Someone solve my problem for me.

[foxgrrl]

I seriously just don't have time for this… When I plug my iPhone in, it goes:

iTunes could not sync contacts to the iPhone "Julia's iPhone" because the sync server failed to sync the iPhone.

… and of course, doesn't sync anything. All of the advice I can find about it on Google are LIES! FILTHY LIES! So to save you some time; I'm not running exchange or Yahoo anything. I've completely wiped my phone to factory settings — leaving it in a even less useful state than before &mdash erasing all of my contacts with the OSX Address Book utility, and Reset Sync History in iSync.

Here's a clue no one else seems to have noticed so far:

2007-09-19 01:58:09.754 AddressBookSync[6257] CFLog (0): 
	CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
	/Users/julia/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/clientdata/0063006f006d002e006100700070006c0065002e00410064006400720065007300730042006f006f006b/004100420053004c00610073007400530079006e00630044006100740065
	The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
2007-09-19 01:58:09.765 AddressBookSync[6257] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: *** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0xffffff89, 0x3a, 0xffffff94, 0xfffffffc, 0x18, 0xffffffb6, 0x55, 0xffffff9a)

Comments

[ctuck.livejournal.com]

I think everyone is on the right page with the bad character in your Address Book file. There is a chance you didn't put it there too... sort of sucks, right? Obviously, make sure you have all the latest updates. Have you run Repair Disk Permissions from Disk Utilities (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities). This is the first line of troubleshooting for OS X. Atleast in my book.

[foxgrrl]

Ran both Verify Disk Permissions, and Verify Disk. Both were ok. I nuked all of my actual Address Book data already. (It's empty). (Latest updates too and everything.)