Can't Edit Contacts

[chowza]

Hi All --

Re: 15" MBPro, 2.2 GHz, Core i7, OSX 10.8.5

In Apple Contacts (and also in CoBook) I am unable to edit any contacts. I can open a contact, click the Edit button and make changes, but after clicking the Save button, the contact data reverts to what it was before.

I also see that there are 9 Address Book related plist files, of which several are duplicates with a "lockfile" suffix. I'm guessing that the problem might be due to the "lockfile" duplicates and deleting some/all of them might fix the problem, but before blindly trying that, if anyone can provide advice here, I will be very grateful.

These are the plist files with lockfile duplicates:
com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist.lockfile
com.apple.AddressBook.plist
com.apple.AddressBook.plist.lockfile
com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync.plist
com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync.plist.lockfile

This plist lockfile is on its own:
com.apple.AddressBook.sync.plist.lockfile

These plist files do not have lockfile duplicates:
com.apple.AddressBook.plist.aLPoWRW
com.apple.AddressBook.plist.vkBl05q

Lastly, I should mention that, per on the sync plist files above, my contacts are sync'd between my MBPro, iPhone 4S,
and iPad Mini -- I don't know if that has anything to do with the problem or not but thought I should mention it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,

On your MBP go to Contacts
> Preferences > Accounts,
What accounts do you listed or enabled?

 

[chowza]

Thanks for the fast reply. iCloud is the only account listed and it is enabled.

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,

Possibly try this,

1. Quit Address Book
2. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/
3. Delete the entire "AddressBook" folder
4. Open Address Book and wait for the address book to automatically repopulate.
5. This may take a minuet or two.

 

[Kaveman]

I'd put backup via
File > Export...

before doing this.

 

[oldscribe]

I'd put backup via
File > Export...

before doing this.

Thanks Kaveman I should have put the backup as No1.

 

[chowza]

Thanks much! That seems to have fixed the problem. I only tried editing a couple of random contacts, but the changes did stick, so it appears that all is well, thanks.

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,

Your welcome, thanks for the feed back may help other users who encounter this issue.