Fixing broken sync for Address Book

If you’ve ever restored your Address Book from a backup, and found that your contact database would no longer sync with .Mac and your Palm OS device, here’s how to fix it. I discovered this after about two full days of working through the combinatorics of deleting, adding, backing up, restoring, and syncing.

1. In AddressBook, Export all your contacts to a vCard file.
2. Delete all your AddressBook contacts. Delete all your contacts on .Mac and your Palm device, as well.
3. Import your contact data from the exported vCard file.
4. Sync, et voila.

Sheesh.

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