gratefully appreciated!

Paul

#2

I would of expected something like this to work


tell application "Address Book"
	set thePeople to selection
	repeat with p in thePeople
		remove birth date from p
	end repeat
end tell

But birthdate isn’t an entity like email address it’s only a propery.

i couldn’t even do

set birth date of p to null

Someone else may be able to help

#3

Thanks!

I’ve managed to get the Birth Date deleting, the custom date “Anniversary” is still beating me.

Paul

#4

How did you get it to delete ? , please post.

the custom date can be access like this

tell application "Address Book"
	set thePeople to selection
	repeat with p in thePeople
		repeat with a in custom date of p
			
		end repeat
	end repeat
end tell
#5

Kim,
this kills the Birth Date

tell application “Address Book”
set mylist to selection

repeat with this_person in mylist
	delete birth date of this_person
	
end repeat

save addressbook

end tell