Back up Contacts

I want to manually back up my Contacts. My Mac and iOS devices are syncronized and I'm using iCloud, and I've had the experience of inadvertently deleting an important contact from one of my devices and then finding that it's been automatically deleted everywhere. Unless there's a way to keep a protected Contacts file on my computer or in the Cloud, I want to keep them on a memory stick. The problem is that I don't know where contacts are kept on my Mac so that I can back up the necessary files. Can anyone help?

You can open Contacts/Address Book on your Mac, then go to File>Export>Contacts Archive and save this file on your memory stick. Another approach is to use the app My Contacts Backup on your iOS device(s), which will back up your contacts as an attachment to an email that you send to yourself. You can then save the attachment on your memory stick.

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