ISync / MobileMe Sync added 18.000 blank contacts in Contacts app !

... and this keeps syncing with all my computers. This becomes a **** and I disabled the synchronization of course, but how can I solve this ? Where does this bug come from ? Anyone else with the same problem out here ? Many thanks for your help !

If you are syncing between computers, then it wasn't iSync.
iSync is only for syncing contacts and calendars to non-Apple mobile phones via a local USB or Bluetooth connection. It does not sync anything between computers.
The *MobileMe Sync* forums start here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=116
Incidentally, your signature say's you are running Mac OS X 10.3.x - the minimum requirements for MobileMe are Mac OS X 10.5.8

Similar Messages

IPhone 4 sync problems - adds 60,000 blank contacts and calendar hangs

Since the beginning of this week my iPhone 4 has stopped syncing properly. It adds 60,000 blank contacts to my computer (which take hours to delete) and then completely hangs when it gets to the calendar sync. I left it syncing overnight and it was still at exactly the same point when I came back to it this morning.
Does anyone else have this problem? And how do I solve it?
I can't find any mention of it on the Internet.
I have an iPhone 4 with the latest version of iOS, a late-2008 aluminium unibody MacBook with 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, and I'm running (stupidly, I suspect) Outlook 2011 SP1.
This is driving me insane. Please help.
Also, does anyone know how to get support from Apple? Their support pages are the most confusing things I have ever seen in my life.
Thank you.

Me too. Think it is since 6.1.3.
Interesting other quirk is that as well as NOT syncing my calendar, it also unticks my calendar from pc on the iphone.
When ii retick it, i get the calendar back, but as it was before the sync, ie, it does not have the bnew events from my pc in it.
This is a 2 way problem.
New events on my iphone wont sync to my pc, and new events on my pc wont sync to my iphone.

Some problems with Contacts app and Apple iCloud CardDAV sync

Hi all,
I've managed to get my iCloud Contacts to sync with Playbook 2.0 Contacts app using the CardDAV account.
So far, so good, but I'd like to report many small annoyances which make me feel sad.
1. No clear separation between the accounts. I have the Contacts from two of my Gmail accounts and now from iCloud. There is NO WAY to view just one account, one must see all of them.
The Messages app is clearly better for separate different accounts.
2. The sort options are poor. I can sort by First or Last Name, but the presentation is still First Name followed by Last Name. I like the Last Name first. And the sort reverts all the time to First Name. VERY ANNOYING!!!
3. Related to item #1, no possibility to indicate when the new contact will be created. I presume it will be created on my Gmail account, because it's my primary account, but no mention about it.
4. Some fields are missing. I presume it's just the limiation of the Contacts app. For example, the Spouse field syncs, but not the Father, Mother or Child fields.
5. The Groups are synced as empty Contacts with the Name = Group Name.
6. No advanced sync options, like iCloud -> Playbook only to avoid to screw up my whole Address Book.
Hope all those annoyances will disappear with time. I understand that some problems with Google Contacts sync are due to Exchange limitations, but I hope full CardDAV support will be added soon.

I will figure out to to use Mail, Contacts and Calendar in best possible conditions, don't worry. I use them all the time, so for me it's a vital question, overwise I just sell the Playbook.
So far, Contacts suck because of the limitations enumerated in my first post, Messages suck because of the impossibility to select multiple messages at once and Calendar sucks because it doesn't support the Floating Time Zone.
All iCal users that use and abse this feature understand me

Contacts app

I almost never look thru these apple support communities, so if this is in the wrong forum, MODS please move this to the appropriate thread.
I have been looking for a contact app that works a lot like the stock iphone contact app. These are my requirements for the app i'm looking for.
1. Does NOT require syncing with the stock iphone contact app (i want to build a separate business contact list)
2. Does NOT require logging in to access the contact list
3. Does NOT require registering or logging into facebook or some other social media
4. Allows subtracting, adding and editing on the iphone.
5. Does NOT require cloud or internet access to use the app
6. Free or relatively cheap. Not looking to download an expensive app, just to find out it won't do what i need and i'm out $5, $10.
Basically much like the iphone stock contact app, but i want a totally separate database that does not communicate at all with the stock contact app.
I've tried ...
Project Reno
Tact
Tacts
Divide
Groups
Contacts+
icontacts+
igroup contacts+
smartr contacts
icontacts pro
cobook
group contacts
simpler
evernote
evernote hello
brewster
A2Z contacts
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I can't possibly be the only one on the planet who has this request for a simple contacts app that doesn't pull from the stock contacts app.

