Can I delete all my contacts on the BB using Finder?

I can sync everything except contacts on the DTM. For address book, I get the dreaded "KB19454" error. When it did sync, it repeated only one name 156 times.
I've found a work around using google contacts and google sync, which has gotten other people's numbers onto my phone, but I can't get that one person off. I'd like to just delete the contacts file on the BB using finder and start over with google sync. Anyone know how to do that?

Great tip on typing "rset" to deleted your BB contacts. My issue is that I duplicated contacts after syncing my Curve with the BB Desktop Manager for Mac. On my Curve, I have 2 address books on my BB. Using the desktop manager, I deleted all my contacts. I then did the "rset' on my BB for good measure. So my BB now shows 2 address books that are both empty. And if I open up either 1 then it shows as empty, too. However, if I show "all address books" then I have all the contacts still there.
How do I get rid of them? I've already deleted them manually twice and am tired of doing that for 900+ contacts.
Any way I can delete these contacts on my BB that the desktop manager doesn't see?

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How can I delete all my contacts from the icloud?

I've been working with Apple's sometime, and now I have been forced to use iCloud after MobileMe.
After syncing a couple of devices, some things went quite wrong. My iCloud contacts are now a complete mess. I have lots of duplicates. And over 8000 contacts.
What I want to do is, is do a cleanup, and clear all the iCloud contacts, and import a new 'clean' address book from 1 mac to the icloud, which then in it's turn can be synced to all the devices?
Is dit possible? I've noticed deleting manually is a pain, because the browser doesn't really allow more then 50 contacts or so at a time, before the browser freezes.

Go to your Contacts on your Mac - if more than one pick the most accurate; delete any contacts you don't want. Select all the contacts, and from the File menu choose 'Export...'>'Export vCard'. Save the resultant file safely: it will be your 'master' list.
Now delete all the contacts from whichever device has the most in it. Sync with iCloud. If necessary repeat with different Macs. The result should be that the deletions sync to iCloud and in the end you finish up with empty Contacts lists everywhere.
Now you can import your saved file to one of your Macs. Make sure you import it under 'iCloud' not 'On My Mac'. Then it should propagate iCloud and any other devices. Keep the saved file at least until you are satisfied that all is in order.

HT204150 I accidentally deleted all my contacts in the Cloud, please help restore!

I accidentally deleted all my contacts in the Cloud, please help restore!

Tap Settings > iCloud
Switch Contacts off then back on.
If that doesn't help, try here > iCloud: Restore your iOS device from iCloud

How can I delete all my contacts in Address Book?

I had syncing issues between my Entourage 2008 contacts, my Address Book contacts, and the PowerMac for Blackberry application. As a reference, I have around 5,000 contacts. I have solved the issue, but there is some collateral damage: read on.
Address Book duplicated my contacts two or three times, and it also created around 60,000 empty contacts. I have been able to clean the Entourage contacts, which only suffered from duplication but not from new empty entries.
I tried to delete the Address Book duplicate and empty entries. The easy way out, I thought, was to Select All and delete. It does not work. Given I have ended with around 80,000 contacts, after I Select All, and try to delete, the program hangs, and I have to Force Quit the Address Book application.
I tried to locate the Address Book file where contacts are stored, but I have not found an obvious name that would point to it, nor have I read anything about such file in the different discussion forums. So no success on this.
I have even used scripts in the past for deleting duplicates and merging contacts in Entourage, but I have not found one for Address Book that could take care of the massive number of empty entries with "No Name".
So, is there a way to delete all my contacts in Address Book?

There are two possibilities you can try:
1. Delete all your duplicate entries. You can try downloading and running this Applescript Remove Duplicates, which will create a group named Duplicates in Address Book, from which you should be able to delete those entries, by selecting the Group, then in the next column to the Right, select all the entries and choose Delete Cards from the Edit menu.
2. If that doesn't work, you can do this:
1. Quit Address Book if it's running.
2. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook and delete an of these files/folders you find there:
• ABPerson.skIndex
• ABPerson.skIndexInverted
• Address Book - xxxxx.abbu
• AddressBook.data
• AddressBook.data.beforesave
• AddressBook.data.previous
• Images
• LastImport.plist
3. Restart Address Book and see if the default cards are there (Apple card, and your Me card) and if all seems to be working correctly.
Mulder

How do I delete all my contacts at the same time?

I want to delete all my contacts from my iphone 4s. I know how to delete them one at a time, but I want to know if there is a quicker way?

On the iPhone I'm afraid you are not able. I would suggest you go to the address book you are syncing to on your computer and delete them there, then re-sync. It should delete them from your iPhone.

HT5824 How can I delete all my contacts from icloud with a single command?

I would like to delete all my contacts from iCloud so when I synchronize with my other devices, the one I already have don't be duplicated or deleted

If you delete all your iCloud contacts, then enable contact syncing with your other devices, the empty iCloud contacts are likely to overwrite the contacts on your other devices and you will lose them.
Do you have a master list of contacts on one of your devices that you are trying to replace the iCloud contacts with?

How can I delete all "hidden" contacts in iCloud?

Here's my problem. iCloud stores old contacts, maybe ones I emailed once or twice. I heard of this issue months ago, and to remedy, all I could do was reset my phone and keep iCloud shut off so that it didn't store these old contacts.
Anyway, when I moved to ios7, I forgot this, and turned on iCloud as I got set up. I put my Gmail account in as normal. When I went to compose an email and typed in a couple letters of the person I was intending to write (from my Gmail contacts) I saw them, as well as a host of other old emails and knew it was iCloud. I confirmed this when I went into iCloud Web, which that email acct. I never used and is ermpty, and typed in the contacts in a compose message and voila, all these names appeared.
For my phone, I had to reset it again and make sure to keep iCloud off so I don't see those contacts, but this is a big issue - Apple is storing these old contacts that I want obliterated. There are personal reasons I deleted those contacts, and in the case of iCloud, it imported an address book from an old employer and none of those folks I ever want to see again.
Same for texting on the phone, I've noticed that if you delete a contact, they still live in the phone. I don't understand why we can't obliterate these. I don't get why Apple is insistent on us keeping these old contacts in our lives...

