How do i recover my old address book?

i backed up my phone 4s to get a new one i synced contacts with yahoo and all my contacts deleted out of phone and computer when i did it. is there any way i can get the old address book back

Hi Andrea, see if on your Mac you have this file & what size it is...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data.previous
Or if in AB's File Menu you have Revert to AB Backup.

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Hi all, I've searched the net about my problem but with no result.
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As it's been 3 months, you probably have resolved this by now, but I had a similar problem today and resolved it with help from a tech at the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store.
If you ever backed up your "Library" folder from your old Mac, it contains the "Application Support" folder which in turn contains the "Address Book" folder.
On your new iMac, running Lion:
1)open Finder
2)select "Go" on the menu
3)with the "Go" window open, press and hold down the "Option" key on your keybord. Doing this will expose the hidden "Library" folder.
4) in the Library folder you will find "Application Support"
5) in the "Application Support" folder, you will find the "Address Book" folder
6) assuming you have the old "Address Book" folder from within the backed-up "Library Folder" from you old iMac, delete the "Address Book" folder on your new iMac and copy your old backed-up Address Book folder to the "Application Support" folder in its place.
7) Open the Address Book application and you should see your contact records.
I just finished doing this and it worked for me.
Cheers

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I upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard. Before installing Snow Leopard, I backed all data with Super Duper because I knew the hard drive would be wiped before the install. I can find the old address book backup in a folder under Super Duper but I cannot get the Address Book to open it. Is there another way or worse case is there a way to dump the data out of AddressBook.data so that I could re-enter it in the new version?
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Start up using 10.4 on the external drive. Then open the Address Book and under File>Export select Address Book Archive. Then when you've restarted in 10.6 find the Address Book Archive on the external drive and move it to your new hard drive. Then open Address Book and under File>Import select the Address Book Archive.

Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.

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Subject: Re: - Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.
Date: August 25, 2014 at 9:46:01 AM EDT
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Old Entourage is POP and new Mavericks MAIL is IMAP I believe. I don;t know how to export in the forms you mention. Frances

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Relax. Your address book database is corrupted.
If you are syncing your Contacts with MobileMe or something else, disable it for now.
Backup your address book by going to File>Export>Address Book Archive.
Quit Address Book.
Open your Library by holding down the Option (alt) key while selecting the Go menu in Finder. Select Library. Navigate into your Application Support/AddressBook folder and delete the addressbook-v22.abcddb file.
Open Address Book. It will recreate the database from the raw data.
See how that works. If it is ok, then reenable syncing and see how that works.

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Forgive me if I'm going over old ground but there seem to be a number of threads to do with Address Book syncing, but I haven't managed to find a definitive answer, so here goes ...
I have an iPad [3] under iOS.5.1and an OSX.6.8 quad-core i7 iMac and I sync them via iTunes.
Everything, absolutley everything, syncs just fine, Calendars, Photos, etc. etc. - except, that is, for Address Book and Contacts.
The iMac Address Book is fully up to date, yet the version on the iPad is not only an old version, but a version which hasn't been current since before the iPad was bought and first sync'd!
Bizarre!
In an attempt to correct this, I unchecked the iTunes "Info > Sync Contacts button and resync'd.
The ipad Contacts book was empty - which is what I expected.
i then checked the button again and resync'd - and the old Address Book data was resync'd!
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So, my friends, why does iTunes not show the current Address Book indiviudal cards and Groups?
From where should it be getting it's information and how can I ensure that it does get the latest version?
If there is a rogue old copy somewhere, what could it be called and how can I find it and delete it and then, perhaps amend the default path to the correct version?
All software and apps on both devices are fully up to date at the time of posting this heartfelt crie de coure!
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Well, eventually I had to go to the Level 2 (or whetver they are called) AppleCare geeks to get this resolved, as the "normal" guys couldn't resolve it.
After much "try this ...", "try that ..." and "try the other ..." they narrowed the problem down to a corrupt Address Book Group header in my iMac's Address Book.
It appears impossible to find out just which of my 55 Group headers was corrupt and the only way around it was to export all Contacts individually as vCards, dlete every Group and individual card entry in the Addreess Book and reimport all the vCards - and then somewhat tediously recreate all my Groups again from scratch.
It took around two and a half hours on the phone to AppleCare and forever to recreate the Groups, but at least it solved the problem!
Whether this helps anyone else i cannot tell, but if you have a bizarre syncing pronblem it might be worth looking at this as a solution.
But take my tip: before embarking on this, make an entry in the Notes section of each card so that you know to which Group or Groups a card belongs because it was a feat of memory way beyond me to remeber all of them and I still have the odd orphan in there awaiting a home!

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My mistake - my groups are there! They transferred perfectly. Still getting used to my wonderful new machine. Sorry to bother you!

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I now have Mac mini intel Snow Leopard but need to get my old address book off of my old power pc HDD that was OS Tiger.
I cannot import them into my new address book.
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I'm not clear whether what you just said is that you copied the address book data from the Address Book data folder in your Tiger $HOME/Library/Application Support/AddressBook whilst solely in the Finder environment, or that you had exported the data from the Tiger Address Book application or if you mean you that you did is what I suggested you try. I don't think what you said you did is what I suggested. So how about giving that a try?
Can you boot into Tiger now?
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If so, can you select a group and see a list of all the address cards that belong to it?
If so, can you select them all?
If so, can you drag it to the Desktop (or to a flash drive, or to the Snow hard drive)?
If so, what is it named? Something like "Alice Allison and 43 others.vcf?"
If so, can you rename it to the {name of the group}.vcf?
If so, can you now open that vcf file with Text Edit and read it?
Does it look similar in format to:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:Alice Allison
EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=HOME;type=pref:[email protected]
EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK:[email protected]
TEL;type=WORK;type=pref:201-555-1212
TEL;type=WORK;type=FAX:402-555-1212
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:Bob Baer
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
(Don't save when you close/quit)
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Now once you boot back into Snow Leopard can you open one (or more) of these {name of group}.vcf cards in Text Edit, can you still read it(them)? And they look like the same sort of format?(Again, don't save when you close/quit)
Once you open address book, have you manually created the new groups there in the application ("+" at bottom of left column, type group name)?
If so, can you drag the file icon of one of your newly created group "mega-vcf" cards into the Address Book window and drop it on top of the appropriate group icon (that you just created manually) in the left column of the Address Book window?
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