Sync iCloud to Mac's Address Book

I have contacts in iCloud that I don't see on my mac's address book, how can i get them?

You should get Address Book/Contacts syncing when you sign into System Preferences>iCloud and enable Contacts in the checklist there. When you first do this, all your contacts in Address Book should be moved to the iCloud server and read from there by the application. Any contacts listed under 'On My Mac' won't sync to iCloud, but all contacts in iCloud should show as they aren't actually being synced but read off the server.
If you are having trouble with this I would suggest signing out in System Preferences>iCloud and signing back in again - your data will disappear from your Mac when you sign out but will re-appear when you sign back in.

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    Message was edited by: Saurabh Garg

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