this should be addressed in the next OS update coming out this month
Click here to Backup the data on your BlackBerry Device! It's important, and FREE!
Click "Accept as Solution" if your problem is solved. To give thanks, click thumbs up
Click to search the Knowledge Base at BTSC and click to Read The Fabulous Manuals
BESAdmin's, please make a signature with your BES environment info.
SIM Free BlackBerry Unlocking FAQ
Follow me on Twitter @knottyrope
Want to thank me? Buy my KnottyRope App here
BES 12 and BES 5.0.4 with Exchange 2010 and SQL 2012 Hyper V

Web Part Error From build-in "Contacts" App

My SP 2013 Foundations has been functioning normally for the past few months until this week. I added the built-in "Contacts" app back when the site was built. This week for some reason when I go to click "Add", I receive the following
error:
"Web Part Error: A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. The type could not be found or it is not registered as safe. Correlation ID: f590159c-dcb7-a0f5-9dc9-76bb9b18c79e."
I can click "edit" on that list and make changes fine.
Attempted to Google this one but for the most part my search has turned up nothing. This error seems to be experienced most times by individuals who built their own custom web parts and did not add Safe Controls to the web.config file. How could I get an
error like this with the default/built-in app?
I don't see anything helpful in the logs ( %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles ) as it just shows the point where I get the error, without displaying any more info: 2013-04-26 14:55:03 192.168.0.67 GET /Lists/Company+Directory/Contact/newifs.aspx
If you need any more information, please let me know! Thanks

Went to the log folder here:
I can see this in the log files when I try to click "New":
04/30/2013 13:28:21.87 w3wp.exe (0x1D70) 0x200C SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly High Leaving Monitored Scope (PostResolveRequestCacheHandler). Execution Time=28.0750765809621 0be6169c-bc0c-a0f5-9dc9-70ab1e3484cc
04/30/2013 13:28:21.88 w3wp.exe (0x1D70) 0x200C SharePoint Foundation Web Parts ajpj6 High UnsafeControlException: A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. The type could not be found or it is not registered as safe. 0be6169c-bc0c-a0f5-9dc9-70ab1e3484cc
04/30/2013 13:28:21.88 w3wp.exe (0x1D70) 0x200C SharePoint Foundation General ajlz0 High Getting Error Message for Exception Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SafeControls+UnsafeControlException: A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be
displayed or imported. The type could not be found or it is not registered as safe. at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SafeControls.GetTypeFromGuid(Boolean isAppWeb, Guid guid, Guid solutionId, Nullable`1 solutionWebId, String assemblyFullName, String
typeFullName, Boolean throwIfNotSafe) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.CreateWebPartsFromRowSetData(Boolean onlyInitializeClosedWebParts) 0be6169c-bc0c-a0f5-9dc9-70ab1e3484cc
04/30/2013 13:28:21.88 w3wp.exe (0x1D70) 0x200C SharePoint Foundation Web Parts 7935 Information http://(redacted)/Lists/Company Directory/Contact/newifs.aspx - An unexpected error has been encountered in this Web Part. Error: A Web Part or Web Form Control
on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. The type could not be found or it is not registered as safe. 0be6169c-bc0c-a0f5-9dc9-70ab1e3484cc
04/30/2013 13:28:21.92 w3wp.exe (0x1D70) 0x200C SharePoint Foundation Monitoring nasq Medium Entering monitored scope (Render Ribbon.). Parent SharePointForm Control Render 0be6169c-bc0c-a0f5-9dc9-70ab1e3484cc
04/30/2013 13:28:21.92 w3wp.exe (0x1D70) 0x200C SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly Medium Leaving Monitored Scope (Render Ribbon.). Execution Time=4.37541642862431 0be6169c-bc0c-a0f5-9dc9-70ab1e3484cc
04/30/2013 13:28:21.93 w3wp.exe (0x1D70) 0x200C SharePoint Server Search Query dn4s High FetchDataFromURL start at(outside if): 1 param: start 0be6169c-bc0c-a0f5-9dc9-70ab1e3484cc

