.Mac Address Book: Changes don‘t sync to your Mac OS X Address Book

Issue or symptom

You may encounter one of these issues:

• Some changes made to your online .Mac Address Book may not successfully sync with your computer, or vice versa.
• You attempt to disable syncing in the online Address Book, but the syncing option remains enabled (yet syncing does not occur).
• Your online Address Book has not been synced in several days or weeks despite recent changes to it or to Address Book on your computer.

Solution

As a workaround:

1. Log out of .Mac by clicking Logout (don't just quit your Web browser).
2. Remain logged out of .Mac for at least 30 minutes.
3. Log back in to .Mac and try again.
4. If the issues still occur, contact .Mac Support.