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I setup my new iMac (purchased 14 May 2014) with a whole bunch of FaceTime contacts.   These are there in my FaceTime pane.
I bought an iPadAir last week and also have an iPhone.
On both these Apple devices I also entered some FaceTime contact data, tried both out and they worked just fine; that is they talked to each other and other people.
As this information was slightly different on all three devices, I wanted them to automatically follow what I have on my iMac, so I plugged them both in to the iMac.
I then (separately) did a Sync of both devices from iTunes, and all the data for FaceTime in both cases instead of being updated and streamlined/synchronised with my iMac has been wiped.
Surely there must be a way of doing this automatically rather than have to enter and re-enter all the data again and again each time I do a Sync.
Note: when I did the Sync the music I added today went where it should, so there's no problem with connections, etc.
On the Info page I've clicked on "Sync Contacts" which would seem to be what was necessary.
Now when I try to Sync either of these devices, the Sync process goes on and on and never stops.   This is a real problem, and I can't see any way of stopping it other than doing a Force Quit of iTunes - which is pretty useless as I will obviously want to Sync these and my other Apple devices again in the future.
As a result of this neither of these devices will now Sync with my iMac, other than locking themselves into a cintinuous loop.
Does anyone have any idea how to solve this.   As I've just bought both the iMac and the iPadAir I could contact Apple direct, but I thought I'd try here first.

Carolyn,
Yes, iCloud is enabled on the iMac. However, .........
I've just been looking at the settings on my iPad and iPhone; neither had Settings / iCloud / Contacts enabled.
Now that I've enabled Settings / iCloud / Contacts on both the iPhone and the iPad, my Contacts data from the iMac has streamed to both my Contacts and FaceTime on both the iPad and iPhone
Oddly, I have never entered anything in my Contacts app on the iMac; all the data that appeared there (as if by magic!) came from what I'd entered in FaceTime.
I've just done a Sync from iTunes to my iPad and iPhone and it worked quickly and smoothly.
It looks like this is an iCloud issue on both the portable devices - as a rule I don't enable BlueTooth, roaming or suchlike on my iPhone, and I didn't set up the iPad any differently..
FaceTime only worked before because I'd manually entered some of the same contact data in FaceTime on both the iPad and iPhone, and then connected to other Mac users to try out FaceTime. It would seem that when I did a Sync on both these portable devices, and set iTunes / Info to apply Contact information, because iCloud wasn't enabled, it just wiped the data on both the iPad and iPhone.
This seems to be a fix, so thanks for your time and questio; I hope my attempt at an explanation might help others not make the same mistakes I did.
Regards
Chris

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