Updating Contact info from Mail not displaying in Address Book

So I was updating an existing contact from Mail using the data detector feature. Address Book was already running in background. I clicked on the data detector and said "update existing contact". I pick the contact that I want to update. When I go to address book to see if the contact was updated, it "appears" that it hadn't updated. However, if I exit address book and restart the data does appear. So it get's in the database but doesn't display until exit and restart.

After several days of trying, i finally seem to have it working. What i ended up doing was exporting my backing up my addresses on another computer that still had Snow Leopard on it. I exported both as .abbu and vCards. I was then able to get the vCards into iCloud.
Problem was, i could not get them to import into Contacts in Mavericks. I could not even add the iCloud account to contacts. It would let me sign in and choose contacts, but iCloud never showed up in the accounts nor did the contacts show up in Contacts.
After trying repairing permissions and resetting the PRAM to no avail, it occured to me to delete the Address Book folder from /Library/Application Support
Once that folder was gone, i was able to add iCloud to the accounts and import the .abbu file from Address Book.
So if you did not export your Address Book contacts before updating, you will need a second computer that is still running Snow Leopard to export the contacts. Then you can delete the Address Book folder from the Library and you should then be able to import the contacts into Contacts on Mavericks.
Hope this helps.

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After several days of trying, i finally seem to have it working. What i ended up doing was exporting my backing up my addresses on another computer that still had Snow Leopard on it. I exported both as .abbu and vCards. I was then able to get the vCards into iCloud.
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After trying repairing permissions and resetting the PRAM to no avail, it occured to me to delete the Address Book folder from /Library/Application Support
Once that folder was gone, i was able to add iCloud to the accounts and import the .abbu file from Address Book.
So if you did not export your Address Book contacts before updating, you will need a second computer that is still running Snow Leopard to export the contacts. Then you can delete the Address Book folder from the Library and you should then be able to import the contacts into Contacts on Mavericks.
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My Blackberry 8900 will not display my address book. The addresses are there and on the sim card, but I can not get them to be displayed on the phone. I have tried copying them but does not seem to work. What do I do. Thanks in advance for all your help.
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Are the contacts in your BlackBerry Address Book AND on your SIM card?
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My Mail and Address Book do not appear to be talking very well....
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There's something wrong with either your Mail app or your Address Book. I'm betting on the Address Book.
See my advice here: After Lion upgrade, my addressbook does not work++
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I want to have one default ringtone for calls from people who are not in my address book. I would also have a distinct ( different) ringtone for those people IN my address book.
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I don't remember when this first started happening - I know it used to work on my PowerBook. I got my new Mac and set up Mail with a series of simple rules. I have five main accounts (which I have colour coded), and what I want is: if the sender is not in my address book, move to trash and colour the appropriate colour. Simple enough - I have set up five rules; one for each account.
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