[alligator]

My father has a corrupt address book that will not upload to MobileMe as part of the sync process. I've successfully gotten a new account on his computer to sync, but not the address book with 1000+ contacts in it. Everything else works perfectly. I've tried deleting 1/2 the contacts at a time to isolate the bad contacts/groups, but it fails on each 1/2 of the contacts. Preferences have been trashed, but did not work. I've also tried restoring it from Time Machine, exporting the contacts and re-importing them and it doesn't work. Is there a way to export everything into an Excel or Numbers file as text, erase the address book, then re-import everything?

Any other suggestions?

[Big Mac]

That sucks. How are you trying to transfer them over? Have you tried copying each individual vcard?

[King Bob On The Cob]

Try copy and pasting this code into Terminal while Address Book is closed:

Code:
echo '.dump' | sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb | sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb.new; mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb.bak; mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb.new ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb

If that doesn't work, use this document:

Sync Services: Advanced troubleshooting for contact and calendar syncing

[Doc HM]

try exporting all contacts as a vcard and uploading to gmail contacts, delete address book contacts then export back into address book.

[Veltliner]

Any chance to delete the database on the main computer and copy it over from the back-up hard drive?

I mean not reimporting addresses, but completely deleting the database.

and/or deleting address book.

Then reinstalling it and try if it syncs.

Maybe it's not the database, maybe it's the Address Book software that got corrupted.