Accidentally merged all records into one contact, takes 12 hours to open

Hi
Hope someone can help me out
I accidentally hit a wrong key when experimenting with merge and the result seems to be that I have moved all of my 2000 ish contacts into a single contact.
When I try to open address book, it opens up a screen with the one contact listed and a huge column of numbers and all other name, address, title company mobile etc all in one long column of information.
I would delete it, but the file hasn't yet fully opened - the wheel thing is still spinning (after over 12 hours - I think it will eventually finish, because I actually did this sometime ago and copied and pasted the entire column into excel in the hope I might be able to line up all the contact info - not a chance!
I just want to get rid of the address file and start again as I have no hope of recovering the data
Any ideas how best to go about this - I want to start afresh and sync address book with my new iPhone
thanks
Geoff

You have an iPhone with a "working" (i.e., not hosed) address book?
Address Book stuff is in your User Library folder. It's actual location was changed from Tiger to Leopard so I don't remember where exactly it was. Under Leopard, it would be in your User Library Application Support folder. I'm thinking in Tiger it was not nested as deep, it was just in your User Library folder. It's clearly labeled as "AddressBook" or "Address Book" though. So if you can resync from elsewhere (like from your iPhone), just trash that folder. Also look in your User Library Preferences folder and anything in there that has "AddressBook" in it (e.g., com.apple.addressbook.plist), trash that, too. I wouldn't empty the trash until you successfully resynced your computer to your iPhone's address book and successfully reopened Address Book and verified that everything looks okay...you can always move the stuff from the trash back to its original location if stuff didn't work as planned. If there is a way to make a backup copy of your iPhone stuff, I would do that in case something bad happened (like your iPhone resynced to your "empty" computer, rather than your computer resyncing to your iPhone).

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