Some server contacts could not be copied to this address book.

GREAT! Thanks, problem with 1 card was causing all new cards not to sync. Perfect solution, Thanks!

Thanks so much - was driving me mad!!!

Same question for me. I have a long string for the contact detail but this doesn't help me identify the offending contact entry.

Hi,

Could you please help me with this issue...the steps mentioned above i don't understand.

Please help :

Some server contacts could not be copied to this address book

hi,

can u help me how to solve this problem.

i dont understand the steps.

YES!! I'm not so tech-savvy, so that /var/log/system.log bit intimidated me at first.

I was not able to locate using Finder.

But in attempting to Google that phrase I discovered that entering it into my Chrome search bar sent me to the right place.

I was again intimidated by the seeming pages and pages of messages. But in doing text search for "Ignored vCard" I discovered that there were only three cards that needed to be deleted.
Brilliant!! Thank you.

Only problem about this fix was that many Contacts were sync'ed backwards to older, unedited, versions rather than the updated versions that were on my other machine. :-(

Thank you, structAnkit, for listing the step by step instructions!

The steps worked for resolving the error message for my iCloud contacts. It turned out to be just one of the contact files that needed to be deleted and re-created.

Without your instructions on how to search the log file, I never would have found which contact was the source of the problem!

-Warren

I has a similar issue (viewing the log helped identify where the error occurred, but not with a identifiable name—just a long code that didn't link it to one contact I could see on the user end), and I found the action people suggested in this thread to be useful: Why is Contacts delete greyed out?

Hello,

1. Go to system preference,

2. Chose your iCloud account,

3. Uncheck contacts,

4. Check it again.

This will solve the problem

Thank you for your solution, but despite having found a corrupt card in the log, via the IGNORED message you mention, I cannot pull up that corrupt card in the contacts file. So there's no corrupt data to copy over to a new card.

How then can I find this card that keeps firing off an IGNORED message? It's in the log but not, somehow, discoverable in the app.

thanks

I can't find /private/var/log/system.log' and search for 'vcard' and I can't find "less /var/log/system.log".

At one point I did find the system.log, but then I had to repair my disc and now I can' t find the "less /var/log/system.log" file.

When I had found it earlier I couldn't tell what files were the problem. How do you tell?

This is what I found before I repaired my disc, but I can't tell what cards are causing the problem.

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: vCard Syntax Error, character: 51666 : ;

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: X-ABUID:15E0C484-33D8-4C55-AB8B-BCE1BFE7CF5A:ABPersond52dc4d6b499f;X-HASHAL

GORITHM=X-zMD5;ENCODIN

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: vCard Syntax Error, character: 51673 : N

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: :15E0C484-33D8-4C55-AB8B-BCE1BFE7CF5A:ABPersond52dc4d6b499f;X-HASHAL

GORITHM=X-zMD5;ENCODING=B:3wA

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: vCard Syntax Error, character: 51680 : A

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: 84-33D8-4C55-AB8B-BCE1BFE7CF5A:ABPersond52dc4d6b499f;X-HASHAL

GORITHM=X-zMD5;ENCODING=B:3wAAAPsAAA

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: vCard Syntax Error, character: 51687 : A

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: -4C55-AB8B-BCE1BFE7CF5A:ABPersond52dc4d6b499f;X-HASHAL

GORITHM=X-zMD5;ENCODING=B:3wAAAPsAAABMWkZ1g

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: vCard Syntax Error, character: 51694 : g

Mar 29 09:24:53 Our-MacBook.local com.apple.quicklook.satellite[4788]: B8B-BCE1BFE7CF5A:ABPersond52dc4d6b499f;X-HASHAL

Plus a few more.

When I enter "/var/log/system.log" in Finder, Terminal or TextEditor. Nothing happens. I'm looking for the errors to delete so iCloud contact syncing works properly. Any suggestions?

PROBLEM:

You MAC (osx) and your iPHONE (ios) do not support the same standards. (different software coders didn't talk to eachother and never used a common specification).

In the case of .vcf files (a very common type of Contact Card), my MAC and my iPhone cannot share one of my cards.

I looked at my /var/log/system.log file. Found that it was complaining about one of the 300 or so contacts I have sync'd between my iPhone, iCloud, and Mac. The error message seem to be related to a particular field in the .VCF.

Here is the offending line (coming from iCloud):

X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=Yelp;x-displayname="Carlsbad Auto Service:http://yelp.com/ ...

(note that a matching quote is missing).

Here is what the line looks like on the VCF card on my Mac:

X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=Yelp;x-displayname="Carlsbad Auto Service, Inc.":http://yelp.com/biz/

Note, it has a pair of quotes. I believe the quotes are necessary because the string contains a comma.

But IOS doesn't like this. On my iphone, that contact looks like:

Yelp:

"Carlsbad Auto Service

Note, only one quote. Definitely not right.

SOLUTION:

Delete the card and start over.

Note: this card came from either Apple Maps, or maybe Google Maps. The YELP field was not something I put in the card. I merely asked the Map to "Add to Contacts".

Apparently, "Add to Contacts" is a bad idea, because the software guys out there can't seem to agree on what field they will accept in the Card and what the syntax (format) for those fields will be.

I've been looking in the system.log file for a vCard as I'm getting the error in the Contacts app - but it's not returning any errors. I've searched "errors" "vcard" "socialprofile" ... but nothing is coming up. I don't sync via Google, just iCloud. Any thoughts on what I might be missing?

I am having the exact problem as the OP... and I have carefully read every single reply.

I simply do not understand most of what is explained in the steps mentioned in the answer posts.

I did put "ERROR" in the search field of Finder, and got a long list of items 😢 but NONE of them seemed to be a contact entry or card.

Can someone please help me... using Dummy 101 language?! THANK YOU SO MUCH!