Addressbooksync what is it?

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Addressbooksync what is it?

Dear Friends,
I am suffering from an excessive number of spinning beachballs. I checked the Activity Monitor and saw two processses that seem to run when nothing is going on, sporadically eating up large amounts of CPU.
The culprits are Addressbooksync and SyncServer. They say the loginwindow is the parent process? I don't use Mail or Addressbook, nor do I sync anything.
I can quit them manually without causing any trouble, but they reappear at the next startup. Does anyone know what
they do?are they necessary? if not can I shut them down permanently?

I have removed all my login items. I have no .mac account, I have no devices which I sync, blackberry, iPod,etc. My addressbook had 24000 items, I didn't put them in. I tossed my Addressbook Application Support files. I restarted and now there are 13 items all 'apple computer'

Thanks for your help.

thanks for your help,

G4 titanium powerbook 1 gig, Mac OS X (10.4.10), connected to a 250G external firewire drive

Posted on Oct 7, 2007 1:27 PM

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Answer 1

Frankns

Level 1

59 points

Nov 8, 2007 9:57 AM in response to Walter Lieberman

You might try re-setting you Sync history.

I was experiencing similar behavior, but NOT seeing multiple Apple Computer entries.

I first turned off "Enable syncing on this computer" in iSync's preferences and then reset sync history. Addressbooksync is no longer running.

Cheers

Leopard 10.5
MBP 2.4 2GB

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Answer 2

bneely

Level 5

5,255 points

Nov 10, 2007 10:02 AM in response to Walter Lieberman

AddressBookSync communicates with your system's Sync Services database (and the SyncServer process) to update the sync database. This is done even if you are not syncing with any other servers or devices.

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Answer 3

Feb 7, 2008 2:09 PM in response to bneely

We have had that same issue come up with several of the workstations in our office. I believe it first started happening probably way back with OS 10.2, or maybe earlier, we honestly don't remember! We are now running Leopard and continue to have this issue. It doesn't affect all the workstations in the office, but about half of them have the problem.

One other thing I noticed is that the User>Library>Preferences>com.apple.AddressBook.plist file will become locked somehow and the Address Book preferences show the address format as 'Turkey' and the font size preference will be blank, and there will be a entry in the LDAP database settings called 'error'. I can fix all this stuff, but somehow the problem always reoccurs at some point down the road. It's pretty frustrating!

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