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10.5: One way to recover from an Address Book crash
Authored by: PalmerWoodrow on Aug 25, '11 11:36:51AM

Sadly, deleting those ~/Library files doesn't work in Lion.



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10.5: One way to recover from an Address Book crash
Authored by: mattt on Dec 18, '11 10:56:26AM

I can't recover my deleted contacts in address book. I've moved above mentioned files... to my desktop. But address book won't bring back my contacts. Please HELP me here to bring back my contacts, PLEASE.



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Authored by: PalmerWoodrow on Dec 20, '11 10:01:29PM

Did you try the steps mentioned above? Make sure you back up the Address Book folder from ~/Library/Application Support before doing any experiments. Take a look at AddressBook-v22.abcddb in a text editor and see if it contains any of the data you've added lately (search for a name, for example).

Beyond the steps mentioned here, I don't have any magical solution. Do you use some other application that syncs with Address Book (like Outlook)? If I remember correctly, I had to export everything from Outlook (which had caused the corruption in the first place) and re-import it into Address Book. I then deactivated Outlook's ability to sync and stopped using that POS.



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