ISync not syncing all contacts to Moto Razr V3i

Hi,
I have a Motorola Razr V3i that I'd like to sync with my Mac address book. I'm running Leopard 10.5.1. I keep the Address Book as the reference for all my contacts. When I connect my Razr to the Mac, I want to replace all the contacts on the phone with the entries in the Address Book. I have set options in iSync to sync all contacts with phone numbers. I am facing two problems with this:
1) During the sync, the application tries to replace data on my Mac with data from the phone. Is there an option that I can set by which the information on the Mac is never overwritten by the information from the phone? I want information to go one way all time - from my Mac to the phone.
2) After the sync, I discovered that not all the contacts had been imported. A few random contacts are not transferred from the Mac to the phone. I thought that this might have something to do with the fact that the phone used to be synced to my earlier install of Tiger. So I did a "master clear" and a "master reset" on the phone. But even after doing that, some of the contacts (different ones this time) were not synced. And due to the problem described in #1, iSync tried to replace all my existing contacts on the Mac with blank information on the phone.
What's the point of iSync if I have to check whether all contacts have been imported, and manually enter the ones left out. I checked for a software update on the phone, but there was none available.
I'd be happy to provide additional information to get this problem fixed.
Thanks,
Saurabh

I am having the same problem with Leopard 10.5.1 Isync and my razor V3 from Cingular. In addition the contacts in my address book are duplicated after syncing with my phone. Basically after using Isync my address book gets doubled and cluttered with names and no phone numbers, the data gets completly screwed up. Whats going on?

Double Contacts from MobileMe syncing

I have an original iPhone running iPhone software 3.0.1.
Whenever I sync my contacts via MobileMe (not just syncing through iTunes) I get double contacts on my phone.
Things that I have already tried...
1) Checked for duplicates in Address Book and merged any duplicates
2) MobileMe advanced setting to replace MobileMe data from Computer data
3) Checked MobileMe settings on iPhone and turned off and back on the "Contacts" setting (deleted all existing contacts from phone and did not merge phone with address book.)
4) Restored iPhone as New Phone and synced from MobileMe again
I've seen two other posts on the forum that address this, but none of it has worked.

I had the same "double contacts" issue and followed the steps on the support article referenced above by Jason L. It took care of the problem for me!
This is what you need to do:
1) On iTunes, plug the iphone and allow it to sync, then make sure the "Sync Address Book Contacts" under the "info" Tab is disabled. (If it was enabled, un-check that option and sink again manually, so that the new setting takes place).
2) On iphone, Choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then tap your MobileMe account, and slide Contacts to Off.
3)Select "Delete from My iPhone/iPod touch."
This will clear one of the duplicate lists, and now you will only have one set of contacts, which for the time being will be stored only in your iphone. It might take more than a few seconds depending on the size of your contact list.
Now you need to re-enable syncing and allow your iphone contacts to merge with those on your MobileMe account. Merging is the command that will allow you to have a single set on contacts in sync between the iphone and address book. I saw on your earlier post that you were reluctant to do this, but there is no way around it:
4) On the iPhone, Choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then tap your account to slide the Contacts Sync option back on.
5) When prompted, select Merge with MobileMe or Microsoft Exchange.
Done!
The whole thing is described in more detail here (reposting Jason L.'s link): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3677

Adding Duplicates or Altering Contacts from MobileMe to Outlook on My PC

Outlook is used as my primary contact manager with MobileMe. Shortly after I purchased my IPad, the following message came up from MobileMe:
"Synching with "MobileMe" will change more than 25% of your contacts (Add 1182/Delete 0/Modify 1175"
This was trying to duplicate and/or modify contacts in Outlook from MobileMe which was a no no! I went to the Apple Store, a support person kindly reset and checked everything and it was working fine. We reset the notification status in MobileMe to any changes and it came up again to say:
""Synching with "MobileMe" will change more than 0% of your contacts (Add 13/Delete 0/Modify 1"
Again, a no no, just in lesser numbers since the notification threshold was set to any changes. I then turned off my sync with contacts button on my IPad
I am now receiving a new message that says,
"Register this computer in the Advanced option under the synch tab in the MobileMe Preferences on this computer.
How can I prevent MobileMe from trying to alter my contacts in Outlook? I also need help getting it all reset on my Ipad.
Thanks

In Outlook export the contacts as vCard files and then it just a matter of opening Address book and either importing them or you can drag them into the app.
It's a pretty simple process.
Roger

(iOS 7.1.1) Google Contacts no longer sync with my contacts app

Hello everyone. So recently I noticed that my Google Contacts no longer sync with my Contacts app, and this is really upsetting as I'm a person who needs to have updated contacts and both my phone, as well as a backup on my Gmail account, as I am both a Google and Apple user.
I am using an iPhone 5S, on 7.1.1.
My Settings has my Gmail account signed in, and has the "Contacts" switch turned on. I deleted the account, and re entered it, and I am still not seeing any activities of the Google Contacts and Contacts app syncing.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, so I would really appreciate it if someone could give me some ideas as to what might be going on. I'm real tech savvy but I have no idea what caused my contacts to stop syncing. My Google Calendar events sync just fine, so that's even more confusing.

