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help! All contacts from Address Book disappeared after force quitting!
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How can I retrieve my contacts from address book? I had to force quit it and when I opened it again all my 1114 contacts were gone! I never manually made a backup of address book, does the application do that automatically by itself? I am afraid to press "revert to address book backup" because I am afraid it will make the problem somehow worse.
I also got a message from Sync Alert saying: " Syncing with Address Book will change more than 5% of your Contacts on this computer" and then it shows "delete 1114 contacts" and asks if I want to "cancel sync" or "allow". I think I should say cancel, but I'm afraid to make the problem worse.
Does anybode know how I can retrieve my contacts? Many, many thanks!!!
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Clinically Insane
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Need more details.
What are you syncing with (MobileMe, iPhone,...) ?
Do you use TimeMachine ?
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The computer came up with the message itself, I wasn't trying to Sync it to anything. I guess it is syncing itself with Address Book and noticed that there are way more changes to be made than usual (delete 1114 messages), so I am asuming it wants to check with me if this is really correct - but I don't know for sure if this is why it's doing it.
No, I don't have time machine cause I'm still running version 10.4.11.
Do you need any more info?
MANY THANKS for the help, I really appreciate it, situation is dire!!!
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by joanameroz 
The computer came up with the message itself, I wasn't trying to Sync it to anything.
Are you sure ?
It must have been trying to sync with SOMETHING.
When you go into AddressBook - Preferences - Accounts, is there anything checked ?
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wow, yes, it says it to synchronize with other computers using .mac!
I didn't know, but I myself don't use .mac (I think).
And no, I don't have an iphone.
What does this mean then? The message is still there, haven't turned the computer off nor emptied the trashcan since the disaster.
thanks again!
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If you don't use MobileMe what do you use? You can sync your data to you iPod.
In AB preferences>general you'll see "sync with" the list includes Yahoo!
So if you don't have a Yahoo account create one now (Free) wait for the returned email acknowledgement. This is the most simplest way I can think of... before doing anything go to your
User>Library>Applications Support>AddressBook & then alt+mouse-click hold & drag to desktop to copy your info.
I'm not no Tiger & can't remember if their was another way to back-up with I did find the app
MailCM to copy address from Mail to AB, also found a rebuild your AB but it's Panther Rebuild Apple Address Book — KnowIT
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