Cannot sync address book

I have an iphone 3G (model MA712LL) i'd like to upgrade to a 4S. When i try and sync my 3 to itunes the phone shows up the main screen just shows white with the word "iPhone" in the center- no other options. The only choice i have is to eject. I'm running OS 10.6.8 and upgraded iTunes to 10.5. I tired different cables, different ports- no luck. I tried a different iPhone- a 3GS and it showed up with all the syncing options.
I also tried a hard re-set on the phone, and trashing my plist with no luck.
any suggestions would be much appreciated so i can back up my old phone.
thanks.

Click Accept as Solution for posts that have solved your issue(s)!
Be sure to click Like! for those who have helped you.
Install BlackBerry Protect it's a free application designed to help find your lost BlackBerry smartphone, and keep the information on it secure.

Similar Messages

IPhone cannot sync address book, "too many flushes" in console

Hello, ran into this recently and its driving me nuts. I've restored the phone twice, without restoring a backup, setting it up as a new phone each time.
It'll sync everything else fine but not this. I have reset the sync history in isync, deleted my address book completely (I have a backup of it) yet iTunes still shows the old groups under the info tab. I've double checked that I am the owner on the permissions page of the mail/ical/itunes/etc.... folders in %users/Library. Repaired permissions. I'm running out of things to check.
Whenever I try to sync this is the information that can be found in the Console. I've deleted preferences, i'm almost ready to completely blow itunes away and re-import/re-rate my itunes library from scratch!
2/27/10 1:19:44 PM AddressBookSync[804] [111520] |Miscellaneous|Error| SyncServices assertion failure (_flushCount > 0) in [ISDClientState enableFlush], /SourceCache/SyncServices2/SyncServices2-578/SyncServices/ISDClientState.m:181 too many enableFlushes
2/27/10 1:19:44 PM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[799] 2010-02-27 13:19:44.891 AddressBookSync[804:903] [111520] |Miscellaneous|Error| SyncServices assertion failure (_flushCount > 0) in [ISDClientState enableFlush], /SourceCache/SyncServices2/SyncServices2-578/SyncServices/ISDClientState.m:181 too many enableFlushes
2/27/10 1:19:44 PM AddressBookSync[804] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: [ISDClientState enableFlush]: too many enableFlushes
2/27/10 1:19:44 PM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[799] 2010-02-27 13:19:44.891 AddressBookSync[804:903] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: [ISDClientState enableFlush]: too many enableFlushes
I also cannot sync anything from the Info tab, contacts, calendars, can't replace the data either. If I enable iCal syncing it just hangs on the sync and doesn't error out. it'll stay syncing contacts for over 12 hours so far with no change.
Message was edited by: thirdgen89gta

Now isn't this interesting. I decided on a whim to have console open when I reset the sync preferences. And this is what it reported. Definitely some permissions errors. I've already run
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Warning| Resetting Sync Data - Including Clients and Schemas=NO
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |Server|Warning| Admin database corrupted. Resetting data directory.
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.Bookmarks/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x1001a5320 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.Calendars/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x1001b1860 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.Contacts/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x1001a8ac0 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.dashboard.widgets/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x10019e0a0 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.dock.items/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x1001a8210 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.Keychain/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x1001a9b60 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.MailAccounts/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x100505d60 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.MailConfiguration/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x10051a990 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.Notes/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x100525f70 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.Preferences/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x100511a90 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Error| Unable to remove /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.microsoft.entourage.Notes/data.syncdb, error was Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x10051b3d0 "“data.syncdb” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."
2/27/10 3:26:06 PM SyncServer[769] [124bf0] |DataManager|Warning| resetSyncData: could not delete data reference directory: /Users/rr152510/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/DataReferences
2/27/10 3:26:09 PM AddressBookSync[787] [111540] |ISDRecordStore|Error| Unable to delete data reference <ISDDataWrapper[7621EBDE-367B-474C-9511-6635DA1605B9.com.apple.AddressBook.data ] signature=<23c511c0 58a95e02 5f839cb7 3e5a070a 104d4f50>>, error was Error Domain=ISyncDataWrapperError Code=2 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (ISyncDataWrapperError error 2.)"
2/27/10 3:26:09 PM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[786] 2010-02-27 15:26:09.404 AddressBookSync[787:903] [111540] |ISDRecordStore|Error| Unable to delete data reference <ISDDataWrapper[7621EBDE-367B-474C-9511-6635DA1605B9.com.apple.AddressBook.data ] signature=<23c511c0 58a95e02 5f839cb7 3e5a070a 104d4f50>>, error was Error Domain=ISyncDataWrapperError Code=2 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (ISyncDataWrapperError error 2.)"
2/27/10 3:26:10 PM AddressBookSync[787] [111540] |Miscellaneous|Error| SyncServices assertion failure (_flushCount > 0) in [ISDClientState enableFlush], /SourceCache/SyncServices2/SyncServices2-578/SyncServices/ISDClientState.m:181 too many enableFlushes
2/27/10 3:26:10 PM AddressBookSync[787] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: [ISDClientState enableFlush]: too many enableFlushes
2/27/10 3:26:10 PM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[786] 2010-02-27 15:26:10.964 AddressBookSync[787:903] [111540] |Miscellaneous|Error| SyncServices assertion failure (_flushCount > 0) in [ISDClientState enableFlush], /SourceCache/SyncServices2/SyncServices2-578/SyncServices/ISDClientState.m:181 too many enableFlushes
2/27/10 3:26:10 PM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[786] 2010-02-27 15:26:10.976 AddressBookSync[787:903] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: [ISDClientState enableFlush]: too many enableFlushes
After running sudo chown -R rr152510 SyncServices/ from terminal I received the same errors. So either its not following through the sub-directories and changing the owner, or its something else. Gonna try it from the root user, though sudo should have given me permissions to do anything I wanted.

