Address Book disappeared

Yesterday I was plugging along with things, when I had to force quit Address Book. When I reopen it, all my contacts are gone and it has reset the database (presumably).
Any suggestions?

This sometimes helps:
Quit Address Book.
In folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook drag file AddressBook.data to the desktop. Rename AddressBook.data.previous to AddressBook.data and restart AB. If your contacts are not back quit AB again and repeat the drag/rename process, this time with AddressBook.data.beforesave.
If you get your contacts back, now is probably a good time to use the AB menu item File/Back up Address Book.
AK

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My address book disappear from my MacPro, I know it is in the User Library-Application Support folder, but when I try to open that folder, it has a red tag on the folder and it said I have no Authority to open that folder, I am the only one using this machine, never have this problem. And it will not allow me to restore the address book from Time Machine back to this folder. What's wrong? I think I need to figure out why it wont let me open the Application Support folder, could anyone help? thanks.
One Symptom: when I run the address book App, and try to import address file, the Menu bar- File-the Import dialog was greyed-out and can not be used.

Could you please check the Sharing &permissions of these two folders (command +I). Check to see if you have "Read&Write access to these folders. It should be your user name with read&write privileges.
     You will have to open the lock on the bottom right and it will request the admin password. Should your name not be there, select it by clicking on the plus sign on the bottom right and selecting your user name. Select Read&Write privilege and under the gear wheel beside the plus and minus signs,Make sure you apply to enclosed items.
      It sounds like you somehow got them buggered. Rebuilding the permission table should of cleared up the problem. This could be a case of booting with your install DVD and rebuilding permissions from there.
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Next time you even think of modifying anything in you user library, Duplicate the whole folder and then you have a reference to go by. Just make sure that it is deleted after you are finished. This should be a standard step when troubleshooting. Changing something.....make a copy.

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Why did my Address Book disappear and how can I get it back?

The Address Book application has simply disappeared on two of my MacBook Pros. I thought the first one (work laptop) was a fluke but now that it's happened on my own MacBook I think something is wrong.
The app is no longer available anywhere on my hard drive. It's as if I threw it away, but I didn't. I can't open any associated files, so I don't even know if the data has been preserved.
Can anyone help me figure out why it disappeared, where it went, and how to get it back, short of reinstalling OS X 10.5.8 (the version I'm currently using)? I want to upgrade to Snow Leopard (not Lion -- no one seems to like it), but I'd like to fix this problem first. And I can't upgrade on the work MacBook because I have to use the enterprise-approved OS version.
Thanks!

Amy, is there a chance they could both be Syncing to another device that has the data erased?
What are the sizes & modification dates on the files you found?
Could be many things, we should start with this to be safe, though 2 different ones would seem unlikely to be this problem...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at the top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.

Augh! Half the contacts in my Address Book disappeared!

Dear Folks,
I just upgraded my laptop from OS 10.4.11 to 10.6.3. I launched Address Book this morning and fully HALF of the contact information has disappeared. That's something like 300 address "cards" just vanished.
What happened?!?! If I can't recover these from within Snow Leopard, which would be best, can you folks tell me the names and paths for the files that Address Book uses to store the 'cards?' I have my pre-Snow Leopard backup and I can go to it to retrieve those files.
Worst case scenario is that I have to reboot into Tiger from an external drive, pull in those old contact files, and manually re-enter that information into Snow Leopard's address book. Hopefully, there's a better way. But regardless, I need to get that contact info back.
HELP!
pax / Ctein

Dear Macnewbie and Barney,
Thank you very much! Wiping out everything in the AddressBook folder except for addressBook.data did the trick. The app regenerated my complete contact list-- didn't even have to resort to my backups.
BTW, Barney, Macnoob got the 'solved' credit because I didn't realize I could credit only one of you and I checked off his message first. It was my intent to give both of your credits-- apparently, not allowed.
As an aside, here's a nice little trick when you want to preserve files while preventing an app from accessing them. Compress them with the Finder. That converts them to a zip file that the app can't use, and you can delete the originals without irreversibly losing the data.
It's a trick I started using on PC's, where there can be "path" instructions that let applications access data file in all sort of places you'd not expect. After chasing my tail on a few projects where I thought I'd copied data to an inaccessible location and hadn't, I started doing this.
Anyway, thanks again.
pax / Ctein

