Number of contact cards on mac vs iCloud

Why are there 750 contact cards on my Macbook vs the 2500 cards in iCloud. If they are synced why wouldn't they be the same?

They appear not to be in sync.
On your Mac open Address Book (or Contacts if you have Mountain Lion, if you don't have Mountain Lion, tell me what you do have)
Go to the accounts page and make sure that there is an iCloud account and that it is the one you are looking at.

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HT204150 I currently have 14,181 contacts that are on my computer, which an apple tech was nice enough to show me how to transfer all my contacts from my mac 2 "iCloud " account all though when ever I log into my "iCloud" account it still only shows 13,0

I currently have 14,181 contacts that are on my computer, which an apple tech was nice enough to show me how to transfer all my contacts from my mac 2 "iCloud " account all though when ever I log into my "iCloud" account from a different web browser it still only shows 13,032. Meanwhile on my mac book pro, the "icloud" contact is still spinning like its trying to update the rest of the missing contacts. I have let the computer run for 2 days straight and still no progress. Is there a limit to how many contacts I store on "iCloud" I have upgraded to the extra 25 gigs per year. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it, because its also slowing down my mac book pro significantly causing it hard to do any other task on my computer....Any advice or help would be again greatly appreciated.

On the surface, it doesn't sound like you're reaching a limit in the number of contacts you can have.
I would first create a contacts archive (file >> export) for a backup. Then, go to system preferences >> icloud and uncheck contacts. Reboot. Return to those preferences and recheck contacts.
Also, review http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4489 just in case you have some contact cards that are reaching a different limitation.

Contacts - "On My Mac" and "iCloud" possible to sync?

Trying to sync contacts with my mac and my iOS devices through iCloud. It took me awhile to figure out what is actually happening here, even though it seems obvious now. Unfortunately I can find no way to do what I need.
Set up iCloud on iPad, iPhone, Safari on MacBook Pro, using fine. Noticed not all contacts syncing. Preferences on all devices say use iCloud, and use Mail and Contacts on all devices.
Finally noticed that on MacBook Pro Contacts, over on left page, at top left it says "All Contacts", under that "On my Mac", under that ""iCloud". Finally figured out that "On My Mac" contacts are separate from "iCloud" contacts (seems obvious). The contacts in "iCloud" are the only ones which sync with your iOS devices, and the MacBook Pro Mail program only adds contacts to "On My Mac" set. Yuck!
I can find no way to have contacts from Mail automatically add to the "iCloud" set of contacts instead of the "On My Mac" set. I cannot figure out how to get these contacts in the "On My Mac" set to sync to iCloud without some very fancy and complicated exporting, deleting, importing ALL contacts, and it is a lot easier just to type the contact info into a new card in the "iCloud" contact set, but I wish I could get iCloud to work automatically with Mail and "On My Mac" contacts, or find some setting or workaround so that I just don't even use or have the "On My Mac" contacts.
Does anyone know of some setting to allow me to use iCloud exclusively? That's why I want iCloud and Mac, to work together.
The way I often add contacts is:
In Safari, click an email link
In mail, a new email opens so I can send
click the triangle on the right end of the address in the "To" line
a box appears
scroll down to the bottom, "Show Contact Card" (this used to automatically open the address book, but Mountain Lion unfortunately added a step here)
A box appears
click upper right hand corner, "Open with Contacts"
Edit card as needed
Note: this card appears with the "All Contacts" line highlighted on the left hand side of left page
It is also in "On My Mac" set
It is NOT in "iCloud" set, therefore will not sync with iOS devices
Anyone know how to get Mail to put its created contacts into iCloud to start with?

Hi Virginia,
Try setting up your iCloud account in the Contacts preferences. Contacts>Preferences>Accounts:
Click the "+" to add your iCloud account, and when you get to this screen:
In the "Account Type" field, use the dropdown to select iCloud, then add your iCloud sign-on info.
Don't know if this will work, but my Contacts book only has "All Contacts" listed on the left-hand page - there is no "On My Mac" or "On iCloud" listed at all....
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
GB

Contact card in mac messages not showing picture

One of my contacts in Messages on Yosemite just shows the initials instead of their contact picture.
When I click on the name in the right pane in Messages, I can select "Show Contact Card".
The Contact Card also shows the initials in place of the contact image.
In the contact card, I click Open With Contacts.
The Contacts app opens and shows me the user's address book card, which shows the contact has a picture assigned.
The user in Messages is referred to by their email address *****@aol.com.
The email address and phone number for this user do not have duplicate entries in my contacts.
Other users do not have this issue.

The user had more than one instance of the same email. Apparently that confused Messages. When I removed one of them, the image showed just fine as expected.

Contacts bac to mac or iCloud?

Hello,
new iPhone user so probably this question will sound silly.
How do I get the contacts on my phone transfered either to my mac or iCloud?
If I go to APP on the iphone menu once connected to iTunes, the list of apps that can be used with "file sharing" doesn't include contacts.
I believe there is something I am missing, because this sounds not logical at all.
Thanks

MXVC wrote:
I have contact on my iphone from my work account
If that's an Exchange account, they won't. Things are designed that way, as the Exchange Server owns the data. You'll need an app to do what you want. Something like this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/contact-mover-account-sync/id582605968?mt=8

How do I stop google from deleting my contacts on my mac through iCloud?

