Where does Mac OS X store contacts in my Address Book? Has this changed from Snow Leopard to Lion?
Where does Mac OS X store contacts in the Address Book
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I have a similar issue here, but not involving MobileMe. I 've been struggling to see any of my iPhone 4 (running iOS 5 beta4) contacts appear in Lion's Address Book. It's all empty, whatever I do through iTunes (10.5 beta 4) (either manual syncing of Contacts, or by using iCloud).
At least all my contacts are still on the iPhone... but i'm stuck with a beautiful new Address Book on Lion which has 0 contacts... (or just that "Apple Inc" and "Me" contact cards)..
When I had Snow Leopard I had the Google address book sync enabled and I somehow managed to put a 'sync' icon in the menu bar.
If I remember correctly I added it from the "old" iSync application (unsuccessfully trying to sync with a Samsung phone).
Now in Lion I still have it and it allows me to manually force the update of my Google address book, but I can't find how to obtain it as the iSync app seems to have disappeared.
This article here describes the situation of iSync in more details
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Best Answer
The path is
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/on both Snow Leopard and Lion.Note that you can't see the Library in your home folder (as it is hidden by default). You can type in
chflags nohidden ~/Libraryin Terminal to make it appear permanently, or hold down ⌥ Option while in the "Go" menu of Finder.