Have you already tried to delete the contacts with the following steps:
1. sign in at www.cloud.com
2. open "Contacts"
3. click on the little "Settings" cog wheel icon in the lower left hand corner
4. choose "select all"
5. and then choose "delete"

How can I delete all my contact card "custom images"?

Hi,
My contact images have been (mysteriously) randomly mixed... I just can't delete them one by one because there are hundreds and hundreds of them.
How can I delete them all?
This situation is also verified in my iCloud contacts, which is obvious since my computer, iPhone, iPad and iCloud are all synced together.
Thanks in advance!

Go to SETTINGS, then ACCOUNTS AND SYNC select facebook and uncheck sync contacts and then do the same for yahoo.
back up contacts w/ backup assistant that is under accounts and sync.
then go back to SETTINGS then APPLICATIONS then MANAGER APPLICATIONS then ALL select PEOPLE then clear data. this will erase your contacts so make sure you have it backed up.
then go to SETTINGS then ACCOUNTS and SYNC then backup assistant and sync now and this should put all your contacts back on your phone without being relinked to facebook or yahoo at least i remember it being something like this when i was trying to get rid of facebook being linked to my contacts on my Tbolt.

My kids deleted all my contacts except the 3 most recent. Anyway to get them back??

Somehow my kids managed to delete all of my contacts except the 3 most recent ones. I am pretty sure they didn't go into each one and deleted them since there were more than 100. And I have no idea how only the 3 most recently added ones were kept (my kids can't read yet and the names are not alphabetical). I have an iPod Touch. I do not use a mac. I have synced it and tried to restore it to no avail. Where could they have gone?
The only thing that I found was they placed a picture in one of the contacts that they made on the Elmo Monster Maker app.
Thanks!! Really don't want to input them all again.
Also - if I end up having to enter them all again, can someone tell me how to back them up or protect them so they cannot be altered?

I was going to tell you to connect your iPod to your PC and restore from your latest backup. iTunes will make a backup of your device before each sync, so your backup would be as recent as your previous backup. The problem with that is that you've over-written your good backup by performing several sync's before posting here. Now it looks like you probably get to re-enter your contacts manually, or restore your PC from it's most recent backup...

MY IPHONE DELETED ALL MY CONTACTS - AT THE STROKE OF NEW YEAR

2012, end of the world?
Last night, New Year's eve, at midnight, my iPhone deleted ALL of my contacts. That was nearly 5000 contacts! I don't use MobileMe as far as I'm aware, and I don't want to sync to my computer lest it deletes all contacts from there too. How do I restore my contacts??!!

It will COMPLETELY restore everything to how it was the instant you backed up. However, you can back up your current state on your iPhone, restore from the previous backup, get the contacts, sync with iCloud, then restore from the latest backup to have your contacts AND diary entries.
This post shows that you are using iOS 4.3.3. To use iCloud requires that you upgrade to iOS 5.0.

I would like to know how can I delete all my contact that have been linked from yahoo and facebook? Help!!!!

Please help me It is drivng me crazy having all these contacts

Go to SETTINGS, then ACCOUNTS AND SYNC select facebook and uncheck sync contacts and then do the same for yahoo.
back up contacts w/ backup assistant that is under accounts and sync.
then go back to SETTINGS then APPLICATIONS then MANAGER APPLICATIONS then ALL select PEOPLE then clear data. this will erase your contacts so make sure you have it backed up.
then go to SETTINGS then ACCOUNTS and SYNC then backup assistant and sync now and this should put all your contacts back on your phone without being relinked to facebook or yahoo at least i remember it being something like this when i was trying to get rid of facebook being linked to my contacts on my Tbolt.

Can I access my backup files inside the airport using finder?

When I tried to open some files inside the airport extreme appear this message:
The alias “Documents” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found.
Someone know how to open this file? I didnt lose any file, I just want to open using AirPort.
Thanks

It's recommended NOT to use your AirPort Extreme for backups Mainly because the Time Machine software was not deigned to work with the AirPort Extreme and the Extreme wasn't designed to work with Time Machine. That's why Apple has the Time Capsule, for wireless backups.
Try connecting your hard drive directly to your computer.

So just downloaded 5.0 and it deleted all my contacts, how can I get it all back? I already tryed the "Back Up" or "Restore" and it's still blank on my iphone??

So just downloaded 5.0 and it deleted all my contacts, how can I get it all back? I already tryed the "Back Up" or "Restore" and it's still blank on my iphone??

You should have been syncing your contacts to your computer regularly. Just sync them back ot the iphone from your computer.

I took my daughter's new Iphone 5 to shop and they replaced it with a new one. Today she logged on to my ICloud account and deleted all my contacts and just kept the ones she wanted. Can I retrieve my contacts, please help

My daughter has a new Iphone 5 and we share an ITunes account. She logged on to my Icloud Account and deleted all my contacts this morning. Can i restore this as I now only have her friends as my contacts?

No, data like Email, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Notes are only synced between devices and not included in icloud backups, so unfortunately you won't be able to restore them. Please see also: iCloud storage and backup overview: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12519/

HT5500 How can i delete all contacts on both iphone 4 and ipad mini 2

How can I delete all contacts on an iphone 4 or ipad mini 2

Open a contact. Click "Edit". Scroll to the bottom. Choose "Delete contact". Repeat.

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