Address book rejects my icloud password

I am using Mac os X ver 10.5.8 When I go to the address book and try to log on to my mobile me account which I assume is the new icloud account it reject my password thus I am unable to sync from my icloud to my address book on my mac. any suggestions how I can resolve this? my password works fine with my iphone..

at the very least, you need Snow Leopard, though I was informed that Mt. Lion is even better. I have Lion on my Air and SL on my Mini. Am hoping I an trasition both to Mt. Lion very soon.

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Thank you for letting me know!
Going to give it a go. Had a back up of all my clients files stupidly not my software as I have the originals disks. Just realised that amongst the software is ibiz and have lost al my accounting and billing files for the last 7 years want to cry so losing my contacts now will really tip me over the edge!
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Hi All,
I cannot seem to sync my address book contacts in icloud. I have search for some info online which suggested that I go into my address book preferences and set it up to icloud but this option does not show in the preferences.
Any advice?
thanks.

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It is no longer possible to view groups, list, and cards at the same time, just groups and list or list and cards. This means it is very cumbersome to organize cards to multiple groups, something that wa relatively easy before. Why not allow us to see all three at once and conveniently drag and delete?
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My address book has been an intense problem for me for a while (i.e. even pre-iPhone 4s/iCloud). Before I upgraded, my iPhone 4 had thousands of duplicate contacts. The address book was up to ~7,500 even though what was then Mobile Me had somewhere in the 1,000 to 1,500 range for contacts. So after I upgraded, I attempted to fix it by doing the following:
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So next I tried checking just the Sync Address Book Contacts option on the info tab which then allowed me to check contacts under the Advanced/Replace Information on this iPhone section at the bottom of the info tab. This made my iPhone contact list further balloon up to 13,000 + contacts.
So the next thing I did (still in the info tab) was to select Selected Groups under the "Sync Address Book Contacts" section of the info tab. I believe I still had the option to replace the info on my iPhone selected. I then selected one of my contact groups that had no contacts in it. Why would I create a contact group with no contacts in it? I didn't. I created some smart groups and prior to my iPhone 4s upgrade I noticed the smart groups contact lists I spent some time setting up were not populated with anything. Same with some of the non-smart group contact lists I had created.
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http://tech.kateva.org/2012/06/icloud-transition-went-as-expected.html
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GFMA wrote:
I don't see a way to import specifically to iCloud. I tried this but when I select import, it jsut imports it back to the server AB. I can't select for it to overwrite iCloud.
As for the vCard option, thats for individual contacts no? I have thousands of contacts... that would take forever!
Thanks for your help, bu what am I missing here?
I suggested exporting to an Address Book Archive, did you do that or did you choose vcard?

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2) Getting my iCal to just use the iCloud address book entries
3) And if none of the above, how to easily transfer all recent iCal entries back to "On My Mac" so that I can just forget about iCloud altogether
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abubnic wrote:
I feel your frustration, Quilps. I went through the exact same thing.
Yes, part of the answer is to delete (or archive and delete) the copies for the ON MY MAC group.
But for me, I think the problem was more than an "ON MY MAC" copy and an ICloud copy. I think I was bringing in copies of the databases that were stored on my other devices. I may have synced some of the devices with ITUNES after I had made the move to the Cloud. Bad move.
In any event, it ended up fairly disastrously until I figured out a way to delete everything, get one clean copy and bring it everywhere.
Just wanted others to NOT experience the ordeal I went through in order to get it right.
I'm not Quilps

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Is there some reason why, since iCloud, we have to have duplicates of every Contact in our Address Book?
Additionally, when I'm cleaning up my Address Book on my MacBook Pro (10.7.3) there's no way to tell if a contact is in "On My Mac" or "iCloud".
I have seen no clear discussion of this. If I change an entry for "John Q Smith" in my Address Book, why doesn't it "Unify" as they do on my iPhone? I end up with two different Address Book entries, one in either iCloud or "On My Mac" with the changes and another without the changes.
There is no field on an "Address Book" contact indicating its source ["On My Mac", or "iCloud"].
Why do I need two entries for every entry in my Address Book? This issue has been correctly identified and treated on the iPhone — I get a "Unified" classification and a change to the Contact happens synchronously.

I am already configured for, and using iCloud as my default account.
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