Apple Address Book for Lion – Unable to Search Your Contacts Since iCloud? Here’s the Fix!

Hey all,

So Apple released 10.7.1 with iCloud.  Cool!

I installed and updated my Mobile Me over to iCloud and was off to the races!  Nice!

The next time I went to open my Address Book and search for a contact, I entered the name of the contact, and NOTHING HAPPENED!

I tried removing the plist files, the address book application support data in the “now hidden” user library.

Nothing worked.

This must have something to do with the update of course!

Turns out the fix is easy, but elusive until you find it.

Here it is!

  1. Open up System Preferences and click on “iCloud”
  2. Next, uncheck “Contacts” in the pane on the right, and select “Keep Contacts”
  3. Reboot your computer!
  4. Follow the same procedure, and this time, check “Contacts” and Merge your contacts with the cloud
That’s it!  You should be all set and able to search again!

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3 Responses to “Apple Address Book for Lion – Unable to Search Your Contacts Since iCloud? Here’s the Fix!”

  1. Yinka Akinkugbe says on December 6th, 2011 at 3:41 am :

    Fantastically simple and effective solution to a problem that had driven me mad. Had actually tried re installing lion 3 times!!

    Thank you very much.

  2. Danny Sears says on December 6th, 2011 at 2:11 pm :

    Hi Yinka,

    Happy to help! I understand your frustration. I battled with it for a while before discovering the answer myself.

    Enjoy!

  3. Andrew Mackay says on January 18th, 2012 at 3:10 am :

    What Yinka said! I don’t know how many hours I’ve spent trying to find a fix for this. Thanks Danny!

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