Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
My Activity Monitor tell me this is using up to 90% of my CPU. I also see CalendarAgent, SyncServciesAgent and Mingle using this much. Where these come from and how can I stop/delete these?
iMac
Note: These instructions are for OS X 10.8 or later. In OS X 10.7, the procedure is the same, but the application is named "Address Book" instead of "Contacts."
Back up all data.
If you use iCloud, uncheck the box marked Contacts in the iCloud preference pane.
From the list of groups on the left side of the Contacts window, select All Contacts. From the menu bar, select
File ▹ Export ▹ Export vCard
Save the exported contacts to the Desktop, then quit Contacts.
Triple-click the text on the line below to select it, then copy it to the Clipboard (command-C):
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V), and press return.
A Finder window will open with a folder selected. Move the selected folder to the Desktop, leaving the window open for now.
Launch Contacts. Your contacts will be gone. From the menu bar, select
File ▹ Import
and import from the file you exported above. Your contacts will reappear.
Re-enable Contacts in the iCloud preference pane, if you disabled it earlier. Test. If the issue is resolved, delete the AddressBook folder and the vCard file on the Desktop and close the open folder window.
Otherwise, quit Contacts again and put the AddressBook folder back where it was, overwriting the newer one that will have been created in its place. Post your results.
Thank you Linc. that has worked well for me.
IOS Lion 10.7.5
Ray_J,
I followed the instruction to delete the container from the Lib and that stopped it for me.
2 Years later, not to late since the addressbooksourcesync was still bugging me.
So followed your Instructions....
till the last line is not clear to me...."Otherwise, quit Contacts again and put the AddressBook folder back where it was, overwriting the newer one that will have been created in its place".
I did that but there was no message for overwriting nor did the contents of the folder change! (they all have the new creation date).
Anyway here are the results:
and from Console log:
5/18/15 10:01:07.346 AM xpcd[5278]: restored permissions (100600 -> 100700) on /Users/removedbyme/Library/Containers/com.apple.AddressBook/Container.plist
5/18/15 10:01:07.626 AM Finder[173]: <ABAddressBook: 0x6080002d7290>: Resetting database due to: __CFNotification 0x600001e5f770 {name = ABDistributedDatabaseChangedNotification; object = /Users/removedbyme/Library/Application Support/AddressBook-0x6080002cf810; userInfo = {
ABRestoreFromMetadata = 1;
ABSenderProcessID = 16029;
ABSenderProcessName = Contacts;
kABUserUID = 501;
}}
5/18/15 10:01:07.642 AM sharingd[181]: <ABAddressBook: 0x7fdb4bc0b340>: Resetting database due to: __CFNotification 0x7fdb4bd51fa0 {name = ABDistributedDatabaseChangedNotification; object = /Users/removedbyme/Library/Application Support/AddressBook-0x6080002cf810; userInfo = {
ABRestoreFromMetadata = 1;
ABSenderProcessID = 16029;
ABSenderProcessName = Contacts;
kABUserUID = 501;
}}
5/18/15 10:01:07.736 AM soagent[1638]: <ABAddressBook: 0x7fea83715520>: Resetting database due to: __CFNotification 0x7fea8374ab20 {name = ABDistributedDatabaseChangedNotification; object = /Users/removedbyme/Library/Application Support/AddressBook-0x6080002cf810; userInfo = {
ABRestoreFromMetadata = 1;
ABSenderProcessID = 16029;
ABSenderProcessName = Contacts;
kABUserUID = 501;
}}
5/18/15 10:01:07.753 AM com.apple.DataDetectorsDynamicData[797]: <ABAddressBook: 0x7faf8841da50>: Resetting database due to: __CFNotification 0x7faf8860cd80 {name = ABDistributedDatabaseChangedNotification; object = /Users/removedbyme/Library/Application Support/AddressBook-0x6080002cf810; userInfo = {
ABRestoreFromMetadata = 1;
ABSenderProcessID = 16029;
ABSenderProcessName = Contacts;
kABUserUID = 501;
}}
5/18/15 10:01:18.471 AM AddressBookSourceSync[16035]: Could not replace account with identifier: _local
and so far nothing more after the last message!
It might be a success, but lets wait for it.
I have to add, I did turn off the Internet accounts -contacts as well, so now I have only On-my Mac.
Is this still valid for 10.10.4?
When I re-open Contacts - it briefly shows Apple & Myself - then a second later re-populates with all contacts, thereby negating the step to File ▹ Import.
Console log shows continual activity from the process 'AddressBookSourceSync'. It's impossible to quit the process in activity monitor. I don't use iCloud for Contacts on any device.
AddressBookSourceSync process runs continually, even when Contacts App isn't used - not logged in to iCloud. Why so many enteries in the console log?
How to stop AddressBookSourceSync
