3.1.3 update deleted 50% Address Book data

After the latest update deleted half of my Address Book, I made the stupid mistake of syncing to get them back. Unfortunately, I did a two-way sync which permanently deleted the data in my Address Book. I have thousands of contacts and don't even know where to begin replacing the data. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a chance the data is still embedded somewhere? I have not been able to see Address Book data in Time Machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Had the same problem and I've posted my own topic.
I find it very disturbing that you can lose all your contacts, and I hope you had a back up. I was lucky because a backup was made three days earlier so I only lost three days of new addresses (not much).
Hope you find your contacts
Rob Buck

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    3aWV0JTVFU01UUCU1RWtpZXJld2lldCU0MHZsYWFtc3BhcmxlbWVudC5iZTwvR3JvdXBFeE1lbWJ
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    - what about scalability, we will be having members with thousands of entries in their addressbook, is this method scalable or will we be experiencing delays when users are looking up contacts in their address books ?Assuming you have a sufficiently scoped/tuned directory server I don't see there is going to be a problem.
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