glengarry6
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Q: sync iPod with mac icloud  contacts

When apple switch to iCloud for my contacts on my laptop, no my ipod classic doesn't recognize the icloud address listed.

Says the address book is empty.

MacBook

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 12:21 PM

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Q: sync iPod with mac icloud  contacts

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  • by planb77,Helpful

    planb77 planb77 Sep 21, 2012 9:11 AM in response to glengarry6
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    Sep 21, 2012 9:11 AM in response to glengarry6

    That's because once you have Contacts turned on for iCloud, they aren't stored locally on your Mac anymore but instead or loaded from the cloud. So your iPod Classic and iTunes see an empty Address Book.

     

    A work around is to export all of your contacts out of Address Book as vCards and them copy these vCards into your iPod's Contacts folder.  You'll need to have the Enable Disk Use option ticked from under the iPod's Summary tab in order to browse out to the iPod's Contacts folder via the Finder.

    Using your iPod as a storage drive

     

    That's the only "solution" I have been able to use to get contacts to sync/appear on older iPod models.

     

    B-rock

  • by glengarry6,

    glengarry6 glengarry6 Sep 21, 2012 4:49 PM in response to glengarry6
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    Sep 21, 2012 4:49 PM in response to glengarry6

    Thanks. This does work.However I had changed quite a few contacts.

     

    So I deactivated my iCloud contacts on my Mac, on the system preferences. This then downloaded the contactz to the Mac. Then plugged the iPod in and checked sync Contacts.  That did the trick.

     

    Hope this might help you.

  • by planb77,

    planb77 planb77 Sep 22, 2012 7:15 AM in response to glengarry6
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    Sep 22, 2012 7:15 AM in response to glengarry6

    Actually, I had done the same thing a while back after running into the same problem.  Sorry I that I didn't think of it sooner!

     

    Glad to hear you managed to figure it out though.

     

    B-rock