Frustrating question about icloud contact syncing

I have several macs and an iphone. I have them all (well, the ones running new enough software...) syncing contacts via icloud.
It works. Except sometimes when in-explicitly, it does not. For example, i have a contact i updated, and while others updated on other devices, this did not. I checked icloud settings on all devices - correct.
Finally i saw a little grey list that said "on my mac" and "icloud". When i clicked on them, voila, they were different. Ok, edited the icloud one, and it suddenly updated (duh). But that's inconvenient. How did this happen? I cant manually edit all 2500 cards....
Any takers?
TIA,
Grant

Try exporting the contacts from On My Mac and then import them into iCloud. You can then check for duplicates and retain the correct contact information.
Contacts – Import/Export
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Both Address Book and Calendar now have seperate, (almost) duplicate sets of entries, titled "On my Mac" and "ICloud". Making an entry in one place does not necessarily mean that it will show up in the other.
I want to keep a local copy of everything on all my devices, and I want them all to be the same.
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I have never had this problem with my old Android phone and my Google account!
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