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macosapplescriptcontactsaddressbook
user2856766
user2856766

Reputation: 3

Removing People from Contacts Group (in Mac Address Book)

This is my first post in stackoverflow. I've spent weeks trying to get an Applescript to remove people from established Groups (not Smart Groups) in Contacts (Mac Address Book). The script removes several people then issues an error. If I re-run the script after the error is issued, it will remove a few more people from the group and then issue the same error again. I can continue doing this until eventually everyone is removed from the group. I don't understand why the error is issued when re-running the script after the error is issued results in a few more people being removed before the error is issued again. - And again, I can continue re-running the script until eventually every person is removed from the group. This suggests the contact records are not corrupted.

I've tried moving the SAVE command around but that didn't help. The Group I'm removing contacts from is labeled "Family".

The error issued is... error "Contacts got an error: Can’t get group \"Family\"." number -1728 from group "Family"

tell application "Contacts"
    set group_list to name of every group

    repeat with anItem in group_list
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
        repeat 1 times
            if first item of anItem is not "$" then exit repeat

            set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "$"
            set gruppe to text item 2 of anItem
            if group gruppe exists then

                --remove every person from group
                repeat with person_to_remove in every person in group gruppe
                    set firstName to first name of every person in group gruppe
                    set group_count to count every person in group gruppe
                    remove person_to_remove from group gruppe
                    save
                end repeat

            end if

        end repeat

    end repeat
    save
    return "Done"
end tell

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1426

Answers (1)

mcgrailm
mcgrailm

Reputation: 17640

I think you're trying to hard. There is no need to change applescripts text item delimiters you can still find out if the group has a $ a the beginning of the group name

creating a 1 time loop is just weird not sure why you chose to do it that way.

you know the group already exists because you are looping through them so no need for that either

so here it is 

tell application "Contacts"
    set group_list to name of every group

    repeat with aGroup in group_list
        if first item of aGroup is "$" then
            set thePeople to every person in group aGroup

            repeat with aPerson in thePeople
                remove aPerson from group aGroup
            end repeat

        end if
    end repeat
    save
end tell

Upvotes: 2

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