Address book on my mac and Cloud question

Noticed the contacts were different on my mac and iCloud and not sure why. In iTunes have backing up to iCloud but not sure that is correct or matters. Contacts on the iPhone are seldom correct and want to get this fixed. recently deleted quite a few from the address book and tried to restore on Time Machine but not allowed. Does anyone know the file for Adress book that I can restore?
additionally, how should the address book be set so the same items are on the IMac , iPhone4 and iPad2?
Obviously I don't understand and would appreciate some assistance - driving me crazy.
Thanks!

This user tip might help you understand how accounts work with Address Book.
First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.

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Confusing yet?
So now I have all of my contacts on the new phone (whew!) but I still can't get them into my address book on the mac. What in the world am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help!!
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Connect your iPhone 4 to your Mac. iTunes should open. Look on the left, you should see "Kim's iPhone" or something similar. Click on it. Then look at the top of the iTunes window, click on "Info". You can tick the box to sync your contacts from here. There are also options to sync with the cloud, with MobileMe, Google, Yahoo, etc, which allow automatic wireless syncing. Be careful here though, it's very easy to accidentally duplicate your contacts!

How can I synch my address books on two macs and also my Google contacts?

I have signed up for iCloud on my two macs, and I understand that their address books will be kept in sync. But will the sync with Google that I have set up in Addressbook.app continue to work?

Selected under the Info tab for your iPad sync preferences with iTunes.
With such a question, you should spend some time with the user guide.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/ipad_user_guide.pdf

What determines the order in which phone numbers are displayed in address book/contacts on Mac and iPad/iPhone?

I may have "Work, Home, Skype, Work Fax" (for example) order in Adress Book on my Mac, but there is no gurantee, apparently, that this order will be preserved across entries on my iPad and iPhone. In some entries I might get "Home, Work, Skype, Work Fax" while others might have "Work, Skype, Home, Work Fax". Even with just Work and Home, the ordering is not consistent. Can I force a specific order?

Having the same problem. Have iPad and iPhone, both running ios5, both sync to the cloud, and data entered on one soon shows up like magic on the other. But Lion MacBook Pro refuses to join in the dance. Contacts and calendar entries on the mbp don't show up in either the ipad or iphone. I have the same account login info setup on all three devices, and as much as I can tell, preferences set up correctly. Oddly enough, when I am in the mbp cloud preference pane, and click on the ? for help, it tells me it can't give me help because it is not connected to the internet. Well, it clearly IS connected to the internet. Don't know if that is related to the non-syncing or not, but it is a little strange. A little bit of operating manual for cloud would be helpful.

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Hi guys -- When I was using mobileme, any change I made on the Address Book of my iPhone would sync automatically to mobileme and to the Address Book of my desktop iMac, it was hassle-free.
Now that iCloud has replaced mobileme, how can I do the same?
I've already updated my iPhone 3GS to the latest iOS 5 and my iMac is running 10.6.8.
Do I HAVE to upgrade to Lion?? I don't want to.
Best!

You do have to upgrade to Lion to enable you mac to sync with iCloud, as it is built into OS X in System Preferences (see http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/mac.html). Once you do this you can enable syncing with Address Book, iCal, etc.

HT4918 contacts are missing from my address book on my mac but are on my ipad, both have icloud

contacts are missing from my address book on my mac. they remain on my ipad. I have synced my ipad. i have removed contacts from address book on my mac and then re added them. still missing. how do i fix this

Start by answering the questions.
Picking up old contacts where - are you referring to the email address autofill feature when addressing an email?
Did you transfer the backup for your old iPhone to your new iPhone?
Are you accessing an email account on your iPhone that provides over the air syncing for contacts such as a Yahoo account, Gmail account, or a MobileMe/iCloud account?
I am seeing contacts that I know are at least a year old, and current contacts in my Macs address book are not being sync'd up.
Does this mean syncing contacts with the Address Book on your Mac is not selected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes? If so, has this ever been selected with your new iPhone? Deslecting this after it was selected does not remove contacts from your iPhone.

