Contacts disappear from address book but in messages

Hi,
I have an iphone 3g which I had unlocked by the network in Australia and have since moved back to the UK.
Since placing a UK sim card (o2) in the iphone whenever I add a new contact to my phone book, it does not display in the Phones contact list. However it does show if i search under my messages, and I can then make a call to the number this way.
A slight but not idea work around is to call the number and then add it to my favorites in address book. Does anyone know why this is happening ? I thought it maybe saving on my sim but have since read that iPhones cannot write to the sim.. Thx

So in fact Address Book synchronizes with iCloud only, not locally on the Mac.
And when I sync with iPhone, it syncs with the Mac and not with iCloud.
No better way t have non updated Address Book.
I suspect this is another Apple ID mess. Apple resembles Land Rover here (never could properly
update my Address Book in my GPS contacts from my iPhone)

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Contacts disappearing from address book

random contacts keep disappearing from my address book.
i am syncing 2 computers, 2 ipads and 1 iphone with the cloud. running 10.8.2, build 12C60, all of my iOS devices are up to date.
i will get a text from someone (on my phone) and their name will not show up, just their number. this is a person who i know was in my address book, but has now mysteriously vanished (from all devices and when i log into icloud.com).
this happened to me this morning, i added that person back to my address book via add contact in messages on my phone. now they show up in all address books.
i decided to try to restore from time machine. i deleted my current address book, deleted the cache, and turned off icloud syncing.
i went back in my time machine to more than a week ago.
i replaced the bad address book folder with the the time machine address book folder.
i launched address book.
i search for the missing person,
they are not there as they used to be, but the data that i added back this morning (minus all the other information that used to be in my address book about them, such as their address, etc.) is there.
how is that possible if i am not syncing with the cloud yet?????
and more importantly, where are my addresses going??
any help is greatly appreciated, this is driving me nuts!

I don't mean to add confusion to your problem Stephaniemiami, but hopefully my problem is possibly related closely enough that a solution to it from one of the very knowledgeable contributors here may assist your own.
I've just installed Leopard 5.1 then immediately upgraded to 5.2 whereupon my previously faultless address book (Tiger) stopped functioning.
Launching from the dock results in the icon freezing (no bounce and no AB), but the app name itself shows in the menubar. Another click on the static icon and the AB appears. However, though all of my contact's names are visible (groups et al) as expected, there is no additional data at all for any of them. I can click on and highlight any name I wish but no relevant card or info appears; the "edit" button on the window does not respond to clicking either.
I'm about to give Austin Kinsella1's suggestion to you for myself, as some others here have.

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I turned on my computer this morning and opened Mail to send out a message. I began typing an address only to find that Mail was not suggesting the address like it usually does. I opened Address Book and all my contacts were completely wiped.
I went into my .Mac account online and they were still there, only the account said it had last synced in April. I have had my system, set to Autosync for quite some time. Apparently in never synced those. I tried syncing it downward back to Address Book and it never filled up. Additionally, I have added many contacts since April and those are not on .Mac. A couple of days ago, I had to take my computer down to another office where I had to work for a couple of days and then I had to bring it back home last night. That is the only thing I have done since I last used my Address Book.
The last time I rememebered using it was yesterday at that other office. I was very careful last night when bringing it home. Does anybody have any idea what could have happened? And also, if there is an auto backup that Address Book puts somewhere? Please help!!!

That's the other weird part to this whole mess. When I reset the sync data for the Address Book and told it to overwrite the computer with .Mac, it never downloads even a single item. Furthermore, I have noticed a problem for about 3 months now when I click on my iDisk icon in the Finder I get the following error message:
The volume for "iDisk" cannot be found.
I have updated everything and this is still happening. .Mac hasn't really been up to what it was supposed to be the last few months. Especially when it said that my online addressbook had not been synced since April when I have had it set to auto since then, and have made many additions.

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I dont believe you can. The address book usually makes use of photos already available on your drive, such as those in your iphoto libraryd, or the login icons, etc. Perhaps the lack of drag and drop is something they unintentionally left out, in which case you can request it by sending Apple feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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how do i send a contact list from address book to another person via email?

And your destination user uses a mac?
Click on the group name.
Go to the menu File > Export VCard . . .
Save that file and send it.
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Outlook had this nice feature allowing v card attachment for any contact in the address book to be attached to outgoing email. Will Thunderbird ever have something equivalent? Currently using Select Address book Text add on but still not V Card attach simplicity.

There is an addon which can help.
MoreFunctionsForAddressBook.
* https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
Download file to desktop or downloads file.
In Thunderbird
Tools > Addons
or
Menu icon > addons
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locate the file you downloaded and click on Open
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In 'Address Book'
right click on contact in list and select 'Send as vcard'.
If you want to add more than one vcard:
Press Ctrl key and select contacts to highlight, then right click on highlighted contacts and select Send as vcard'.
This opens a new Write message with that contact(s) added as vcard attachment(s).
There is also the option from the 'Contacts Sidebar' in a new Write window, but I'm not having any success from this method at this moment...maybe it will work for others...perhaps due to a bug, but I've reported it the author. At least it still works via Address Book.