Okay.. it won't let me go back and edit my earlier postings however... the problem is solved. I went in and Deleted ANY resource that iSync could get it's hands on that it kept in the iSync folder and the SyncServices Folder in the Libray Folder under Users. I actually moved the contents for those folders to a different volume. I then deleted the resources for Palm Desktop making it create a new user account. The Next time I opened iSync.. It went crazy trying to find resources.. it opened Calendar for me and I never saw it open address book but I saw that it was reading Addresses. I then Opened iTunes next and noticed that my full contacts from my address book were put back on my iPod!
Shew!!! one down and one to go. I prayed and added my palm device to iSync. Then I synced and got conflict popups for my Addresses and Calendars asking me how to reconcile ( I was only getting those for the Calendars earlier). I then re-synced and checked my Palm and All of my contacts were in the Treo 650! I then changed a few entries and synced again for a few tests and it appears to be fixed.
This is the problem with gradual upgrades as opposed to clean installs when you update your OS. It's just that OS X doesn't give you that option. in the Pre OS X days I would never just upgrade my OS. I would also Re-Format and Re-install. That's always been my preference.

MobileMe sync suddenly failing

MobileMe synced between all of my devices (iPhone, Macbook Pro, iMac and iPad) perfectly fine until yesterday, when my iPad decided to give up.
First of all it was the Safari Bookmarks that no longer updated. I tried the tricks on here of disabling/deleting the account then enabling it again, no luck.
I completely removed my MobileMe account from my iPad and then entered my details in again. Now absolutely nothing would sync 'over the air'. Even after a lengthy wait.
I then tried a restore from backup. Again, no luck.
Finally I did a fresh restore of my iPad software. I managed to get Bookmarks and Calendar working okay, but now I have to sync Address Book manually.
It's all very strange and happened after things have been working fine for months. I'm up to date on all the software and haven't installed any new Apps over the last few days.
Probably not much anyone can do now, just checking in to see if anyone else had experienced something similar over the last few days?

The short answer is yes, people are having problems today with MobileMe. I was just told by an Apple support guy that the system has been problematic all day. But of course, they don't tell anybody that on the MobileMe website.
I just spent a torturous 10 hours+ trying to set up and enable MobileMe on my ipad and iphone. It was a total, unmitigated disaster despite valiant efforts by the tech (and several hours on the phone) to help me.
(Incidentally, there's no support phone number for MobileMe and even the other Apple techs can't call them. The MobileMe "chat line" wasn't even allowing me to "link" with it, whatever that means.)
Nothing we tried worked. At one point MM completely wiped all my contacts off my iPad. At the same time, it duplicated every single contact in my MM web account. So -- NO contacts on my iPad, DOUBLE contacts at me.com.
Later, it wiped out my iCal from my iPad. Completely gone; it was totally blank. I had to reload it from my Mac (after DELETING the mobileme account).
Now, I'm still getting horrible, horrible "ghost" effects even though I have mobileme turned completely off. I just re-synced my iPhone with iTunes and it duplicated every single calendar entry. Every. Single. One.
I'm ready to kill myself.
Apple should be ashamed to be selling such a wonky product. And to not offer phone support -- shame on you, MobileMe -- whoever, and wherever, you are.

I got the new iPhone5 back in Dec, I hooked it up to my computer for the 1st time this wk. It deleted all new data added since Dec (notes,contacts,texts,pics, info in apps) and reverted back to all my old data. How can I retrieve all the lost data??

I got the new iPhone5 back in Dec, I hooked it up to my computer for the 1st time this wk. It deleted all new data added since Dec (notes,contacts,texts,pics, info added to apps) and reverted back to all my old data (literally uploaded all of my old texts and 1400 old pics and deleted anything new). How can I retrieve all the lost data?? Please help!!

SkyDaughter29 wrote:
My current situation: I have soooo many texts on my iphone and I haven't deleted many because I need the information contained in them for future reference and for legal purposes. I would really like to find a means and way to save them other than on the phone itself. I've done searches for various apps yet I'm not finding what I think I would need. It appears Apple does not sync the texts between the iphone and my MacBook Pro.
Try the computer apps PhoneView (Mac) or TouchCopy (Mac & PC):
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php
Best of luck.

