Address Book is missing Notes probably due to syncing

I'm having trouble with notes that I have entered in the Note section of Address Book. Some of my Notes are disappearing entirely for seemingly random contacts. Out of about 2000 contacts the notes for about ten or twenty random contacts disappear forever. This has been happening to me for years using Address Book although I frequently update. I'm guessing that its related to problems synching my Address Book with my iPhone, MobileMe, and iPad. I backup using MobileMe and Time Machine. Any suggestions on how to prevent this persistent problem? Also, is there an easy way to restore just those missing notes from Time Machine without replacing my entire Address Book with an old copy that will almost certainly be inferior because it is not up to date. I can't take the time to go through all 2000 contacts to figure out which ones have missing notes.

Hopefully your computer included the correct install-restore discs and if the
OS was an upgraded version from the original, those discs are there, too.
You can use a demo mode of Pacifist (download from CharlesSoft) and
have it extricate the specific parts of the correct OS X Installer and then
it can install just the missing item(s) from the desktop. This is a bit tricky.
(Should be better than performing an Archive & Install to just get one part.
And the A&I process doesn't require wiping the hard drive, just upgrading.)
Sometimes the instructions with Pacifist appear to be counter-intuitive;
so if the utility does not work, be sure to recall details of what you did
and try the other possible path. Be sure to repair disk permissions on
the system once you are done; that shouldn't hurt but may help.
If you had a bootable full computer clone on an external hard disk drive,
you could probably just get the Address Book from there. However,
some of the main system parts need to be Installed correctly since a
few other parts get put into places where they aren't really seen.
Good luck & happy computing!

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