A few weeks ago I deleted my google contacts - I never liked having them there - but now Google is insisting on syncing my contacts. I kept saying "no" but it came back, and somehow I lost all of my contacts last week. Today I restored them from Time Machine back into my address book on my mac, but now Google is saying they want to sync again. I've googled solutions and haven't found any that work with the current iCloud. I sync my iPhone, iPod touch and iPad with my MacBook (running 10.7.3) through iCloud. I only get this error on my mac. I've turned off all of my non-mail sync settings on all of my devices and still I can't get this to go away. Any ideas??

Had no idea that was there - hopefully that will fix it. Thanks! It amazes me in all of the posts on this topic, that it was never mentioned that there is a google button in preferences.
Crossing my fingers - thanks!

**Syncing Contacts ("On My Mac") to iCloud**

Hellpppp! Cannot find the answer to this question anywhere!
Mid 2009 MBP
Lots of free disk space (not that that is entireley relevant)
Nothing on iCloud so far so free space there too
OSX Lion
iCloud enabled on iPhone 5 (iOS 6) and enabled on Mac, boxes checked on both devices for 'Contacts, Calendars...'
How do I get contacts that are "On My Mac" to sync to iCloud? (Also curious to link up my calendar in iCal too, which is not syncing)
Any help or advice greatly appreciated,
Thank you

Thanks for the replies guys. Screenshots attached in response to both of your comments.
woodmeister50 - I have signed into iCloud / enabled it in Address Book already. Screenshot attached = "Example - Address Book"
pvonk - I have tried doing this (hopefully the attached shot of the window is the part of the app to which you refered me) and it doesn't work on that particular screen. Is this what you meant? Screenshot = "Contact Groups Example"
P.s. got iCal working! But contacts/"Address Book" is still a problem.

I need to sync contacts from my mac to icloud

I have more contacts on my iMac than in iCloud. How do I sync them all?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
This user tip might help you understand how accounts work with Contacts (Address Book). (25)

Lync 2013 mobile client can't see all fields in contact card

We have deployed Lync 2013 infra in our organization, now we observed, mobile Lync client users are not able to see other users mobile number on contact card rest all information is visible.
Is there any workaround or fix to resolve this issue. Appreciate quick help.

That's effectively by design (but a popular complaint). The workaround is to put the users who's mobile numbers you need in your Outlook contact list. There's another workaround related to setting the privacy relationship, but you have to coordinate
it with many people which is not too feasible.
Here are others upset about it:
http://ammarhasayen.com/2013/09/25/lync-2013-mobile-contact-card-not-showing-mobile-number/
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HT4061 My Ipad2 has a message Ipad disabled connect to itunes. The trouble is I am out of the US now and cant connect to my my home mac or any computer it is synced with. What can I do? I cant even access the serial number to contact apple. Help!

My Ipad2 has a message: Ipad disabled connect to itunes. The trouble is I am out of the US now and cant connect to my my home mac or any computer it is synced with. What can I do? I cant even access the serial number to contact apple. Help!

Call Apple anyway. If the device was ever registered with then they will have the serial # on file and can look you up by other info such as your name or phone number.
To re-enable an iPad any computer with iTunes should work. However, if your data was not backed up to iCloud you will not be able to access it until you get back to your home computer.

HT4489 The number of contacts on my Macbook,iPhone and iCloud are all different. So when i tried to import vCards from my address book on to my iCloud a message came up saying "invalid vCards"? Any ideas

The number of contacts on my Macbook,iPhone and iCloud are all different. So when i tried to import contacts which i thick are called vCards from my address book on to my iCloud through the options menu on icloud a message came up saying "invalid vCards"? Any ideas? Really want to get this sorted if i could
Cheers

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
This user tip might help you understand how accounts work with Address Book. (25)

I have Duplicate Contacts on my Mac/iCloud

Hey there..
I am just posting as I am unsure why I have duplicate entries on my contacts list. I noticed when I went to www.icloud.com that I have duplicates there too.
If I delete 1 of every contact on my Mac will it sync to iCloud and delete the contacts there too down to one of each? The reason this started is that while I was on my iPad I noticed that I had linked contacts on my contact list and both the linked ones to the cards on my iPad were on iCloud. I'd like to have only 1 copy on iCloud that feeds all my devices (iMac, MBP, iPhone 4S and iPad 2) ... is this possible? I'd guess then that there would be no unified or linked contacts, right?
Sorry if I'm not making sense but I'm concenred that I fanny about and lose my list. If someone could help that would be great.
Many thanks..
Ricky

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Resolving duplicate contacts

Why my iPhone contacts, in groups, shows "my Mac" and "iCloud"?

I had configured both my iPhone and my Mac Mini to sync with iCloud. But in both contacts, there are two main groups: The first one is "From My Mac" and the second one is "iCloud". All groups that i created (friends, family, work, etc...) appears to be a sub-group from "iCloud". It´s two different lists, but some contacts are in both lists. I want to have just one main group, iCloud, and have all my gadgets syncing with it, but I didn´t find any way to merge the contacts in just one list. What can I do?
By the way, I tried the tool to merge duplicated contacts in the Mac Mini contacts, but when I do that, appears a message telling me that can´t merge the contacts because they are in diferent groups.

I forgot to say: when I used the tool to find duplicated contacts in my Mac, it didn´t find the contacts that are in both groups.

How do I get the contacts from my mac to syn with icloud? I need to back up my phone and don't want to lose my contacts when I get a new phone.

How do I get the contacts from my mac to sync with Icloud? I need to back up my phone since I will be receiving a new one tomorrow and the icloud contacts are not the same as the ones on my mac. Help me

OS X Lion. 10.7. Your profile says your running 10.6.8, which is Snow Leopard. You need 10.7 to use iCloud with your Mac.

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Number of contact cards on mac vs iCloud

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