Issues with 10.9 synchronising Yahoo! mail

Question

I'm not sure if others are experiencing this with the upgrade, but it seems I am unable to sync contacts using Yahoo mail and Mac OS X 10.9.
Even after re-moving my Yahoo accounts completely as well as any other accounts using the Address Book application, deleting both the following two files below:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
All other sync services, namely Calendar and Mail seem to not have any connectivity issues.
The following error keeps on showing up in Console:
25/10/2013 22:35:15.425 Contacts[603]: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -_handleAddsOrModifies:https://yahoo_username%[email protected]/dav/yahoo_usernam e%40yahoo.co.uk/Contacts///yahoo_username%[email protected]/dav/yahoo_username%40yahoo.co.uk/Contacts/ Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=401 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 401.)" UserInfo=0x60800007efc0 {CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x6080002603c0 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{type = immutable dict, count = 9,
entries =>
          0 : X-Cache = <CFString 0x61800027f000 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "MISS from cardfe006.cal.ne1.yahoo.com"}
          1 : Content-Type = <CFString 0x6180002563e0 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "text/plain; charset=utf-8"}
          2 : Connection = <CFString 0x618000038740 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "keep-alive"}
          3 : Server = <CFString 0x618000037ea0 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "YTS/1.19.11"}
          4 : Age = <CFString 0x7fff7a2edd90 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "1"}
          5 : P3P = <CFString 0x6180001d7bb0 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "policyref="http://info.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE LOC GOV""}
          6 : Date = <CFString 0x6180002494e0 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:35:15 GMT"}
          9 : Www-Authenticate = <CFString 0x618000249120 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "BASIC realm="Zimbra""}
          12 : Transfer-Encoding = <CFString 0x7fff79b6de00 [0x7fff7a309eb0]>{contents = "Identity"}
Please note that I have replaced my actual username in the log extract above to keep my identity private, however yahoo_username = my Yahoo ID
Address Book / Contacts keeps on asking me to enter my password. Interestingly to test that everything was OK on the Yahoo side, I have reset my password and confirm that the Address Book / Contact sync is working fine with all my iOS devices which it fortunately is.
Does anyone out there have any good ideas on how to fix this?

Answer 1

I am experiencing the same issue with a new late 2013 Macbook Pro.   I have tried all of the same steps as iphone_traveller.
Mail and Cal will sync with Yahoo, but not Contacts.
[CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -getPrincipalInfo:[_controller principalPropertiesAtURL:https://user%[email protected]/principals/users/user%40yahoo .com///user%[email protected]/principals/users/user%40yahoo.com/] Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=401 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 401.)" UserInfo=0x6000006678c0 {CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x600000674d00 [0x7fff785cfeb0]>{type = immutable dict, count = 10,
[CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -_handleAddsOrModifies:https://user%[email protected]/dav/user%40yahoo.com/Contacts ///user%[email protected]/dav/user%40yahoo.com/Contacts/ Error Domain=CoreDAVErrorDomain Code=3 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVErrorDomain error 3.)"
AddressBookSourceSync[585]: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -_handleAddsOrModifies:https://user%[email protected]/dav/user%40yahoo.com/Contacts ///user%[email protected]/dav/user%40yahoo.com/Contacts/ Error Domain=CoreDAVErrorDomain Code=3 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVErrorDomain error 3.)"
Has anyone found a solution to this problem?