ALL CONTACTS DISAPEARED AGAIN!!!

This is the 2nd time this has happened to me. There was a post earlier that told me to rename the file addressbook.data.previous to addressbook.data and it would restore my files. This is not working.
PLEASE HELP. I cannot afford to lose this files. They also used to be on my IPod, but are off of it too!

Have a look at this discussion: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=832788&tstart=195
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My wife and I share an iTunes account. Is there any way to set up a seperate one for her to sync her phone contacts, iCloud and music to without having to purchase all her music again and then share going forward?
It would be so much easier having seperate accounts but we have hundreds of her purchased songs on my account and she would need to be able to access these from her account. Possible?
Also, if we bought a song in future we would want to be able to both have access to it.
Alternatively, what is the easy way to sync two distinctly different contact lists to one iTunes account?
Thank you in advance.

FYI: iTunes account (used to make purchases) is not the same as iTunes library (iTunes on your computer with music, movies, etc.).
ecbclb wrote:
Will we have to create a seperate account for her, or can we all have the same one?
You can but you will not be able to limit what she syncs.
I would like to avoid 'checking' and 'unchecking' individual songs every time one of us tries to synch our ipods to the library.
I don't recommend using (only) the checkmarks to select what to sync.
Each of you can create your own playlists then sync only those playlists.
Then add/delete from your own playlists to change iPod content.
The only time I uncheck items is if I rarely/never want to sync them to anything, such as Christmas music or old audiobooks.
I suggest you each have your own computer login account. Then everyone has their own contacts, calendars, and everything else.
You and your husband can share an iTunes library and let your daughter have her own.

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all of my contacts disapeared, how do i get them back?

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A few days back, it started randomly exiting various apps for no reason. Today, I tried powering off and re-starting, but when it re-started it had erased all contacts.
Last backup was a couple days before, so I won't have lost anything crucial, but this is the first such disaster since bying the phone 3 years ago. I see numerous complaints about this, and no real solution or explanation offered from Apple. I figure it's about time to replace my phone, so this will be a test: either there will be a clear explanation and a solution, or I'll switch to Android.

What are you syncing them WITH? Do NOT say iTunes. iTunes is NOT a contact manager.
If you're syncing them with your computer, your choices are MS Outlook or Windows Address Book on a PC, and Contacts / Address Book on a Mac.
If you are not syncing your contacts with a contact manager or cloud service, you are NOT syncing your contacts.
See this document: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946
Particularly this item and disclaimer:
Contacts* and Contact Favorites (regularly sync contacts to a computer or cloud service such as iCloud to back them up).
* Your contacts are part of the backup to preserve recent calls and favorites lists. Back up your contacts to a supported personal information manager (PIM), iCloud, or another cloud-based service to avoid any potential contact data loss.

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I upgraded to iOS 5 and now I can't get to any of my contact details.
What I have -
The list of my contacts is displayed under the contacts option, but when I touch any contact name it takes me back to the home screen. Can't make any phone calls. But I can receive phone calls and the caller-id displays the correct name too. So my guess is the information is there somewhere, I just can't seem to find it or use it.
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5) Signed into iCloud.com with my account. The contacts info there has only one contact listed (mine).
6) Tried to edit contact details from one of my recent text messages. Doesn't work. Takes me backto home screen.
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Still, nasty bug Apple. :-|

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I've just purchased an ipad2 and have synced it with Outlook to get all contacts, etc. I've set up the mail account and it is working just fine. The sync doesn't pull over legacy emails from Outlook and my Outlook has been set up to remove them from the webmail server therefore they aren't available from webmail anymore. Is there anyway to pull them over to the iPad?

But is there a way (simple or not-so-simple) to find
out EVERY SINGLE FILE that's referenced on a
timeline? (I have lots of stuff imported into the
project that I know isn't used on any timeline, but
I'm afraid of moving or deleting things for fear of
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I'd love to get some sort of "printout" (a list or
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I've trawled through a number of the already-existing threads on this and tried a few things - in Terminal, or in Systems Prefs but can't get it to work.
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Thanks for posting the screenshots, that's helpful. I didn't realize that you were looking at your groups.
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Hello,
I lost my iphone5 but I managed to get it back, using the “lost” function available in the find my iPhone app.
I´m afraid that I used the lost function too late, because when I receive the iPhone, I noticed that someone already had changed several things as the device name, all sms were erased, as well as the calendar tasks and all contacts (but not the rest as photos, apps, etc).
Probably using my iTunes account.
I tried to use iTunes to get contacts back but all information had been synchronized with other contacts.
worst is the fact that all my other devices lost the same info…
Even my itunes, strangely, didn’t let me do the iPhone restore, even though the account is mine. I had to use iTunes of an other PC which I had used in the past.
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I also noticed that didn´t have my older backup copies in iCloud.
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2) How can I protect my self from the chance of someone have now access to my iTunes and icloud account?
3) Is there any way for me to recover the old configuration, contacts, agenda, etc?
I found in the web some sites presenting software to recover files for iphones
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Please help.
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Let me know if you're successful!!

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