I lost all my contacts in Address Book

I imported contacts from Yahoo to my Apple contacts and now there are no contacts in my address book in Thunderbird. It's completely empty. How would I import my contacts from Apple contacts to Thunderbird address book?

("File -> Use Mac OS X Address Book"
There is also a mac security setting I saw discussed on the apple support forums, but I do not recall what it is.

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    Address Book duplicated my contacts two or three times, and it also created around 60,000 empty contacts. I have been able to clean the Entourage contacts, which only suffered from duplication but not from new empty entries.
    I tried to delete the Address Book duplicate and empty entries. The easy way out, I thought, was to Select All and delete. It does not work. Given I have ended with around 80,000 contacts, after I Select All, and try to delete, the program hangs, and I have to Force Quit the Address Book application.
    I tried to locate the Address Book file where contacts are stored, but I have not found an obvious name that would point to it, nor have I read anything about such file in the different discussion forums. So no success on this.
    I have even used scripts in the past for deleting duplicates and merging contacts in Entourage, but I have not found one for Address Book that could take care of the massive number of empty entries with "No Name".
    So, is there a way to delete all my contacts in Address Book?

    There are two possibilities you can try:
    1. Delete all your duplicate entries. You can try downloading and running this Applescript Remove Duplicates, which will create a group named Duplicates in Address Book, from which you should be able to delete those entries, by selecting the Group, then in the next column to the Right, select all the entries and choose Delete Cards from the Edit menu.
    2. If that doesn't work, you can do this:
    1. Quit Address Book if it's running.
    2. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook and delete an of these files/folders you find there:
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    • Address Book - xxxxx.abbu
    • AddressBook.data
    • AddressBook.data.beforesave
    • AddressBook.data.previous
    • Images
    • LastImport.plist
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    Hi,
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    Any ideas how I might get all my contact data back, please?
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    Update:
    I have used Time Machine to replace the Address Book app with the app that was running satisfactorily a few hours ago, but it has made no difference whatever. I still have a completely blank book.
    Is there a data file somewhere I could re-load using Time Machine?

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    yes, i did too.. will probably just try to restore them from the iphone sync.

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    Huh, well I just poked around in Address Book (on the Mac) for a while, and it (then) became convinced that it was time for a save. So I did (File->Save) And then the synch found the rest. So odd, though. I know that one of the contacts missing was the first one I entered! Between this and very funky behavior after importing vCard files from google (which was so bad I had to wipe the whole thing out), I can't say I'm so impressed with Address Book.

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    I've sync'd my iPad a few times in an attempt to get all my contact from the Address book, but it will only sync 35 f them and not the 130+ I have in address book.
    Any ideas on that one?
    Message was edited by: boxer570

    I have the weirdest thing going. I create a contact on my iPad, sync with my Airbook, it does not show up in the Airbook but is still in the iPad. Then I sync with my iPhone and guess what, it appears in the iPhone but still not in the Airbook.
    Does not matter which ticks I click in iTunes, same thing happens over and over.
    I had moved to iCloud 2 weeks ago but it started doing the same thing Mobile-Me used to do and so I turned everything off.
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  • Lost all contacts in Address Book. How can I restore them?

    I have inadvertently deleted all my contacts from Address Book, as a result of trying to delete them all from MS Outlook. (I deleted them from Outlook and they all vanished from Address Book too)
    I gather I can restore them using Time Machine, which I have set up on a Time Capsule, but I've never used it before.
    What is it that I restore to get my contacts back into Address Book please? I have tried restoring Address Book itself, but that doesn't seem to restore my contacts.

    restoring the address book, restores the application but not the files.
    Launch Address Book application and while opened, Launch the Time machine by clicking on its icon on the dock. Go back in time, confirm if you see all your contacts. This is what you need to establish and KNOW first else forget Time machine since its not there.
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    After instaling Microsoft Messanger 5.1.1, all my contacts in address book were gone. Is there a way to recover then?
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  • Lost contacts in address book

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    I figured out what I did wrong and the updating the rule actually seemed to be a coincidence (although I acidentally set a rule to mark everything as a color and even after deleting it it the color won't go away). I guess I renamed my home folder earlier, and didn't know that it would create a problem. I found this website:
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    There are two default address books in Thunderbird. Both of these address books can be copy pasted between mail accounts.
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    ''Collected Addresses '' is called '''history.mab'''
    These are stored in your Profile folder in the mail account name. But it would need your old mail account to be intact in order to copy anything from it to another mail account.
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    * C:\Users\Windows user name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\Profile name\ mail account name
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    You could simply recover it. Info here:
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_deleted_mail_accounts
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    sorry where do I find the sync history to reset in itunes?
    so if i understand you if i have only 100 contacts on my laptop and 500 on my itouch and i sync the two those 500 will go over to the laptop from the touch with no special resetting or instructions other than hitting the sync button.
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  • Lost all my contacts in Mac address book.  Tried syncing my iPhone/iPad contacts to Mac is not working.  Please help

    Lost all my contacts in Mac address book.  Tried syncing my iPhone/iPad contacts to Mac via iTunes and is not working.  Please help

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    Sync between MacBookPro and iPhone 3G does not sync properly.  Calendars duplicate events but worse is that only contacts from Address book from letter T onwards sync.  Any contacts on iPhone which are not on Mac are lost during sync.
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    None of this really resolves the issue with how the iTunes databases are becoming corrupted on the apple devices though, so it is very likely to happen again until they fix it.  I have been unable to determine if there were any specific actions or conditions which caused the corruption to happen in the first place.
    Might be worth another call to Apple support, or dropping in the local Apple store if you have one near by.

  • Lost contacts from address book with update

    lost contacts from address book with update to OSX 9.3  How do I get them out of cloud back into address book?

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  • How to recover lost contacts from address book with isync.

    Hi everyone,
    I've just lost all my contacts even in my Nokia N95 when I use iSync. I've deleted my contacts manually in my address book to make a refresh sync with my Nokia. After I conected again and start sync, it deleted all my contacts on my Nokia... I am very dissapointed and angry with Apple.
    Can you guys help me bring back my 500 contacts in my address book so I can put back in my Nokia as well?
    Thank you in advance.
    Matt

    Not to my knowledge.  As I see it you now are in a position of manually recreating you contact list or as I previously suggested engage a professional in data recovery with no guarantee of 100% or any recovery.
    I wish it were otherwise.
    Ciao.

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