Contacts IN iCloud but NOT my Macbook

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Contacts IN iCloud but NOT my Macbook

Upgraded my iPhone and my wife's iPhone (both 3GS to OS5) and our MacBook to Lion. Contacts are syncing betweenboth phones when one makes a change it shows up on the other iPhone too. Awesome! But we can't get them on our mac for anything!

In iCloud preferences I check off contacts and it says starting and then stays checked. When I close system preferences and open back up the contacts is UNCHECKED. Any thoughts? Also, the address book app is blank.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 16, 2011 5:38 AM

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hlumbard Author

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Oct 16, 2011 6:00 AM in response to hlumbard

Upon further investigation I can't do ANYTHING in adress book. It doesn't let me create a new contact or anything. I'm thinking there's something wrong with the app, not iCloud. Is there a way to reinstall address book? Maybe I'm missing some preferences in the Library folder?

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hlumbard Author

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Oct 16, 2011 6:08 AM in response to hlumbard

The end. I had previously been using dropbox to sync contatcs. On the mac there was still a forgotton alias poiting to nowhere (drop box address book I got rid of after iCloud). Just deleted the file and started address book again and it created the folder it needed.

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