Can I sync without losing my contacts?

While syncing my iPad to my MBP yesterday, using iTunes, I got this message:  “Synching Address Book with yahoo will alter more than 25% of your contacts.”  I looked at "Details" and saw that syncing would remove half of my contacts, so I chose, "Sync later," the only other option.  Now that message pops up every few minutes on the laptop.  How can I sync without deleting?

Backup your existing contacts by saving them as a vCard from Addressbook, and putting them in a folder on your Mac's desktop.  At least that way if the sync does lose anything, you can always reimport, and then combine duplicates on the Mac.
Note, if you've been adding contacts to the iPad and hoping they will sync to your Mac that unfortunately is not always reliable since it can be confusing what is the source and destination.

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