HT2486 my telephone address book -- which I like to keep exclusively for my phone numbers -- keeps updating and adding my whole list of email and physical address contacts. It's clogging up my phone directory. How do I undo that without deleting all my

My phone (4s) is somehow adding all my email and physical mail address book contacts to my contacts in my phone, which I prefer to keep to telephone numbers only. How do I get all this stuff out of my telephone book and back to normal?

If renaming addressbook.data.previous to addressbook.data hasn't brought back your contacts, get rid of addressbook.data (drag it way or delete it) and rename addressbook.data.beforesave to addressbook.data
The rename process works for some people and not for others; I suspect it has to do with how soon after the problem they have tried it.
No, I didn't take your reply as being rude.
I don't know of any way of recovering anything from the skindexinverted file, and anyway I suspect it is litterally an index, and does not hold the full data. Certainly on my machine it is only 1/20th of the size of the data file.
AK

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