Address Book gone, and erased from iphone

After an computer update, I had to restart my computer. My iphone was plugged in at the time. When it restarted, I looked at my phone and all the contacts were gone. After checking my address book on the computer, that was erased as well. Is there anything i can do to get my contacts back?

Hi Rich, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Ouch!
Try this for starters... no iPhone plugged in of cure...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Reboot when it completes.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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