Address Book does not sync to computer

When I try to sync my iPhone with my computer, Contacts entries are not being transferred to my Mac's Address Book. They are, however, going from Address book to the iPhone I don't understand why. Here is my set up:
Computer: OS X 10.6.8
iTunes: 10.6.1
Settings in iTunes: Synch all contacts is on. Everything else contact related is off. Back up to computer is on. Back up to iCloud is off.
Thanks!

I understand what's going on, but this may be happening because there is something corrupt with one or more contacts on your phone. Replacing them may allow two-way syncing to work again. If your phone contacts are the ones that are correct you could replace your mac Address Book contacts with these by using the free app My Contacts Backup on your phone. This will back up your contacts as an attachment to an email. You send this email to yourself, open it on your mac and double-click the attachment to import them to your mac Address Book. You would first need to remove your contacts from your mac Address Book. To do this, open Address Book on you mac and back them up as a precation (File>Export>Address Book Archive), then select all your contacts and delete them. Once Address Book is empty you can use the email attachment to import your iPhone contacts.
Now you can try replacing your iPhone contacts with your mac Address Book contacts to see if this resolves your syncing problem.

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