My Address Book disappeared

I connected my iPhone today, as I usually do to sync it into my MacBook Pro. I went to sleep for a while, when I woke up and picked up the phone, I went into my Address Book, and suddenly I had NO NUMBERS STORED. Every number in it, except for one, and Apple's # was long gone. When I went to check on my MBP, it turns out that the Address Book didn't have any info either! I didn't erase anything, and I DO NOT understand where it went. I have crucial information from clients there. PLEASE HELP!

Actually, that behavior is not unusual at all. What happened is this:
1. Your contact records in the Address Book mysteriously disappeared.* This can happen for several reasons, notably crashes of Mail or the Address Book itself. It can also happen as the result of synchronization via .Mac Sync where this phenomenon occurred on another synchronized Macintosh desktop or portable computer.
2. Not knowing that these records had effectively been 'deleted' from your Address Book, you synchronized your iPhone using iTunes. The deletions were pushed through your framework, with the predictable result that matching records elsewhere were deleted. That's exactly what is supposed to happen during a synchronization event.
Here is an explanation of how this technology works.
*To protect yourself in the future, periodically back up the contents of your Address Book by using the option to do so available under the File menu. It's labeled Back up Address Book. There is a similar option for your calendaring data in iCal. In the event of a catastrophic failure like this, you can very quickly restore your records in either application.
In addition, in an effort to 'recover' your records, you can do this:
• quit Address Book if it is running
• locate the AddressBook.data file here…
Macintosh HD:Users:<username>:Library:Application Support:Address Book
• drag that file to the Desktop or the Trash
• duplicate the AddressBook.data.previous file in the same location, and remove the .previous suffix
• launch AddressBook
Your records may appear as a result of this simple file manipulation, though they most likely will not. At the point that you have no other alternatives, however, it's worth the effort to 'recover' them in this manner.

Address Book Disappears After Opening

My address book flies up above the top of my screen when I open it. It will appear when I hit F3, but then it disappears again when I click on it to open the page.
I can move the application to different desktops, where I can see the very bottom of the window, but am unable to use the mouse to drag it down to where it can do me any good.
On a frustrating meter, it's probably a five-and-a-half, or six. It's been like this for several weeks, and I probably ought to get this figured out before too much longer.
My software all seems to be updated. I've force quit the application, rebooted the machine, and nothing seems to be giving me any satisfaction.
I thank you in advance for any help you can give me on this one.
Peace,
Paul

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TIA

Welcome to the discussions, hmcc.
Sometimes this works:
Quit Address Book.
In folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook drag file AddressBook.data to the desktop. Rename AddressBook.data.previous to AddressBook.data and restart AB. If your contacts are not back quit AB again and repeat the drag/rename process, this time with AddressBook.data.beforesave.
AK

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Since upgrading to Lion I have lost all of my address book contacts except my user name and a contact for Apple. I tried restoring from a Time Machine backup but that didn't work. However, I have all of my contacts stored in iCloud that I can see on my iPad. Is there any way to download all of these contacts back onto my computer?
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Lou

Lou Hosta wrote:
I tried restoring from a Time Machine backup but that didn't work.
Did you go in Finder to Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/AddressBook and restore that folder?
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Address book entries disappear after MobileMe synchronization

