MobileMe, address book not syncing

Same problem with my father's Address Book. Solved it by removing the file in the AppSupport/AddBook/ folder as indicated earlier.

This resulted in AddressBook rebuilding its data file WITHOUT the corrupted groups.

A shortcut for rebuilding your Groups is as follows:

* BEFORE you trash the .abcddb file, create a folder on your Desktop
Drag each of your Groups from AB into this folder, creating a vCard of each (you CAN drag them all at once, but DON'T - you need to be able to restore them individually and if you drag them at once, a single vCard is created)

* Quit AddressBook
* Trash the offending .abcddb file
* Launch AddressBook

Repeat the following for each Group vCard you backed up:

* Drag the vCard from the Desktop into the "Name" column of AddressBook. This will import the data back into your AB. Choose to Update Existing and do so for ALL.
* Before doing anything else, Create a new Group and give it the name as that which was just imported
* Select "Last Import" in the Groups column
* Click into the Names column to activate it
* Edit > Select All to select all the recently imported Contacts
* Drag the selection into the newly created Group

Thank you!!!

I've been dealing with an address book that won't sync for months now.
This fixed it.

Thank you!!!

Hi all.
I've tried the suggestions here and spent hours poking through the data in SQLite, but can't find the offending lines of code.

I've got:

12/3/08 1:22:11 AM AddressBookManager[5017] Metadata without a record: {(
"D6A9AE08-8861-40E3-95D2-3726E2C8B935:ABPerson",
"07F20C65-6B08-4877-90C3-FBE0D31F1F2D:ABPerson",
"65EC484A-3C78-42A5-AC29-53899194F920:ABPerson",
"D811BAE3-E171-496D-BFF1-9B01612E0584:ABPerson",
"800C2DAF-969D-4ACF-B6CB-83976C2E75D7:ABPerson",
"836BE376-7558-4BB8-92FB-5283363B58AA:ABPerson",
"F4F18B68-DFF5-44E4-870A-F7BB72EBA55D:ABPerson",
"56D39FDE-C959-4121-A100-25D13476F7F4:ABPerson",
"ED95D286-1DF2-4600-A898-D38C3D2E3D09:ABPerson",
"3103386E-36F2-493F-9B14-709F5F7C69CC:ABPerson",
"8C74682E-B197-4E4A-B169-5D51694B81A8:ABPerson",
"B6328DF2-EF13-4F4C-9960-03FB7C58704E:ABPerson",
"FD6F9491-C50B-4B08-BDBC-B1F03F394795:ABPerson",
"E4961BD2-54F6-4682-93A7-7489F98C31AD:ABPerson",
"7050DD44-5921-48A2-9D09-B10251E83C24:ABPerson",
"DE60D3BB-D0F5-43C4-AC01-C1BFC172FAAA:ABPerson",
"6F0E3AFD-0EF1-42D1-AC0E-1BF236663773:ABPerson",
"FD3E2DE7-1211-40EB-9CCB-578F7F9878FA:ABPerson",
"5DC53C0C-2760-4894-B8E6-F66C346B4E0A:ABPerson",
"8E42D1D0-85C9-4B7C-BED7-872BF5147648:ABPerson",
"A7AAA55E-5FC2-4774-B888-6A9104967F44:ABPerson",
"09779C73-BACA-4845-80D6-5D8745CB632C:ABPerson",
"659F95F7-A15B-4096-B0B8-102CA5F8CD2A:ABPerson",
"6BAD590F-8334-43DB-9001-61E09B4920CD:ABPerson",
"1F361A9E-1F4C-44CD-97E3-2194DFB81B70:ABPerson",
"EBDFDB8F-03A8-49B1-837A-AFDDCBA29212:ABPerson",
"7F7950CA-3C9D-4135-9063-6B70765A6869:ABPerson",
"785039AB-C126-426D-AAC9-7324311EB185:ABPerson",
"A6780A15-FFBA-4DCB-839C-63F730F16B0F:ABPerson",
"DFBA3446-CE1C-4D0F-9B79-282697A3EF16:ABPerson",
"CCDE2673-AA2E-498E-8D5E-013B1530026E:ABPerson",
"B287116B-F980-45EA-A521-4CF27A6FB1BD:ABPerson",
"85E3DA09-6273-40D8-B2E4-2CD3EDD986C6:ABPerson",
"86BB77D0-A48D-44BC-9309-7945EE9BCA55:ABPerson",
"EEA5C0D0-2188-43F9-8B7B-DC8A3E4E9FEB:ABPerson",
"BFD2AAC3-CE57-437B-9248-7F038581BA92:ABPerson",
"EC9AEDE4-2A1D-4B4E-AE32-CFC582DE769F:ABPerson",
"E385E771-B6E5-41A1-AEB3-64E777CE4E98:ABPerson",
"F5DC5650-E584-48C1-B2AE-8A31E3A0CA9C:ABPerson",
"6A108204-F04B-4AAF-9AE3-4F82BEA1BE7B:ABPerson",
"94EFEFE4-FF99-4BF9-972E-CF55F6F9C1F1:ABPerson",
"204A15F8-DA66-4F3F-B0BD-59C12629D1A4:ABPerson",
"ACF80D8C-2953-48F0-9D66-6E0D557EAFCC:ABPerson",
"A699A102-1A9B-4F4E-8F45-5FC013CA37D3:ABPerson",
"C1AB59EB-0633-4320-8DA6-27880DF118CF:ABPerson",
"27E51C09-7551-4928-A7FB-519EF3DE376F:ABPerson",
"2DE1A1D8-B007-4E68-8597-0C4E6F2255EB:ABPerson",
"9407BF08-0BF1-41A4-A8D3-79E0BFC4EBD3:ABPerson",
"0BDD3314-2BAE-4A01-B9B4-7CAB8205063A:ABPerson"
)}

Resetting the AB data as prescribed in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1497 did no good. Any suggestions welcome.
thanks,
patrick