Does anyone know how to recover an address book

i was adding addresses to address book in the form of vcards in blocks of a 100 or so and i got the beach ball which never managed to recover itself, had to force shutdown and restart and the address book had gone, does anyone know where i can recover it from, cheers in advance for any help.

This sometimes helps:
Quit Address Book.
In folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook drag file AddressBook.data to the desktop. Rename AddressBook.data.previous to AddressBook.data and restart AB. If your contacts are not back quit AB again and repeat the drag/rename process, this time with AddressBook.data.beforesave.
If you get your contacts back, now is probably a good time to use the AB menu item File/Back up Address Book.
AK

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