My iphone is on the exchange server cannot sync address book

My iPhone is on exchange server.... I cannot sync my contact between iPhone and iMac also, my exchange Calendar on the iPhone doesn't sync into my iMac

That's one of the limits of ActiveSync & in fact is the way most employers want things. There is nothing you can do to change this.

Motorola Razor, ISync cannot sync Address Book to Razor

Does anyone know why I cant get my address book phone numbers in my Razer V3r via bluetooth?
The bluetooth in both Razor phone & PowerBook are working fine.
It used to work but for some reason it is only sending info to my power book, not receiving it to the phone!
Thanks In advance

This forum is for iPhone issues. Re-post your question in the iSync forum.

Cannot select 'Selected groups' to sync address book contacts to ipad

Hi,
After i upgraded to iOS5, I cannot select 'selected groups' to sync address books to ipad. I am syncing via icloud, but there is no option so sync selected groups contacts, nor via itunes for manual sync.
Can anyone help, please.

Exported addresses from Address Book to desktop and then deleted all addresses from Address Book.
Deleted file AddressBook-v22.ab** from Library>Application Support>AddressBook.
Exited Address Book and iTunes, restarted Address Book and imported addresses from desktop.
Restarted iTunes and all of the groups were visible in the "Synch Address Book Contacts" window.

Syncing Address Book contacts with iPod

I know some people will think this post should be in the iPod forum but I have realised that it is not my iPod beccasue I tried using a different iPod and the same problem happened. Anyway...the problem is that when I choose to sync Address Book contacts with iPod it comes up with this message:
No contacts available
Contact syncinig cannot be enabled because there are no contacts available. Do you want to open Address Book and create contacts now?
And gives me the options: Cancel and Open Address Book
I have tried deleting several different preferences for iTunes, Address Book and iSync (just incase).
I don't know what else to do, I know I can manually add my contacts by exporting them all as a vCard but it would be so much easier if iTunes could do it. Please help if you know anything!
iMac G5 (iSight) Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.9GHz PowerPC G5, 512MB RAM, 17" Widescreen
iMac G5 (iSight) Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.9GHz PowerPC G5, 512MB RAM, 17" Widescreen

I've got Calenders syncing again, not sure how I did it. I deleted the one of the folders in /Users/Alex/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/clientdata/
I found that in each folder there is a clientname.txt file with the name of what data is in the folder e.g. iCal, Safari, Keychain, Mail.
I deleted the iCal one and iTunes seems to be syncing it now. So I looked for a folder with Address Book in the clientname.txt file but there wasn't one. I am wondering whether that's the reason!

Maverick won't permit syncing Address Book or Calendar by USB to iPhone or iPad and permits only syncing by iCloud, which I don't want to use. Any ideas on how to sync without using iCloud?

