Addressbook and Calendar lost upon upgrading to

In upgrading to Yosemite from Maverick on my Macbook late 2009 (2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Storage available: 242.73 GB, Capacity: 319.21 GB) I have lost all my AB contacts as well as my calendar. I have looked in my home folder>library>applications support>addressbook as suggested but there is no file: addressbook-v22.abcddb. The data appears to still be in library>caches>com.apple.Addressbook>metadata. I also have time machine backups on an external disk. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Timothy,
Welcome to the Discussions. It is possible they are not lost, but not displaying because of certain conversion issues. Because your mailboxes, or at least some of them, originated in an earlier version of Mail, I want you to read the article at the link below, and perhaps get back to me with some observations, before attempting any changes:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301315
This issue of leftover files applies not only to mailboxes you have previously created (which are in the Mailboxes folder the article mentioned) but can also apply to those mailboxes in account folders created prior to the upgrade to Tiger.
Also, please report the size of each file or folder. Do not, however, try to list the files that are within the folder named Messages, that is found in each and every mailbox. It is very important to compare the size of any file named "mbox" with that of the Messages folder. If the mbox is greater in size than the Messages folder, then not all messages have been converted to be in the Messages folder in that mailbox.
The path to the Mail folder is Home/Library/Mail -- within the Mail folder are one or more account folders and the Mailboxes folder.
Let me know what you find.
Ernie

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