Morning.
I've installed a clean MacOS X 10.6.8 installation from the scratch. I've found in the Address Book my own visit card and Apple's visit card. Then I've set to sync with my MobileMe account. After that I've set that MobileMe synchronization should replace all items on my local Address Book with the item stored in my MobileMe address book.
The result is: The items previously shown in Address Book disappear. The Address Book is completely empty. But in ~/Library/Application Support/Addressbook all the contacts are stored in the database and all the images as well. This is what ls -al has found:
drwx------   4 rafv staff      306 2 Feb 21:05 .
drwx------+ 24 rafv staff      850 2 Feb 10:17 ..
-rw-------@ 1 rafv staff    12292 2 Feb 21:08 .DS_Store
-rw-------   1 rafv staff       10 2 Feb 21:05 .database.lockN
-rw-r--r--   1 rafv staff 2439168 2 Feb 10:23 AddressBook-v22.abcddb
-rw-r--r--   1 rafv staff      328 8 Jan 15:15 Configuration.plist
drwx------   2 rafv staff      918 2 Feb 10:13 Images
-rw-r--r--   1 rafv staff    24576 2 Feb 10:23 MailRecents-v4.abcdmr
drwx------   2 rafv staff    56032 2 Feb 21:05 Metadata
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Thanks in advance and kind regards, Friedrich

Over the last few months I've had entries disappear - just one or two here and there. For a long time, I thought I was imagining things. But today I went to make some calls to my family and I did a search for the family last name. Only two cards came up... about 16 cards were missing. There's no way I deleted these. Fortunately, Time Machine saved me, but I didn't find the cards until about a week back, so they've been gone for a while (guess I don't call the family often enough).
My only guess is that there's some sequence I'm performing that ends up deleting a card (you know, something like editing a card, then switching to mail, then switching back to ABook and doing a search or something like that). But since I don't know when I've done it, I can't seem to track it down. I'm worried about vanishing data ... And unless I actually notice that it's vanished, I can't recover it, even with Time Machine.
I haven't had all my cards disappear - this is just an isolated few. Anyone else have this problem? Any thoughts?

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Over the last few months I've had entries disappear - just one or two here and there. For a long time, I thought I was imagining things. But today I went to make some calls to my family and I did a search for the family last name. Only two cards came up... about 16 cards were missing. There's no way I deleted these. Fortunately, Time Machine saved me, but I didn't find the cards until about a week back, so they've been gone for a while (guess I don't call the family often enough).
My only guess is that there's some sequence I'm performing that ends up deleting a card (you know, something like editing a card, then switching to mail, then switching back to ABook and doing a search or something like that). But since I don't know when I've done it, I can't seem to track it down. I'm worried about vanishing data ... And unless I actually notice that it's vanished, I can't recover it, even with Time Machine.
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Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 Address book entries disappeared in upgradin toox x 10.6. Can I restore, retrieve the old entries?

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Address Book Keeps Disappearing

I just transferred 6000 contacts from Entourage to Address Book, and a number of times over the past few days the ENTIRE contents of the Address Book just disappeared -- often I've been able to watch them vanish one by one.
Luckily I've backed up regularly so the data was not lost.
But *** is going on here? Reading this forum, I see I'm not the first.
Is there a limit to the number of supportable contacts? Is 6000 more than Address Book can handle/
Also, I've noted that my Address Book is ballooning in size. It began at around 10 mb, then every time I've had a crash and replaced it with the backup, it grew. Now it's almost 30 megs. No photos etc. -- just basic address data and a few notes.
Is there a way to "compact" the database à la Entourage?
Lost count Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Checked that and I did sync contacts. I deleted all Mobile Me contacts and all contacts in address book and Turned Sync completely off. Restarted and Address Book disappeared from Dock.
Quess that I have another Lion anolomy that will just bug me forever.
There are several other Lion issues that are driing me nuts.
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What to do when your address book disapears. For Blackberry Pearl.