Maverick won't permit syncing Address Book or Calendar by USB cable from my MacBook Air to my iPhone and iPad and permits syncing only by iCloud. Mountain Lion permitted this via the Info tab on iTunes. I don't want to use iCloud. Any ideas with Maverick on how to sync Address Book and Calendar from computer to iPhone and iPad without using iCloud?

ymcneil - thanks for the work around. But isn't it amazing Apple forces us to do this to maintain our privacy.
I live in Australia where there are good privacy laws protecting citizens. I do not want to be forced to use iCloud when the data sits in the USA with weaker privacy laws and also able to be seen by the US Government under the Patriot Act. Further I suspect Apple will interrogate my contacts and calendar for commercial purposes and I do not want that either.
I chose to synch my calendar and contacts with my iphone and ipad. I have relied for years on carrying around my phone with my diary on it. I can no longer do that.
Whoever made this decision at Apple has to be someone who knows little about the world. I can actually see EU regulators getting very annoyed by this.
I too woud like the itunes mac to iphone/ipad local backup given back.
In the meantime - thanks for the work around

How can I sync address book to iPhone 3?

How can I sync address book from mac book pro to iPhone 3?

Have you tried this article: iOS: Syncing with iTunes - Support - Apple
Go to the Info Tab in iTunes

Syncing Address Book to IPod Classic

Problem: Syncing Address Book to my iPod Classic 80 (using iMac, bought new Dec. 2007)
I have tried again and again to sync my Address Book to the iPod; with always the same weird results.
1. When I sync my iPod to the Address Book, only seven contacts of 166 appear on the iPod - THIS is the problem.
2. On the iTunes Contacts page I have checked; ‘Sync Address Book’ and ‘All Contacts’.
3. During syncing the window states that it is syncing contacts.
4. In the list of ‘Selected Groups’ (I always have ‘All Contacts’ checked) groups appear that I have deleted in Address Book.
5. I used Bento in the past, and didn’t like it; I have moved Bento from the application folder to the Trash. Could Bento be interfering somehow?
6. On Preferences I have tried vCard 3.1 and 2.0, neither worked - 3.1 is currently selected.
7. In Address Book, I did an archive backup. And then restored with the archive, no difference, with the sync. The restore worked fine in Address Book.
8. As a test, in Address Book I deleted one of the seven contacts, that do appear on the iPod (see 1. above); then synced; it still appears on my iPod - the contact that won’t die.
9. Syncing of Calendars works fine.
10. I have tried resetting the iPod. Still no difference after syncing, still only seven contacts appear, including the deleted one.
11. Where is the data for the Address Book stored on the computer? If I deleted all the data files in Address Book, would that help? Would the files rebuild themselves with the restore archive?
12. The iPod software is up to date.
13. Resetting the iPod did not change anything.
14. I did the sync manually - syncing only Contacts, still only seven contacts.
What can I do? Any ideas would be appreciated. Using the iPod for contacts would very useful - I really do not want to buy another device or a cell phone (PDA) that also stores addresses.
Thanks, Diane

OK - Now we have some progress. I did as suggested and 'Reset Sync History', The seven contacts on the iPod are gone! However, it still is not syncing up my contacts. I reset the iPod, tried manually, restarted the computer, etc. - it didn't help. Thank you for the suggestion.
Thank You, Diane

What is the best way to sync Address Book contacts?

Please help!
I run a small Mac network and I need to sync all (we have 8 Macs) the Mac's Address Book's with each other and also with 5 different iPhones. We have a Mac Server running Tiger and all the Macs are running Tiger. 4 of the Macs are Intel. The server is PowerPC.
At the moment I am just using 1 .Mac account to sync to them all, but this is causing many problems with duplications, errors and 'stress!'
The reason for the above setup is money. But, as the problems continue and the syncing become more important, money is now allowed to be spent.
My question really is, as the subject header says, 'What is the best way to sync Address Book contacts?' In the past I have tried XC Connect, and a few other apps, but with the introduction of the iPhones, the setup has become more complex.
If I were to buy all new Intel Macs and an Intel Mac Server all running Snow Leopard, would the 'Address Book Server' do the job? I have found very little information on the net and the information I did find was all negative.
Is there something Leopard can do that Tiger can't? Is Tiger nolonger a good enough system to try and run an Address Book network?
Does anybody else out there in the Mac world have a similar setup to mine, and if so, how do you have your setup.
Incidentally, ALL users, incuding iPhone users, need read & write access to the Address Book!!
Any solutions or suggestions would be most welcome.
Thanks in advance
col_t

Oh, I meant Leopard does do more than Tiger Server.
I don't know enough about Server, even less abut Syncing.
SL is to new, not enough time to iron out the kinks yet imho.
One day SL will be better than Leo, but...
I'd ask over in server...
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=96
Or perhaps Collaboration Services...
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1352
They may even have a different opinion on SL.

Sync Address Books w/o iphone

Is it possible to sync address books on two computers (same OSX) without a .mac account nor an iphone? I also tried working through google. And although I have the sync with google option in pref of address book, when I click on it nothing happens after I log into my google account. Does it also need .mac?