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Exchange has been set up for a while to Sync with address book. I noticed that a friends birthday was not appearing in iCal when it should.
Checking the settings in iCal, I noticed that it's taking the birthday's from my address book "On My Mac" and not the exchange account that I use as default.
There are settings to sync with MobileMe, Google and Yahoo!, but not Exchange. Exchange seems to be just all on it's own with nobody to play with.
Short of manually copying all my contacts from "Exchange" to "On My Mac" every time I was to sync, is there a way to automatically sync the two accounts?
I've done a search of the support, but cant find anything relating to this question. If you know of a thread, please paste it for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've done some trawling and it seems likely that Address Book 4 synced perfectly. Does anyone know why it wont with Address Book 5?

Within my address book contacts, phone numbers and-or addresses are duplicated at random.

I use several Macbook and Iphones but am very carefull to use only one addressbook on the macs as the source for all changes, I am using I cloud now but suddenly, totally at random, contacrs have disappeared, lost all info except the phone number, or WITHIN the contact file (the "card) the address or phonenumbers are duplicated.
I have a last copy of the most recent address book om my mac and would like to "clean -up" this mess.
Any advice?? And what is the correct procedure to sync contacts on all devices?
Marc

Funny that somebody "bumped" this because we've run into the same problem with my wife's iphone 3GS, mainly in using Bump and also Mover. I send her a contact this way from my iPhone and it arrives safe and sound. But it never gets into her contacts database. However--it does show up in Spotlight searches. This is in fact the only way to find it. Since I sent it several times it shows up several times, but only once with the Contacts icon next to it.
Anybody have any ideas? We are also using MobileMe, for whatever that is worth.

HT1351 My fifth generation nano will no longer sync my address book from my Mac. It gives me an error message that "You have no contacts" and asks me if I want to create some. My address book is full of contacts. Sync works for everything else.

My 5th generation nano will no longer Sync my address book from my Mac. It gives me a message that I have no "Contacts", and asks if I want to create some. My address book is full of contacts, but for some reason it thinks it is empty. All the other sync operations work fine including iCal. My Mac is running OS X 10.7.4.

It sounds like all of your contacts on your Mac running Lion are actually stored up in iCloud.
Several users running Mac OS X Lion and now ML (and iCloud) have no longer been able to "sync" contacts over to their older iPods models.
A work around is to export all of your contacts out of Address Book as vCards and them copy these vCards into your iPod's Contacts folder. You'll need to have the Enable Disk Use option ticked from under the iPod's Summary tab in order to browse out to the iPod's Contacts folder via the Finder.
Using your iPod as a storage drive
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Once Mac address book synched from iphone and contacts deleted they won't resynch back

I have a problem and have spent hours researching but to no avail
1. I got a new iphone 4S and put in my mail info from yahoo, gmail and low and behold I had a contact list now in my phone. I thought, "I just love Apple!"
2. I spent all afternoon on my iphone updating my contact list with contact photos, birthdays and all the stuff I never put in on my email program or my MacPro Leopard mac addressbook.
3. With trepidation, I synched via usb with itunes my contacts and suddenly I had 3 (or more versions of my contacts on every site or device). To see what was going on (as I wasn't sure if my mac would erase iphone contacts or add to them etc) I tried putting a test contact "iphone test" on my phone, yahoo test on my yahoo account, and mac test contact on my laptop address book, and gmail test in my gmail's contacts, and synched again.... For the most part every test contact showed up everywhere (not yahoo test in gmail's account mind you)
4. GREAT I thought. I will just DELETE the contacts in the mac address book, yahoo, gmail accounts, fix my iphone duplicate contacts so I have one perfect set on the iphone and resynch and I should have my iphone contacts filling in all the right places (yahoo, gmail, and mac address book from the iphone) and they will all now be identical... SO WRONG!
5. None of the prior contacts would sync. Only new contacts will synch (ones that were never before synched, ie, a new iphone test contact WILL show up in my Mac address book but the other 100 won't (apparently the computer knows they were already synced or something.)
I am now left with all my contacts on my phone and none in my computer! I have synched in itunes about 10 times with "contacts" checked trying different settings for yahoo, gmail but no source will retake my iphone contacts now that it was synced and the mac address book deleted...
Can anyone help???

