Delete contact cards?/lost all addresses?

downloaded Mountain Lion and now all addresses have been lost from Leopard. 7 contact cards show up with Facebook info. Can't find a way to delete them. None of the menues work.

Maybe the following thread will help?
Missing contact information: Apple Support Communities
Not to sound harsh, but this is exactly why I will not rely souly on iCloud or Time Machine and backup all my devices and computers to more than one local External Hard Drive, before Upgrading or Updating them.

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You don't, if you're referring to addresses that appear when you click the "Address" button.. Mail is just reading from the Address Book application's data. Open the standalone Address Book and you can edit and remove contacts there.
If you want to clear the list of addresses that pop up as suggestions but that are not in your address book, go to the Window menu and select "Previous Recipients". You can edit or clear that list from there.
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I have a big problem with Address Book. When ever I use cmd-X in the notes section of a contact card it deletes the whole card. Using cmd-V right away only pastes the text I intended to cut -- the missing card is apparently gone forever.
This is beyond frustrating when I loose notes that cannot be replaced.
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When you reinstall, do you also restore your contacts from a backup?
If so, you may have brought over whatever it is that is causing you problems.
First, open Address Book and create an Address Book archive (File menu, export…)
Second, go into your user/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder and delete the
AddressBook-v22.abcddb file. It is an index to the metadata (vCards).
Third, go into your user/Library/Preferences and delete the com.apple.addressbook.plist file. That is the Address Book preferences. So, you will have to edit them back to your liking if everything starts working correctly.
Now, try Address Book and see if it works ok.
If you are syncing with MobileMe, you might consider resetting sync services if the problem returns.
Also, can you post a crash report? You can find them in Console, look in the CrashReporter section under ~/Library/Logs--just copy and paste it here.

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All of a sudden I've lost all my Address Book entries. There's nothing there. I use iBackup onto .Mac, but for some reason I can't get it to restore. It keeps saying that backup fails.
Please help. Big problem.

You had no backup before upgrading to Snow Leopard, and you didn't make a backup of your Address Book?
Upgrading OS X is not something that would cause that data to disappear, so that would seem to suggest that something else is at work, such as human error. Regardless, if you're running 10.6.3 as your profile states, you should run Software Update and get 10.6.8, as it fixes a number of issues.
You can try to recover your Address Book contacts like this:
1. Quit Address Book if it's running.
2. Go to Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
3. Move the AddressBook.data file to your Desktop or to the Trash. Then, in that same folder, make a duplicate of the AddressBook.data.previous file and rename one copy simply to AddressBook.data and launch the Address Book application. If you're lucky, your data is there. If not, well that highlights the reason for making backups.

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I upgraded my OS from 10.4.11 to 10.6.3. I thought everything was fine until I opened my Address Book. Only one address appeared. I tried the suggestion made by Barney-15E to a similar post, but the results was two entries in the Address Book, mine and Apple's. I did back up my addressbook.data file before I made the OS upgrade. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I know this topic is "Answered," but I have the same problem. I upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard yesterday and lost all my addresses. I couldn't find a way to backup the address book, and hoped I wouldn't have problems.
Of course, losing all my addresses is about the only thing that went wrong (that I've discovered so far).
Am I out of luck, or is there a way to recover the data. I've tried the com.apple.whatever trick and the one here. No luck.
I've already started sending notices to people to recover as much info as possible - maybe this time I'll learn not to depend only on the computer.

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How can I delete contacts or groups from my address book? The corresponding menu items "delete contact" or "delete group" are greyed. Pressing the "delete" buttom only works for contacts. But the deleted contact isn't really erased. There remains an untitled contact at the end of the list that I cannot delete. Not very nice :-(
Does anybody knows some help?

I can't recreate that on my Mac, so I suspect something got corrupted in your preferences.
Quit Contacts.
Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library".
Then go to yor Preferences folder and and drag com.apple.AddressBook.plist to your Desktop.
Relaunch Contacts and test.

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i have 4 Apple devices that sync to my ICloud account I turned off contacts on all but one device and spent the better part of a day deleting contacts on the one device one by one turned the device off and back on . I did delete the contacts on other devices by turning off contacts I then restarted the one device and allowed a full boot. I then turned on the contacts to the other devices and joila all of the deleted contacts reappeared. So frustrating. My question is how do i access the Icloud account to delete un-wanted contacts globally?

Assuming this is icloud sync and not something like Gmail, when you edit the contacts on one device it should refresh on all devices that sync. It sometimes takes a little while depending on network connections and such.

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I can't seem to accomplish this. Each time I delete the contact's picture, it immediately reappears.
I think the picture was automatically added back when I was using Adium. (I've since swiped Adium from my computer and only use iChat and Mail.)
I've deleted a file for her contact in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/, however each time I delete that and then proceed to delete the picture from the contact, the picture not only reappears, but so does the file in this cache folder! This contact is the only one in which I am experiencing this strange behavior, and it is the only contact with a file in that cache folder. Yikes!
I've also tried deleting the contact from my iChat, and even deleting the contact from my address book and re-adding. When I re-add, the picture reappears. Grrrrrr.........
Any ideas?
Also.. this is a contact with a MobileMe account. I too have a MobileMe account. The picture crap only happens when I add their MobileMe email to the contact, and the picture deletes itself if I delete the MobileMe email. Again, this only happen with this single contact, even though I have other contacts with MobileMe addresses in my Address Book.
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Lost all Address Book info upon upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mavericks.

Contacts is empty. I did a Carbon Copy Clone before upgrading so I have the abcddb file, but not sure what to do with it to get the info into Contacts. Thanks for any input.

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it looks like I figured out the issue. My Outlook was corrupted and would not open. Apparently Lync pulls contact information from Outlook. Once I got Outlook working, Lync pulled the contact information.

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