OS X Yosemite does not import contacts from iCloud.

Thanks for sharing that worked for me!✅ Was getting annoyed. But this is very fast way to solve the problem! 🙂

You are most welcome.

Interesting I have discovered since then that Yosemite had corrupted a number of my Contact entries by repeating the same fields anywhere from 10 to 40 times. This corruption all ways occurred with Contacts that had a lot of information mainly large families with lots of birthdays and child name entries.

The quickest way I found to correct/edit this corruption was to export each Contact card as a vCard then edit with my TextWrangler.app and save then delete the Contact entry and re-import corrected vCard. The reason for this was Contacts keep updating to the Cloud and this slowed editing down.

Good to know for future reference! Same happened to me, the contacts that were corrupted had a lot of information. However I had a backup file from another device so just imported the whole Contacts archive again. It is very interesting though that the synchronisation failure with the iCloud contacts occurred only on my iMac; my laptop was fine after the Yosemite upgrade.

Apple shouldn't have created issues for day-to-day operations, and should have worked more in the integration of Yosemite on previous OSX. I would like to see though, if after the 10.10.1 update the problem resolved for other people.

Hi,

Here's what worked for me:

1. Open System Preferences

2. Navigate to iCloud

3. Choose "Sign Out" at the bottom left corner of the pane.

4. Choose "Delete from Mac" for every iCloud service you have synced.

5. Sign back into iCloud once everything is deleted.

Once I signed back in, I opened up Contacts and my contacts were already starting to sync.

Status:

• On iCloud.com: I can see all my contacts.
• On my iPhone 5s (iOS 8.1): I an see all my contacts.
• On my Macbook Air with Yosemite: I can't sync the contacts. Tried all the solutions mentioned here in this thread but nothing worked for me.

This solution that worked for me:

I have edited one by one the contacts on my iPhone (without changing anything, just edit and then save) and at the same instant that I saved the contact on my phone it automatically appears on the Contact apps in Yosemite.

Hope this solution helps you!

Status:

• On iCloud.com: I can see all my contacts.
• On my iPhone 5s (iOS 8.1): I an see all my contacts.
• On my Macbook Air with Yosemite: I can't sync the contacts. Tried all the solutions mentioned here in this thread but nothing worked for me.

This solution that worked for me:

I have edited one by one the contacts on my iPhone (without changing anything, just edit and then save) and at the same instant that I saved the contact on my phone it automatically appears on the Contact apps in Yosemite.

Hope this solution helps you!

Deleting everything from ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook was the only thing that worked for me.

I did notice this stale lock file from a long time ago. Perhaps it was the issue all along?

-rw-------@ 1 me staff 10B Dec 6 2013 .database.lockN

Thanks for the translation and to the OP of the solution.

This worked for me. Suddenly Yosemite did not want to sync the contacts and was just throwing an error to me.

I have followed this procedure and then re-enabled Facebook syncing too.

Now iCloud contacts are working again as they should.

Merci!! This solved immediately my problems!!

Apparement, Yosemite a bien changé depuis votre post. Aucun Library dans Utilisateurs. Aucun dossier Address Book dans Application support. Impossible de redacter les entrés dans Contacts.

Merci beaucuop,

Finewine, you are a saviour - I was pondering this problem for several hours before I found you post.

Thankyou for saving me from doing something irreparable!

Regards

Had the same. Deleted adress book folder, launched the contacts – and everething is back in place.