change a phone label in Contacts

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I can change the phone label of a person in the Contacts app with a line like this:


set label of phone of person 1 to "iPhone"

I can see see in the Result and Variables Tab in Script Debugger that it has been successful changed. Then if I quit the Contacts app, and open it again, the label will revert back to the old label name.

Does anybody else have the same problem?

If I change the phone label directly in the Contacts app, the change persists. If I change it with AppleScript, it does not persist after quitting the Contacts app.

I have a few thousand contacts whose phone labels were changed to a foreign language a few years ago through some app I downloaded on the iPhone, so I would like to change them back to the default labels like “mobile”, or “iPhone”.

#2

The changes aren’t saved until/unless you issue the save command. Check its dictionary entry.

#3

Thank you. That worked.