"me" picture automatically disappears

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"me" picture automatically disappears

All my pictures in my address book are working fine, but for some reason, the picture for "me" autmoatically deletes. I have it saved in my picture folder (just like the pics for all my other contacts), but when I choose that picture and then set it, it remains for about 1.5 seconds and then disappears. I have no idea why. I tried deleting the contact and then manually adding myself again, but as soon as it recognizes it as "me" it deletes the picture. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Mac mini (Mid 2011), iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jul 5, 2012 12:31 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 5, 2012 10:31 PM in response to trunkmonkey0351

same here !

on all my other Mac's and iOs devices the picture still shows

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Answer 2

Jul 10, 2012 11:16 AM in response to trunkmonkey0351

I have also observed the same behavior.

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Answer 3

Jul 10, 2012 11:26 AM in response to tobyfromgarland

Dropping and recreating my "me" card worked for me to resolve the problem. See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3342075?start=0&tstart=0

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Answer 4

Jul 10, 2012 12:22 PM in response to tobyfromgarland

Sorry, but I'll need to amend my earlier comment. Dropping and recreating my "me" card seemed to work, but only because of a strange problem with synchronizing the "me" card with iCloud. Once that was done, the problem came back.

However, I was able to finally fix the issue by doing the following:

Verify that the "me" card in iCloud shows the correct photo.
From the System Preferences app, go to iCloud preferences.
De-select "Contacts". When prompted, specify that you want to delete local contacts (if you are ok with that...)
Select "Contacts". When prompted, choose to merge contacts.
Verify that the "me" card photo appears as expected.