Address book disappearing addresses

I spent hours entering addresses from Now Contact and also typing in phone numbers from my cell phone iinto the Mac Address Book. About 2/3 of the way into the process the address book window flickered a little and all information was gone. I thought it was auto saving? Is there any way to get it back?
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Actually, that behavior is not unusual at all. What happened is this:
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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.
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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).
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Quit Address Book.
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Lou Hosta wrote:
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This is how I established sync of my Outlook data with iCloud via this app.
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2. You install SyncMate and add iCloud as a new connection (depending on data you want to sync you need to choose "Cloud contacts" or "Cloud calendars" connection in SyncMate wizard and log into your iCloud via SyncMate). Once you've done this, you can sync data on Mac with iCloud via SyncMate.
3. I may assume that automatic sync option is enabled in Outlook preferences (as previously your contacts on Mac were synced with Outlook). If no - please, enable it (got to Outlook preferences).
4. Once all this done, data will be automatically synced betwen Outlook and iCloud (latter via SyncMate). The trick of SyncMate is that data is physically located on your Mac (thus ensuring it will be synced with other devices and accounts SyncMate supports, as I said before, SyncMate works with data which is located on Mac), but you still can have it in iCloud (sync will be performed via SyncMate, no need to enable iCloud itself).
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karl.rossing wrote:
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Address Book: All addresses gone

Happy day today (uggg).....open up address book (as an APP, or within Mail program). All addresses gone.
I do have a 3 month old BACK UP which I can use in desperation. But before I do, any thoughts on how to recover the current address book?
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It sure seems to be gone.
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Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
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If you have a spouse or child listed on contact card it will print them all on the mailing label IF the first name of each person is unique to your entire address book. For example, if the contact is John Brown and the spouse is listed as Susan Brown and the child is listed as Chester Brown, the expectation is that the label would print as:
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