HELP my address book has died!

I wanted to help a friend to extract her email addresses from her applemail address book. I exported her contacts to an abbu file, and then exported my own addresses to another abbu file to back mine up. Next I tried to import her abbu file, but the import didn't work and the addresses were not imported, even though it seemed to take time working. So then I tried to restore my own contacts from my own abbu file so that I could continue my own, however my own abbu file did not import back again either and now I have an empty address book. What could have gone wrong with my file import from backup?

Right-click on your backup file and choose Show Package Contents.
Open the Metadata folder and you should find lots of vCards that have lots of letters and numbers as names. If you have what appears to be all of your contacts, then your backup is ok and has what it needs.
If it does look ok, then you might try running it again. If that doesn't work, go into your username/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder and remove everything. Double-click the backup again and see if it works.
Finally, you can just use manually copy everything that is in the backup package (again use Show Package Contents) into the AddressBook folder mentioned above.
If that doesn't work, try running the Import command in AB and select the backup.
If that doesn't work I don't know what will, but perhaps restoring from another backup.

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