Apple apps cannot find contacts (like in Mail.app)

Any Apple app that I open under an upgraded Mountain Lion, is nit seeing any addresses in Contacts.
For instance, when I start a new message in Mail, and try to insert an address of a known person, there is no result, and only a endless "loading" gif.
It doesn't work when when I want to find contacts in Facetime or share in Photobooth.
The only time it does work, is after I gave 3rd party apps permissions to use my Contacts.
Any idea how to sort this out?

I had the same issue and after looking into a few other threads for ideas, I have finally found a way to get my contacts back into Mail.
Follow these steps and it might help you:
close Mail
go to /Users/<insert_your_user_here>/Library/Containers/ with the 'go to folder' command from the 'Go' menu in the Finder
look for the com.apple.mail folder and just put it in the trash.
disclaimer: you will loose most of your mail's settings, including junk training, stationnaries, toolbars and more.
re-launch Mail.
Your addressbook panel should not be empty anymore.

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