I went nuts when this happened to me. Not that I didn't have a back-up, you should ALWAYS have a
back-up of all your info. I knew that all my contact info was still there, because when someone called or
when I called someone on my address book, all their information still came up on my phone. So I knew it
was all there, but when I went to the address book itself, there was nothing there, and it simply said there
were no contacts. I even added a new one, and that was not showing up in the address book either. VERY
frustrating. So I called My service provider and begged for help. Being a new black berry user, I didn't
know squat about what to do, and I couldn't find anything online that helped me to fix this problem. So, if
this happens to you, (which I am told it happens to people a lot), Here's what you do to fix it....
First you make sure you have a back-up copy of all your backberry info using your blackberry desk top
program. after that, make sure that you blackberry is disconnected from your computer. Then go to the
options on your main menu, click the trackball. Then go to the Security Options menu, click the trackball.
Select General Settings, click the trackball. Now press the balackberry menu key on the left of the
trackball. Select Wipe handheld, click the trackball. Ok, I know thes sounds a little scarry, but trust me it
will all be ok. Once it resets everything your pnone wont work and it is going to look like all your info is
gone, but that's ok. Now go through the setup wizard like you did when you first got your blackberry to set
it all up. you don't have to add in all your info or setup all your emails, you can re-enter all your info later,
and the emails will automatically be re-setup when we are all done. Now To get all your stuff back on the
phone, connect the blackberry up to your computer, and go to your blackberry desk top program. In the
desk top program, go to back-up and restore and restore your most recent back-up. Now click the
blackberry menu on the left of the trackball, select register now, click the trackball. Go to the options
menu, click the trackball. Go to advanced options, click the trackball. look on the next menu for Host
Routing Table, click the trackball. Now with your blackberry dial *228 and select option (1), to get your
phone in service again. Now go online and go to: (http://www.blackberry.com/go/vzw), make sure you
have your blackberry.com password and user name and your blackberry pin number. If the user name and
password you have do not work, than unfortunately you'll have to call your service provider to help you
with that. For Verizon, the number to call is: 1-800-922-0204. It's best if you do not call them from your
blackberry. Now what you want to make sure is that you have all your email passwords etc. Now from
here, you can either have your service provider send to your phone the Service Books, or you can just get
the info for the website I gave so that you can log onto it and send the Service Books to your blackberry
on your own. If you have your service provider help you, this is where you'll need your email passwords,
because before you send the Service Books to your blackberry you'll need to revalidate all your emails
accounts by clicking on the red symbol on the left, and it will ask for your passwords and take care of all
the rest. Once you have all your email accounts re-validated, then you can send the Service books to your
blackberry. You'll see the link on the left upper menu of the page that says Service Books, click on it and
wahlah. Now give it about 15 seconds or so. go to your black berry. Turn it off, and back on again.
Now turn your blackberry off and on again. When it comes back on follow all the menu promptings etc.,
and bingo you got your address book back.

Welcme to the Frums!
Sometimes when the address books disappear, a filter has gotten turned on.
Go to address book>> menu >>> filters >>> and make sure nothing is checked in either box.
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Where does 10.6 keep exchange data for Address Book?

Today I lost many of my exchange contacts (??) and I'd like to restore from a backup, but the database in ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book only seems to contain the "on my mac" addresses, and I really need to restore from a backup that contains my exchange contacts. Restoring from time machine fails, it only restores my local contacts. Anyone know where I can find that data? Totally baffled by this...

It's not only Exchange entries, I have the problem with regular address book entries stored locally (and synced to MobileMe). Sometimes they pop up, sometimes they don't, sometimes some show up but not all of them, it's very odd. I can temporarily correct the problem by adding the Library/Application Data/Address Book folder to Spotlight privacy exclusion, letting it sit for a few minutes, then removing it (so that it re-indexes the data), but with hours, it back to mysteriously dropping data.
Also recently all data in my Address Book disappeared, and I had to delete all the files in the Library/Application Data/Address Book folder, then re-sync to MobileMe in order to get it back. Very concerning!
I've been having this issue since 10.6 was initially released, and it concerns me that 2 point releases have gone by without a fix for this.
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