Data in my iMac address book and iCloud contacts do not match.

The data in my iMac address book and iCloud contacts are different. How can I get my iCloud data to accruately reflect that of my iMac address book? It appears to be an initial synchronization issue. New entries synchronize fine. Appears that initial entries in my Address Book are not showing up in the iCloud Contacts list. Hense, My iPhone coantacts don't match those in my iMac.
Is there a way to clean out my iCloud contacts on reload/re-sychronize it with my iMac Address Book?

Nuts isn't it. This seems to have been an issue snce dAY 1. iT FROSTS ME THAT THERE IS NO SIMPLE QUICK WAY TO UPDATE OR CORRECT the data in both programs simultaneously.. Thats why i decided to just put everytning into the i cloud address brook, and let the one other sit and rot.
then i got smart and said, why don't I delete the outlookaddress book files. and save on confusion.
result - both addresses books and their contents became invisible to outlook.!!!!!! and I can find no way to correct this...to go back to the imperfect world that was.
I did get the outlook contact s back from an archive - but any thing from icloud has become inaccessible from outlook. (fortunately i can get the vcard infformation directly from icloud. but I can't access it from outlook mail.... means no replying, forwarding etc - and a time swallowing nuisance..
aNYONE WILLING TO DUMP SEWAGE ON MICROSOFT AND aPPLE... UNCOOPERATIVE TWITS. - boh should be smacked.

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My iMac (OS 10.7.5) Address Book no longer syncs (in iCloud) with Contacts from iPhone 5 or iPad 1, since installing iOS 6.0.2.
Any solutions?

Hello Doc Dunc,
If you are having issues with syncing your contacts with iCloud, then take a look at the article below for some general troubleshooting to get it sorted out.
Get help using iCloud Contacts
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3998
Regards,
-Norm G.

Address Book and iCloud

I am using OS 10.7.4. How do I get the data from my Address Book into iCloud contacts?

Roger emailed me, but I've only just seen it and note that Roger seems to have answered your question.
One thing I might add is that if you are going to keep your 'On My Mac' group' as a duplicate of your 'iCloud' group to facilitate keeping an identical contact list on your pre iOS 5 devices, you may find the simplest way to do this is simply copy the whole bunch of contacts from iCloud to On My Mac every now and again, this should save painstaking searching to identify new contacts and copy them across individually.
To do this:
Go to the groups (Either from the view menu, hitting the tag at the top of address book or typing cmd+3)
Select 'All iCloud'
Ensure the search field is empty
Select the first contact in the list
Shift-select the last contact in the list (This should select every contact)
Drag all the contacts to the 'All on my Mac' group
Select 'import' from the dialogue box that appears
This will not end up with duplicate contacts within the same group, if you add any new contacts using your pre iOS 5 devices, you can copy in the same way from 'On My Mac' to 'iCloud'.
Take a little time to see how choosing groups in the group section affects how your contacts are displayed in Address Book, to avoid working with the wrong groups.

HT4489 how do you move your address book to icloud contacts?

how do you move your address book to icloud contacts?

In Address book on Mac - right click on the group you want to export.
Select Export Vcard
log in to iCloud and select contacts.
Select group you want to import them into
Bottom left click on the gearbox icon
Select import Vcard
Select same location you exported from the Mac
Mine populated in about a minute
Hope this helps.

My icloud Contacts do not match my address book all contacts .. I an trying to synchronize icloud with outlook .. it does not appear to synchronize current address book with icloud

I setup icloud to sychronize with outlook ... I have been sychronizing with gmail contacts so the 2 do not match.
I would like to have one contacts file that synchronizes with outlook. How do I make the contacts file on my iphone synchronize with the icloud then with outlook?
Ernie

Nuts isn't it. This seems to have been an issue snce dAY 1. iT FROSTS ME THAT THERE IS NO SIMPLE QUICK WAY TO UPDATE OR CORRECT the data in both programs simultaneously.. Thats why i decided to just put everytning into the i cloud address brook, and let the one other sit and rot.
then i got smart and said, why don't I delete the outlookaddress book files. and save on confusion.
result - both addresses books and their contents became invisible to outlook.!!!!!! and I can find no way to correct this...to go back to the imperfect world that was.
I did get the outlook contact s back from an archive - but any thing from icloud has become inaccessible from outlook. (fortunately i can get the vcard infformation directly from icloud. but I can't access it from outlook mail.... means no replying, forwarding etc - and a time swallowing nuisance..
aNYONE WILLING TO DUMP SEWAGE ON MICROSOFT AND aPPLE... UNCOOPERATIVE TWITS. - boh should be smacked.

Address book and iPhone contacts not syncing

I have just got an iPhone 4. However, I now realise that all of the contact info that I'd been adding over a very long time to my old iPhone 3G has not come across. None of it seems to have synced with the address book on my iMac. Why is this so? It seems that the iMac address book has been overriding my iPhone contacts during the sync (which I do very regularly). Can I get this info back from my Time Machine backup?
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Go into System Preferences -> iCloud. Firstly check that Contact syncing is enabled, and then check that you are signed into the same Apple ID.
Otherwise turn Contact syncing off and then back on. Then select to merge when prompting.