Can't sync Palm with Mac through iSync, only syncs with Palm Desktop

I have an older Palm Tungsten T3 that I use basically only to run a medical application that I need at work (ePocrates, which has its own conduit and auto-updates itself with hotsyncs). I haven't tried to sync it to my Mac for a long time. I use iCal for my calendaring needs, sync it with my iPod, and ignore the old stuff that's on the Palm, which I hardly ever even sync.
Today I had to reinstall the Epocrates software, and decided while I was at it I'd try to get the Palm syncing with the Mac (iCal, contacts, etc) again because it would be nice for it to show the same calendar data.
I reinstalled the newest version of Palm Desktop from scratch. Installed the ePocrates software on top of it. I have iSync 2.4. My Palm was not listed as a device initially. I chose "Enable Palm OS Syncing" from the menu; iSync then went through a series of steps in which it disabled several conduits (presumably to no longer sync with the Palm Desktop), then told me to enable the iSync Palm conduit through the HotSync manager, which I did.
I now show the Palm as a device on iSync, but it has a yellow caution icon over it and I'm not sure why. Clicking on it shows an options dialog. I chose for the first sync I wanted to erase everything on the device and then sync with the Mac. My syncs appear to work, but when the data is checked it seems to sync only with Palm Desktop. The old junky data on the Palm was not erased as requested. Newer calendar events and contacts from my Mac have not made it to the Palm. The ePocrates auto update conduit is working fine but that's the only part that is.
Any idea what's incompatible, or what I'm doing wrong here?

I have The Missing Sync and used it to sync my palm TX. I am now in the process of trying to get iCal going properly again. No longer have any calender views in iCal and the week views don't show until I have opened a month view and then go back to the week view. Very bizzare. Also have a heap of untitled calendar views in the drop down list option when looking at the info on any event - these calendar views are not accessible anywhere else though.
I'm not sure if it is Missing Sync or something I did wrong at present. Will also throw the problem to the Missing Sync people to see what they say. Will let you know. It seemed to work really well without needing the palm desktop!

How do I stop iSync from syncing address cards with no telephone mnumber ?

I sync my Nokia to my Mac using iSync 2.3. I used a smart group made from email domain names to sync with my phone. IN this group are a number of address cards with no telephone numbers. How can I either delete them automatically, or disallow them from being synced to my phone ?

First, make sure that iSync isn't running.
Then, choose "Go > Go to Folder..." in the Finder and copy and paste the following into the dialog box that appears:
/Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/P lugIns/Motorola-K1.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/
A window will open. Now, open the "PhoneConduit.plist" file in that window into TextEdit.
Do a search for "charsToKeep"
In the line below the one it finds it should read:
<string>0123456789+#*</string>
change it to:
<string>0123456789+#*p,</string>
(adding in the p and , characters) and save the file.
Quit and the reload iSync and sync. It will no longer strip the p and comma characters.
Apple obviously doesn't know that those characters can be accepted by the phone.

Problems with mobileme syncing ...

Hi everyone. I'm having massive problems with mobileme sync with my iphone, my macbook and MacPC G5. Essentially I want the iphone contacts and calender data to overwrite anything on laptop and pc but I keep getting message that contacts couldn't be synced due to inconsistent data. Despite me overriding it. I'm not sure how I go about confirming that the computers data is valid and actually whether I want to because its the iphone data I want. Then despite saying its synced calenders its not updating on my macbook or PC ... any suggestions gratefully received. Its doing my head in! Oh I'm on Leopard OS.

Hi Chris, Thanks for the advice, I haven't tried that yet. Will do so and pray that it will work. This however doesn't solve the problem of appointments I'm putting on my iphone not updating on PC and laptop - they do however update on mobile me cloud! Any advice greatly appreciated!

Can I sync Outlook 2011 with Apple contacts in the latest Mavericks like I used to do in OSX 10.8.5?

Can I sync Outlook 2011 with Apple contacts in the latest Mavericks like I used to do in OSX 10.8.5?

I might suggest you send links to download the attachments via DropBox or other similar source rather than include in an email.
Example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqyrdv4zblhjt7o/ShowLibraryMavericks.png
Have you looked at adding the attachements at the end of the message. Under Edit in the Mail Menu bar select Attachments.
Attachment Tamer might be worth a look but attachements are always going to be in the body part of the message.
http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer

ISync / MobileMe Sync added 18.000 blank contacts in Contacts app !

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for