You don't need a MobileMe account for this.
I'm running Snow Leopard on my Mac and via Address Book preferences there is an option to sync contacts with a Google account, and/or with a Yahoo account.

Error message "cannot open address book file" thunderbird freezes

If I try to write an e-mail i get an error message "cannot open address book file". Then the program freezes, and I can not close the page, and none of the features of thunderbird works.

Do you have the .swf file available still ?

"Sync Address Book Contacts" option missing all groups

I had a problem with multiple copies of contacts on my iPhone so I deselected the "Sync Address Book Contacts" box in iTunes before synching. The popup said that all contacts would be removed from the iPhone, and I clicked to proceed. When the sync was complete, I verified that all contacts had been removed from my iPhone (they were).
Then I reselected the "Sync Address Book Contacts" but noticed that all 15 of the groups from my MacBook that normally appear in the box with the All Contacts/Selected Groups button were missing. I opened Address Book and they were all there.
I did a backup of Address Book and then deleted all of my contacts on my MacBook. I quit and restarted my MacBook and then imported my Address Book backup before connecting my iPhone and trying to sync the contacts again, but again, none of the groups appeared in the window and after proceeding with the sync anyway, not a single contact went to the iPhone. I've tried it by both selecting and deselecting the Contacts box under the "Replace information on this iPhone".
- I connected an iPod touch that didn't have any contact info to the MacBook and, as before, the groups from my address book did not show up and after synching, none of the contacts were installed on the iPod Touch, leaving me to believe that it is something iTunes related except that all of my calendars and music etc. sync without a problem.
- I've got the latest iTunes (10.1) and Snow Leopard s/w updates.
Any ideas?

Exported addresses from Address Book to desktop and then deleted all addresses from Address Book.
Deleted file AddressBook-v22.ab** from Library>Application Support>AddressBook.
Exited Address Book and iTunes, restarted Address Book and imported addresses from desktop.
Restarted iTunes and all of the groups were visible in the "Synch Address Book Contacts" window.

MacBook Pro 17" iTunes can't sync address book with iPad Air

Can't sync between MacBook Pro 10.6 OS ver and new iPad Air (bought 2 days ago) cell 32gig. Have been to Apple shop at Garden City WA, helpful but seems very little knowledge of 10.6 OS. Have attempted upgrade on MacBook to Lion OS, persevered and seemed to work. Except now the MacBook won't boot, even choosing drive unit, just spins the icon. Even left it for a few hours just in case it needed time to sort itself out.
Back to Apple shop first thing in the morning, getting MacBook up and running is first priority followed by syncing address book with iPad. If can't sync guess I'll have to return it as having them communicate is why I brought the iPad, something lighter in my brief case instead of carrying the MacBook around.
It became tiring being told the MacBook was old technology, having spent money with Apple upgrading the MacBook drive & memory to cope with Final Cut and Creative suite.
Any advice most welcome!

Figured it out and it wasn't fun. I watched the console messages as I deleted groups and tried to sync with Mobile Me until no error msg was displayed. Then I restored AB from a back up and proceeded to delete contacts one at a time and check for errors until none were displayed. After deleting about half my contacts under the one group I finally found the one contact. I then did another AB restore, deleted the troubled contact, sync'd fine, then did another backup. I have no idea why that one contact was the problem as everything looked fine. Console msgs only showed a silly number as the contact, not the name, which is why I had to go through all this. But...it's fixed.

My MacBook Pro will not sync address book changes with my IPhone. Why? It used to.

My MacBook Pro will not sync address book changes with my IPhone. Why? It used to.

Then you may have to try manually resetting the syncservices folder by following Julian Write's post (from https://discussions.apple.com/message/9274781#9274781):
Ok, as you can't reset SyncServices in the "normal" way, you'll have to resort to the "other" way:
Although it's not advised to do so in normal circumstances, you'll need to manually delete the SyncServices folder.
Before doing so, you MUST make a backup of both your Contacts and Calendars:
In Address Book, choose *Export > Address Book Archive...* from the File menu.
In iCal, choose *Back up iCal...* from the File menu.
Then, make a backup of the SyncServices folder located at:
~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices
By backing everything up first, you don't risk losing anything.
Finally delete the aforementioned SyncServices folder and restart the Mac. This will force Mac OS X to recreate the SyncServices folder, and hopefully fix your problem.
I believe in Snow Leopard you can back up your calendar in File>Export>iCal Archive rather than File>Back up iCal as posted above.

Cannot sync address book

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for