Address Book just disappeared like that
I realize lost address books is a consistent topic. A number of apps were open: Photoshop, Word, Safari, iCal and my Address Book. I went away for 40 minutes, came back and it was necessary to Force Quit all the programs. Address Book could be seen with addresses but after Force Quit ALL the addresses disappeared. Does anyone have a thought or idea as to where?
Welcome to the discussions, jfulton.
The simplest is to restore from your backup. Otherwise:
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.
I would be a bit worried about all your open applications having frozen. You should run through the various checks here.
AK
Similar Messages
-
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.
Thanks for your help. -
Address Book app disappeared; how can I reinstall it?
Out of the blue, my Address Book app disappeared. The icon in the Dock has a question mark on it, and the application itself is no longer in my Applications folder, or anywhere on the drive. Even stranger, it's not in any of my Time Machine backups, even though it was working and present until yesterday.
Mind you, I'm not talking about the data. it's that the app itself is gone. Interestingly, my email still seems to act as if the Address Book contact information is still present. But if I select an address in an email "from" field, for example, and say "Open in Address Book," nothing happens.
Now here's an even weirder part. I also have a recent backup of my Apple Mail and Address Book using Email Backup Pro. After seeing that the Address Book app seems to have also disappeared from my Time Machine backups, I opened Email backup Pro and did a restore of my Address Book. The program reported that the Address Book was successfully restored, but nothing changed -- the Address Book app was still nowhere to be found. I've done this twice.
I also have my Address Book data on my iPod Touch (thankfully). Synching does nothing -- nothing changes on the iPod or on the hard disk, in terms of Address Book.
I'm baffled. Although I'd like to know what caused this, my more immediate concern is to get a functioning Address Book installed again. I booted from the Snow Leopard disc, but could see no option to install just the Address Book.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, John.click here for instructions.
-
Address book contacts disappeared yesterday out of nowhere... how do I -
Hi,
Address book contacts disappeared yesterday out of nowhere... on my new MacBook Pro Core Duo. How do I re-import contacts from a "Carbon Copy" of my old MacBook G4 address book? I have a perfect copy of my Hard Drive on an External Hard Drive. However, I didn't set up my new MacBook Pro - and can't believe all my contacts just disappeared yesterday...
Suggestions? Step by Step instructions?
Thanks in advance...!You’re welcome.
All you have to do is copy those files & folders from the backup to the location where they should be, replacing any files with the same name that may currently be there. Your home folder is /Users/username/. And you must first quit any applications that may access those files.
Things are more involved if you do any kind of synchronization, though. Actually that could be the reason your contacts disappeared in the first place. In that case, the procedure would be as follows:
1. If you have a .Mac account and .Mac synchronization of Address Book data is enabled either in Address Book > Preferences > General or in System Preferences > .Mac, disable it before proceeding.
2. You may also need to reset the entire sync history (iSync > Preferences > Reset Sync History) to avoid synchronization issues if you use .Mac or iSync to synchronize your Address Book with other computers or devices.
3. Quit Address Book, Mail, and any other applications that might use Address Book for something. Or just quit all applications to be on the safe side.
4. In the Finder, copy the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist preferences file and the ~/Library/Application Support/AddresBook folder from the backup to the corresponding location within your home folder, replacing the files with the same name currently there. Alternatively, to avoid accidentally overwriting any files, you may first move to the Desktop the files that should be replaced and trash them after checking that everything is OK.
5. If your data has been successfully restored and .Mac synchronization of Address Book data was enabled at the beginning, enable it again, go to System Preferences > .Mac > Advanced, click Reset Sync Data, and choose the appropriate options to reset the Address Book data stored on the .Mac server with the data locally stored on the computer, i.e. sync data must flow from the computer to the .Mac server. -
contact from my phone book just disappeared.dont know how ..and it happen second time in 1 month time. Apple customer service in India is crap... Sorry to say but 700 contacts got disappeared.can someone tell me how to get this contacts back on my phone.plz
the same problem happened to me also, i felt that while playing hay day, if some calls came in between and if i answered the call, the setting of all the icloud items turns off. (i have backup of all the items on icloud), after deleting the account and making settings of mail, contact, calander etc on on mode and after rebooting the phone, it again download from icloud server. but it is just a headache. do not know how to handle this.
-
In Address Book, I would like to have a field "File As". So, l can list "Joe Smith", as "The Smith Family". I will use this when I print labels for Xmas cards and such. Thanks!
In Address Book, I would like to have a field "File As". So, l can list "Joe Smith", as "The Smith Family". I will use this when I print labels for Xmas cards and such. Thanks!
-
My address book has disappeared.
