Trouble with Address Book - Adding Birthdays

[GarrettB]

Here's the problem. I added the birthday field to the edit window, and I can adjust the month and day of the birthday, but the year remains at "07" and when I close out of the edit window, the birthday's correct month and day are displayed, but the year reverts to 2000.

How do I just the contact's birthday year?

 

[robjrussell]

you need to put in their birthday in the appropriate format.
look at your preferences for exactly how it should be inputed..

 

[GarrettB]

I poked around in the Preferences and all the drop down menus. No luck. The same problem happens with the "Date" field as well.

 

[Cinematographer]

Do you write "07" or "2007"?

 

[GarrettB]

That's the problem. It just says "07" but I can't highlight it by mouse or tab to it to change the year.

 

[Cinematographer]

Strange. 😕 I just checked: I can do that.

In you situation, I'd quit Address Book and erase this file:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist

and restart the programm. If it does not help, reinstall the programm.