I just lost my address book folders all except one. Any help available?

I was inputting information into an address in my address folder. I sent and email to this person and went back to the address book and Only one folder was available. Where did my other folders go? Can I get them back? I had a lot of information in my address book and I'll be lost without it.

If you have mobile me it's has a glitch that deletes your contacts. uggh. However if you have a back up you can get them back. Here is what Apple told me and it worked. 1. turn off the internet on your computer. go to your time machine icon and go back into time - a time in which you had the contacts (a day ago, a week etc). go the house on the left that has your username. go to application support and grab your address book and drag it to the desktop. that makes a copy of your address book. Close time machine.
2. Open your hard drive (up in the right corner of your screen) go to username (little house on the left)find Application support and drag the address book on your desktop to the application support file. IMPORTANT: CHECK TO MAKE SURE ON YOUR COMPUTERS THAT YOUR CONTACTS ARE THERE. IF NOT, STOP. CONTACT APPLE.
3. go to System Preferences. Turn on the internet
go to mobile me. Sync contacts with mobile me - MANUALLY - REALLY IMPORTANT: you want to make sure that you are syncing from the computer to mobile me (COMPUTER SCREEN TO THE CLOUD). Then hit replace. IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE YOUR CONTACTS ARE NOW VISIBLE ON YOUR MOBILE ME CONTACTS BUTTON BEFORE PROCEEDING
4. On your iphone go to settings. go to mail-calendars etc go to mobile me account and turn off contacts. It will ask you if you want to delete the info on the iphone and the answer is yes (don't be scared you are replacing with the info on your computer that you just updated). It will say something like turning off contacts. Wait a few moments, like 5. Turn the contact back on.
That should do it.

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