Another manifestation of this, is when a search is performed with All Address Books selected, and you drag a contact to another address book, the list of contacts goes blank
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Another manifestation of this, is when a search is performed with All Address Books selected, and you drag a contact to another address book, the list of contacts goes blank - at least on 81 beta