macOS Can Country Code Be Removed From Contacts App on Macbook?

[zumandrew]

Hello,

First time poster, longtime reader.

Is there a way to remove the country field from the Contacts app? Instead of deleting each United States of America one contact at a time (2k+) perhaps an Apple script can resolve this issue? Or is there another automated way?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Cheers,

Andrew

 

[kryten2]

Is there a way to remove the country field from the Contacts app?

I'm guessing you mean Address Book. Try this :

-- USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU APPLY IT TO YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!!!
tell application "Address Book"
	set my_selections to selection
	repeat with my_selection in my_selections
		repeat with i from 1 to count of every address of my_selection
			if country of address i of my_selection = "United States of America" then
				set country of address i of my_selection to ""
			end if
		end repeat
	end repeat
	save
end tell

Note : Before you run this make a BACKUP of your address book. Select all persons you want to remove the country field from and run the script.