contacts will not save

I am having the same issue. Has there been any progress with this? (I am on a MBP Mid 2009, running 10.8.5). Thanks.

What we found out after some trouble shooting was that my iTunes backup was corrupt. So basically we made sure all my contacts were stored in icloud, and I had to reset my phone and reinstall all my apps. Pain in the ***, but that fixed it.

I do not think that this solution will solve my problem. I can add new contacts to the cloud via my iphone, ipad, or from the icloud on the web. I simply cannot add a neew contact via the application on my desktop. The desktop imports anything I add from the other sources via the cloud.

I cannot all of a sudden save contacts, when i choose create new contact next to a message or number add a name then click done, 2 minutes later it is gone, it also now asks for a password everytine i try to add a contact and never did that before