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I have contact in my Address Book that wont go to my iphone,
I have reset my iphone,
added another directory to my Address book, but do not show in Itunes.
Put a test card on my iphone, but not added to my Address book.
I am not sure if this is an iphone problem or Itunes not syncing with my Address Book.
I have tried to delete Itunes and down load again.
Any one have an idea what else to try

To reset sync history on windows:
In itunes, click on edit at the top of itunes and choose preferences.
Now click on the syncing or iphone tab when the preferences window comes up.
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Contacts keep disappearing from Address Book

I have a problem that's driving me nuts. I am building subscriber lists but when I send out my newsletter, I started getting responses that people had missed out. So I checked and people I knew I had added to my Address Book Groups weren't there.
I spilt the group into two when it got to around 300 because I thought that might help.
Then I realised that Add To Address Book wasn't working from Mail's email address data detectors – it opens AB but doesn't add them, so then I went all the way back through and manually added the last few weeks worth.
Next day, however, all the new ones were gone. So I turned off MobileMe synccing and did it again. (Even so, that was set to use the MBP as the base, not vice versa.) Next day, all gone again (I shut down every night). I added the number to the group names so I could quickly check (dragging a list of addresses gives you an instant count).
Even more explicably, today the group names had reverted to the previous counts – and the previous names, even! Mb A-K 140 and MB L0Z 127, when the actual counts should be 152 and 146 (luckily I had exported V-cards with the manually added addresses in them).
What is going on?! I had deleted AB plists too – no difference. I do have an iPhone with Push turned on.

Hey Barney-15E, you did a great job!
The phenomena in my case were a little different from the thread you mentioned, but after all it was Repair Permissions function (using Disk Utility) that made it all working stable again.
Thanks again!

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Hi I have seen a few other posts with this problem and no clear solution that seems to work for me.
I have manually entered my old phone numbers into the Address Book on my MacBook Pro but when I try and sync these to the iPhone only the first 153 in alphabetical order out of 182 show up. I have tried to Reset Sync History in the Sync Preferences and have restored the iPhone settings.
Does anyone have a solution?

I have had a similar problem, except it seems that contacts with only one work phone number don't sync. Or, the contact will sync to the iphone, but with no phone numbers.
I created a new card in address book with a company name and one phone number and it does not sync to the iphone. No errors or anything.
I have contacts set to sync all.
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Gary.

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I was making some groups in the address book application on my macbook and when i went to add a couple of my contacts, i noticed they weren't there even though i just now synced my phone. How do i fully update all my contacts on my phone to the address book?

Thanks for linking your Address Book Accounts Basics (with iCloud). And for all your forum contributions - invaluable!
A possible tip to add is the obscure option key solution to the question: to what groups does the selected contact belong? When the option key is depressed all associated groups are displayed.
On syncing: is there an Applescript or utility that will audit every linked iCloud account, Mac and iOS device for discrepancies between the Contacts databases? I thinking of the simple case like ours, where we want everything stored in the iCloud Account once-only-once, plus whatever Group-ings are useful. Even better - a script or utility that will force synchronization across all our devices and iCloud?
Another useful tip might be: here are all the things you must do to achieve simple syncronycity - everything the same everywhere, no private contacts. That is probably what 99.99% of users want, and it is not documented anywhere. Even Joe Kissel's Take Control of iCloud v1.3 doesn't address this.

How do I share a contact's details directly from Address Book?

It seems that the only way to share contact information from Address Book is to export a vcard to say, the desktop, and then email the vcard as an attachment using Mail.
Is there a more direct way of sharing a contact's information rather than this 2 step process?

Thanks Thomas.
This works, but still requires a new mail message to be open. I would have thought there would be something more intuitive such as highlighting the contact, and using the contextual menu to 'Share'. As it stands the only options with the contextual menu are Export, Edit and Spotlight. Surely adding in Share (or Email) wouldn't be too much of a challenge (Apple, are you listening?)
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On OS X MacBook and iMac I can use Drag and drop Contact functionality from Address Book directly on a Pages document. In Pages I have setup Merge fields to merge values from my Contacts. This works great!
I would also like to use this in Pages on my iPad mini. I know Pages on iOS are different from Pages for OS X, but I wonder if there is any possibility for me to open OS X created Pages document with Merge fields on iPad's Pages and replace existing Contacts values with new one from Address Book?
It seems like Pages on iOS even don't recognise Merge fields that I have created on OS X at all.

Are you dragging directly from one application and dropping into the other? What happens if you export to vcf card then import the vcf card with the other application?

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Hello Gabriella,
I don't have pages, but it looks like Pages must have a built in feature...
Mail merge automatically populates custom fields with contact data from Address Book or from Numbers to create personalized documents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pages
Then there's AddressBook Exporter...
http://gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html

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I'm a new user and was wondering if there was a way to import/transfer/copy my contact details from Address Book to ICloud?

Open Address Book on your Mac, select the All Contacts group (if you have multiple groups), click on a single contact, press Command-A to select All Contacts, go to File>Export>Export vCard and save this file on your desktop. Then import the file you just saved to your contacts on icloud.com as explained here: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mmfba7399f.

Contacts disappear from address book but in messages

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