Mac Mini 10.8.5 My address book has disappeared. I can find 2 items when I search for address book, but each of them contain only the items in the address book, not the address book it self. Need suggestions, please.
Click and hold the Dock icon while the application is running. Select
Options ▹ Keep in Dock
from the popup menu. -
I have several groups on my Mac Address Book and would like to sync only one group to each IOS5 device (each device getting a different group) via iCloud. Is this possible? If so, how is it done?
Thanks in advance,,,,,Can we control syncing at all? I can't seem to make a Local/On My Mac group in Address Book.
-
On my Mac desktop I must have changed a setting so that now when I move the mouse the open windows fly off to the sides and I can't see them. They come back when I move the mouse, but it is so annoying. How can I make the windows not disappear like that?
Click on the Hot Corners.. button and look at the four definitions. In the picture below, if you moved the cursor to the right top of the screen, it would slide all the applications off the screen as you describe and show the desktop. Set it to "-" to deactivate.
-
My email address book has disappeared maces 10.5.8
my email address book has disappeared maces 10.5.8
Paul, get one of these...
Find Any File...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30079/find-any-file
I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/
Search your whole drive for...
AddressBook.data
Do we find a bigger one? -
I have an iPhone 4s. Suddnely for past two days, The contact names from my address book are disappeared. Has anyone came across this issue earlier and know the solution please?
You had to have some kudos for the effort put in to your thread as week as the point you make.
-
Hundreds of email addresses have suddenly disappeared from my personal address book on Thunderbird. Gone. Previously, I would begin to type in a name and the system would complete it, now that is only possible if the email is stored in the address book. Some email addresses remained, but most have been wiped out. What happened? Where did they go and are they recoverable? This happened within the past week. Thanks for your help!
First, don't try to find and reimport or move photos via the My Photos search in the left hand pane of a Finder window. That's a sure way to further damage a library.
Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #4 to rebuild the database.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button and select the library you want to add in the selection window..
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT -
Just got my first Mac and cant find how to change the appearance of my address book. Can anyone help?
Check out the built-in Address Book Help guide on your Mac (in Address Book, choose Address Book Help from the Help menu. I dont think you can change the way the address book looks in terms of changing its appearance to look more book like, but I could be wrong. I checked out a few google searches and did not find anything that stated how to do what you are asking. If you find you cant change it to your desired specifications, you can always make the suggestion to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/
-
While in the "compose" page of my email account with Cox.net I have the following problem. When I click on the "To" icon, my address book appears and functions properly for a short time, then mysteriously disappears behind the "compose" window. I have to minimize the "compose" window in order to expose the address book window and complete my selection of recipients. This is a new problem that occurred in the last two days. Can you help me correct this issue?
Exactly what Shootist007 states - take it in for service or replacement - could be a simple software issue or it could be a hardware issue...
Don't even bother messing with it.....Might screw up even more.....
Make sure your files are backed up in case they give you a replacement....
Good luck - hope you get it sorted out... -
My phone (4s) is somehow adding all my email and physical mail address book contacts to my contacts in my phone, which I prefer to keep to telephone numbers only. How do I get all this stuff out of my telephone book and back to normal?
If renaming addressbook.data.previous to addressbook.data hasn't brought back your contacts, get rid of addressbook.data (drag it way or delete it) and rename addressbook.data.beforesave to addressbook.data
The rename process works for some people and not for others; I suspect it has to do with how soon after the problem they have tried it.
No, I didn't take your reply as being rude.
I don't know of any way of recovering anything from the skindexinverted file, and anyway I suspect it is litterally an index, and does not hold the full data. Certainly on my machine it is only 1/20th of the size of the data file.
AK
Maybe you are looking for
-
How can I get my music files back when they are no longer on the computer?
So the problem I am having is that I cannot play songs on the playlist because "the file cannot be located" error. I checked the iTunes media folder and they weren't there. I searched my whole computer and they still could not be found. The story be
-
I need a cd for a wireless G wrt54G. I didnt get a cd in my box. I tryed to download it on my computer, You dont let us download Do you? I need to get my wireless router up and going. janice
-
Hi Sapians In which case Document Management System (DMS) is useful for FI and CO module, please write in detail.
-
HT4623 When I go to Software Update, I keep getting the message, "Unable to Check for Update."
When I try to access "Software Update", I keep getting the message, "Unable to Check for Update." I am also unable to connect to the App Store. Anyone have a solution, please?
-
PI 2.0 - virtual express "setup" Fail - The passwords do not match:
Hi all, Since my lab is mostly VM, I was going to upgrade my PI 1.3 to 2.0. Cisco documentation says the inline upgrade is not supported for the small virtual appliance. Anyhow, I deployed the new 2.0 Express virtual OVA file, allowing to to use al