Thanks for your timely response. I really appreciate the heads up on the My Contacts Backup App since when you have gone from 4 copies of contacts to one you are starting to feel insecure...
Unfortunately, after following this to a "T" (2x) no luck... The mac address book was empty to begin with so I added three new contacts, synched and then started from there...
I unchecked the sync box and synched. Deleted 2 of the 3 contacts and checked the "sync contacts"--all contacts (I have no groups). It synched without prompting me for a merge and the new single contact did not show up in the iphone... bummer. Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
SORRY, I ACCIDENTALLY GAVE MYSELF HELPFUL POINTS AND THEY WERE FOR RANDERS4....

While doing the backup via iTune, my contacts in iPhone AND iPad have been completely wiped out. They are still all available on my Address Book on my Mac. Any idea what happened and how to resolve this ?

While doing the backup via iTune, my contacts in iPhone AND iPad have been completely wiped out. They are still all available on my Address Book on my Mac. Any idea what happened and how to resolve this ?

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When I try to open my Address Book from Finder, it says :You can't use this version with this version of Mac OS x. I have Address Book 5.0.3 and Mac OS X 10.7.5 What should I do to get my Address Book back???

When I try to open my Address Book from Finder, it says :You can't use this version with this version of Mac OS x. I have Address Book 5.0.3 and Mac OS X 10.7.5 What should I do to get my Address Book back???

Unless you deleted Address Book 6, or restored from a backup made before you upgraded to Lion, Address Book 6 should be on your disk somewhere. Try to find it with spotlight or by browsing likely folders with Finder. Also check Trash. If you find other Address Books, using Quick View or Get Info in Finder should show the version number.
Have you ever moved Address Book out of the Applications folder, either before or after you upgraded to Lion?
If you can't figure out how this happened in the first place, I would be worried that other OS X utilities are similarly affected.

HT1296 I have the original iPhone and I can't sync the address book from my Mac to the iPhone. What should be the problem and can I sync?

I have the original iPhone and I can't sync the address book from my Mac to the iPhone. What should be the problem and can I sync?

Thanks a lot for the answer. I'm so upset, have no even one contact on my phone. I has to do with the moving to iCloud from MobileMe.
I did exactly what you wrote, and when trying to click the vcf file on the iPhone the screen freezing, and then after few long seconds it goes alon to home.
So I tried less contacts in a Vcard, and i'm dividing my address book, doing little by little and it work.
Thank you so much.
I still dont get why the sync with my computer address book is not working.
And why when I moved to icloud all the photos I had next to the contacts are disappered.
I had my iPad, which it still, I did not move from MobileMe to iCloud and all the photos are there!
Anything I can do to use the iCloud on the iPad as well and update the iCloud with the photos?

HT204150 My contacts on my iphone haven't synchronised with my address book on my MAc. Have done every remedy listed and it still doesnt work. Any ideas?

My contacts on my iphone haven't synchronised with my address book on my MAc. Have done every remedy listed and it still doesnt work. Any ideas?

The way iCloud works is that it isn't actually 'syncing', though this is how it's often referred to. The data lives on the iCloud server and is read from there by the various devices (just like webmail). Therefore when you make a change on your iPhone you are actually changing the iCloud website (there is an internal procedure to allow you to make the changes while you are offline, and they are then changed on the site when you next connect).
Therefore any device whose changes appear on the iCloud site, and who can read changes on the site made by other devices, is working: and any device whose changes do not appear, and which cannot receive changes made by other devices which have appeared on the site, is failing to connect. This appears to be the issue with your Mac.
When this happens, sometimes signing out and in again resets the whole setup and corrects the problem. If another device such as your iPhone is connecting to the iCloud server correctly then nothing you do on it will affect your Mac. (In fact even if it isn't connecting it has no effect on your Mac, only on its own ability to transmit changes to the iCloud server).

I have set up ical and address book on my mac. We have 2 separate mail accounts but want to sync ical and addresses to both phones can i do this

I have set up ical and address book on my mac
We have 2 gmail addresses and 2 icloud accounts
I would like to share the ical and address book between the 2 phones
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He needs to add your Apple ID in settings > mail, contacts, calendars (as a secondary iCloud account), then check contacts and calendars from the options available.
Note, he would be able to enable mail, reminders etc as well at will. should he wish to do so. If you are OK with that, it should all work as you want it to.

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