AddressBook Source Sync crashes my MacPro, why?

I have the same issue on MBP 13" 2.53. Everything comes to a halt.

I have also the same problem on my MacBook Pro [2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 4 Go 1067 MHz DDR3 / Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)]

The only thing you can do is to kill the service in the activity monitor, waiting the debugging from Apple... I hope it will be realised soon ?

I am having the same issue. Right now it is using 1.5 G of memory. Good grief.

Same issue! Please Apple, fix it.

Same issue, losing time and productivity? Any work arounds?

No update for this. Why ???

I found a solution elsewhere on the net...

Open address book then select all and export all to a .vcf file

Turn off icloud syncing if it's on

Delete all entries in the Address Book

Quit AB and then reopen it

Turn on icloud syncing for the AB

Took a couple of minutes to complete.

Hope this works for others also. Apparently in the AB to icloud upgrade if there was glitch it tries to make a correction but it just doesn't move past it. This work around gets passed the conversion issue.

Of course all this is dependant on you having all your address in icloud.

Regards, Tim

Tim

Brill, worked for me............so far 🙂

Garry

It dramatically slowed down the memory usage for me. Great work

I was using sometimes 40 / 60 % chip usage and up to 170 mo of memory just on this.

I originally thought someting was wrong as the Imac was overheating and getting very slow.

Just a note for others who will do this process: the Icloud sync is within the AB preferences, and not in the general Icloud preferences.

Thanks for the solution .

Apple : Sort it out !

Had this issue for past 2 months on my Macpro air running Mavericks and would quit the process to work around it. So far this fix has worked 😉