macOS Address book Applescript Delete

[ViViDboarder]

So I'm having some weird issues with deleting items from my address book using Applescripts...

I run a delete script and nothing seems to happen, so I did a little test. First I ran:

tell application "Address Book"
	count (emails of people whose label is "mobile")
end tell

And it tells me '221'

Then I run:

tell application "Address Book"
	delete (emails of people whose label is "mobile")
end tell

And it gives no errors.

Finally I run the first script over again and it gives me 0.

I'd think that all would be well, but I open address book and it seems like the items are still there. In fact, I know they are still there. I can close Address Book and then open it again and run the count script and it gives me 221 again!

Any idea how to get these changes to stick?

 

[mysterytramp]

You say no errors, but are you expecting AS to burp if there's a mistake?

You might want to wrap your delete line in a try block just to be sure.

tell application "Address Book"
	try
		delete (emails of people whose label is "mobile")
	on error errMsg number errNum
		display dialog "Error No. " errNum & return & errMsg
	end try
end tell

mt

 

[ViViDboarder]

You say no errors, but are you expecting AS to burp if there's a mistake?

You might want to wrap your delete line in a try block just to be sure.

tell application "Address Book"
	try
		delete (emails of people whose label is "mobile")
	on error errMsg number errNum
		display dialog "Error No. " errNum & return & errMsg
	end try
end tell

mt

Yea, nothing comes up. I'm almost certain it thinks it's doing something. I played around and had it show all labels for the selected person. It showed:
home
mobile
mobile

Then I ran my delete and ran the show script again and it shows:
home

And that's it. But when I look at the entry all the items are there and if I restart Address Book they are still there and the Applescript will show that again.

 

[mysterytramp]

Try this:

tell application "Address Book"
	try
		delete (emails of people whose label is "mobile")
	on error errMsg number errNum
		display dialog "Error No. " errNum & return & errMsg
	end try
	[B]save[/B]
end tell

mt

 

[ViViDboarder]

It says missing value. I'll try a slightly different script to save thePerson later.

Worked.

I used the script attached and added the line for the save this_person.

Thanks! I had looked all over and all the scripts I found were doing exactly what I had before. I wonder if 10.6 behaves differently and these scripts are for 10.5. Oh well.

I edited these lines and added the save:

repeat with email_id in emails_to_remove
	delete (emails of this_person whose id is email_id)
	set emails_removed to emails_removed + 1
end repeat
save this_person