Syncing iPhone to iCal and Address Book and vice versa do not work

I am a 6 year Mac user and a 1 1/2 year iPhone user. What I am about to tell you should have been addressed long ago. When I sync my iPhone to my iMac only the applications and music sync. Neither data from the iCal or Address Book sync either way. I used to be able to sync appointments from my original iPhone to iCal, but my 3G phone does not sync at all. Could you tell me where to turn or what to do. I think I need to fix it.
And, how do I change the calendars on the iPhoen. All events are on the same calendar and I can't figure out how to specify a calendar for an event. You would think I would know this by now, but I don't......Thanks so much

If you have selected the Address Book and iCal under the Info tab for your iPhone 3G sync preferences to sync contact info and calendars with and this is not working, try resetting the sync history on your Mac, which is done via iSync preferences with the iSync application located in your Applications folder.
Quit iTunes, the Address Book, and iCal first. Launch iSync and to to iSync preferences. After selecting reset sync history, restart your Mac and try syncing this data again.
When creating a new calendar event, there is a selection for which calendar you want to place the new event in if you have multiple calendars.
If you have multiple calendars, you can select the calendar you want to create the new event in. After launching Calendar, there is a Calendars selection at the top to view all calendars. You can select a calendar to view all entries for that calendar only and for entering a new event for that calendar. Or select All Calendars to view the events for all calendars. When creating a new event with All Calendars selected, you can choose which calendar with the new event entry.

Multiple address books and duplicate contacts issue

Hi all!
I set up two email accounts in my BB, one is GMail and the other is Yahoo! Both address books are synchronized to the BB too.
Since I already had contacts in my BB list and now contacts coming from GMail and Yahoo!, there are now some duplicate entries (i.e. the same person name coming from BB contacts list and from Yahoo!).
Is there any way to automatically/programatically clean up, merge or hide the duplicated entries? Ideally, each contact should be shown only once with the data merged from the different sources.
Thanks in advance for your help to figure this out!!!

In your Address Book options, set it to not include duplicate names (And the names have to exactly alike), then use your Yahoo or Gmail address web accounts to delete the duplicates. That's one way.
Another would be to export all your contacts to something like an excel spreadsheet, edit and resync back to the device. You'll need Desktop Manager to do this.
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I have my address book syncing very nicely with my exchange server, but notes do not seem to want to sync. If I create a note on the web access, it doesn't copy to the address book, and none of the address book notes copy to the exchange.
I can't get an answer out of Apple Support either if they are supposed to sync or not! Has anyone here gotten notes to sync with exchange?
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Arrgggh! That's a bummer, they could just strip out the notes if they had attachments or something.. or give an error. I have no attachments, and notes are extremely important to me.
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I am trying to sync my Address Book and my Google Contacts with each other. I followed the guide on Google to import contacts using the application "A to G" but that doesn't include photos, which are a big part of why I wanted to do it.
I have in the past synced my address book with my facebook so that has a photo for each of my friends (their profile pics at the time) and since I have deleted my facebook account for privacy reasons.
I just tried to export a single contact in either 2.1 or 3.0 format, and neither imported correctly.
On looking it up online, I see one version had an option to sync with Google dynamically, but I don't see it in the preferences area - there is an option for Exchange, Yahoo, MobileMe but no Google - also I don't know if that will work with my Google Apps so cleanly.

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What's the story with syncing Address Book with Google Contacts?
I set it up once, but since then it has not been able to syncronise changes made to either AB or GC (nb. even after clicking the sync button).
Is there a trick to maintaining syncronisation???

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How do I transfer my imac address book to icloud

My contact book on my iMac has not transferred to iCloud. The iCloud setting on my computer
has both the contacts and calendar checked. How do I transfer the computer's contacts to the
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thank you for your help
My mac settings are set for iCloud so that is not working.
When I go to sign out of iCloud.com it gives me a message " Do you want to keep a copy of your iCloud contacts on this Mac? If you do not keep a copy, iCloud contacts will be removed from this Mac, but will still be available on other devices using iCloud."
The options are then:
     Delete from Mac
     Cancel
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Since my contact book on my iMac has everything including the couple of new entries through iCloud it is important to keep them. I like iCloud, if it works in that it automatically goes to the computer and my phone
without having to plug the phone in to sync which helps since we are out of town regularly.
I appreciate your efforts in helping me for I find iCloud tough to understand and get working so that not everythin is duplicated.
Jim

Why is my address book missing iCloud contacts?

Today I decided to move my personal contacts to iCloud. I wanted to do it all nice and clean. These are the steps I took:
I exported my personal contacts from Outlook into a vcf file.
I logged into iCloud.com and imported the vcf file to get all my contacts on iCloud. It worked.
I deleted the old contacts I still had in Address Book "on my Mac" to start with a blank slate.
I added my iCloud account in Address Book.
In the end, the sync worked only partially. Less than half of the contacts that are on iCloud got downloaded to my Address Book (48 out of 112).
Ok, long breath. My spider sense told me it was just a bug. This is what I've done so far to try to fix my problem:
I have unchecked and rechecked "Contacts" under System Preferences > iCloud. When prompted, I chose to delete the contacts from my Mac.
I have deleted all the contents under User > Library > Application Support > AddressBook.
I have restarted Sync Services in the Terminal with the command/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync.pl full
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Update: So I fixed it, although very tediously and without really knowing what was wrong.
I realized that once I edited a missing contact on my iPhone, Address Book would fetch it correctly. So what I ended up doing was making a small edit twice (e.g. deleting a letter from the contact's name, saving, adding it back again, and saving again) on my iPhone for all of those missing contacts.
My contacts are now completely in sync and I can sleep peacefully at night.

Syncing Google Gmail Contacts with Address Book and iPhone Contacts

Can anyone recommend a good way to sync Google Gmail Contacts with the Address Book on the Mac and with Contacts on the iPhone?
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Data in my iMac address book and iCloud contacts do not match.

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