Address Book Errors
March 19, 2009 on 1:38 pm | In 9.0 version, Other services | 12 Comments
Some of you have left comments here on the blog about errors you’re encountering when trying to update a friend’s contact information in Yahoo! Messenger. For example, when trying to update someone’s info, you might see this error when you try to save your changes:
Error: The last address book operation did not succeed due to a server error (-40402)
As you may or may not know, Yahoo! Messenger is integrated with the Yahoo! Address Book (part of Yahoo! Mail). As a result, when they are doing any kind or maintenance, upgrades or server work, it can result in some Yahoo! Messenger users encountering errors when they try to make changes to their address book content.
Currently, the Yahoo! Address Book team is upgrading some of their servers over the next few weeks. As a result, you may occasionally run into these types of errors.
As a workaround, you can try the edit again later in Yahoo! Messenger or to make your changes right away, head over to http://address.mail.yahoo.com and make your changes directly on the Address Book site.
Again, these types of errors are usually temporary and can be worked around by making changes directly on the Address Book site. Thanks for your patience,
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

You’re correct Ms.Bacon the work around works like a charm I figured it out myself a few days ago. Thanks for informing us so we all know.
Comment by SGFC — March 19, 2009 #
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i have alot of problems with yahoo after you make the 9.x versions i have alot of friends in my messenger they are about 350 and i have alot of problems when some one new contact me i cant add him and cant chat with him he see me writing but nothing arrives to him i reported you alot but you never make my problem abig matter
is it better to find another service like msn?
i love yahoo but you dont answer me.
thanks
Comment by Nizar — March 22, 2009 #
good article. explains a lot. thanks for posting this. Carl Parisien Natick MA
Comment by Carl Parisien Natick MA — March 23, 2009 #
Please repair as soon as the error 40402, if you want someone to use your Yahoo Messenger. Becoming more common are problems with Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Mail … Make changes all the time (silly, eg. the emoicons large from Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.1389) on your servers. You actually beating the game for users of Yahoo Messenger or Yahoo Mail. What kind of company you are? One bankrupt? What a shame …
And another thing. Please do an e-mail for all complaints. I personally, I am tired of “Feedbacks” or “Contact Care”, which does not solve anything.
Eg. in my email account occurs frequently the error #14.
Comment by Dorian — March 24, 2009 #
Can’t add new contact. Show internet error5.1 or something like that. How to fix?
Thanks.
Comment by Harry — March 30, 2009 #
Hi,
This is Kevin. can somebody fix this problem with
error 40402 and error5.1 and error#14. can somebody fix these 3 problems ok please. send
me results soon ok. fix all the errors ok please.
from Kevin.
Comment by kevindesroches — March 31, 2009 #
Quelqun devrais changer l’erreur. Ont a besoin d’un fix immediatement. We need a fix asap. Robert Carl Parisien Natick MA – merci beaucoup and thank you for looking into this and the post. Thanks
Comment by Robert Carl Parisien Natick MA — April 1, 2009 #
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Thank you for this post. About HOW Long is this maintenance expected to last? Thanks.
Comment by Valerie — April 6, 2009 #
This fails to resolve the ongoing issue when trying to adda contact in Yahoo Messenger – a problem for which numerous help submissions have been made and there is NO RESPONSE.
“There was an error in the server while trying to add a contact. Please try again”
This is especially common when trying to add a non-US Yahoo email address, such as an “@yahoo.cn” address.
How about dealing with that detailed error message?????
Comment by mark — May 24, 2009 #
Can someone please repair error code; -50001
Comment by wayne — August 5, 2009 #