I lost my contacts from my mac how do i restore them?

I lost mall of my contacts from my contact book, how do I restore them?

Hi WolfjackLucy,
THe best thing to do is check your icloud settings to ensure your syncing your contacts with icloud.
Good luck.
Dr. C.

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I caught my phone 4. Had to buy a new one, lost all contacts, and calendar photos. how can I recover them

I caught my phone 4. Had to buy a new one, lost all contacts, and calendar photos. how can I recover them?

What does "I caught my phone 4" mean?
All contacts, calendars, photos etc should be on your computer as the iphone is designed to be synced to your computer.
Just sync them to your new iphone.
iPhone: Transferring information from your current iPhone to a new iPhone

My iphone 4 was in airplane mode - when i turned it back on all my contacts had disappeared. How do i restore them?

My iphone 4 was in airplane mode - when i turned it back on all my contacts had disappeared. How do i restore them?

See earlier post by tt2
https://discussions.apple.com/message/7217190#7217190

I downloaded an upgraded version and now my contacts are gone. How can I restore them?

I donwloaded an upgrade and now my contacts are gone. How do I restore them?

Contacts are designed to be synced to a supported application on the computer or a cloud service.
Have you failed to utilize the device as designed?

Lost all of my contacts overnight somehow. How do I restore them to my iphone from icloud?

Help! I woke up this morning, phone had lost all of my contacts somehow. Just gone. How do I restore them from my icloud or itunes?

settings - icloud - contacts - on

HT204053 I somehow erased all my contacts from my IPHONE, how can i export them from icloud to my phone?

I somehow erased all my contacts from my iPhone, how can I export my contacts from my icloud account from my PC?

joephilipose,
If the contacts are still in Address Book on your computer, but just not on the phone, you can tell iTunes to force replace the contacts on your phone with those from your computer. You can do this by going into the Info tab when your iPhone is connected, and checking the Contacts box under the Advanced section at the bottom of the page.
You may also want to backup your Address Book information as well. It's a good idea to make periodic backups of your contact and calendar information in case information accidentally gets deleted or changed. You can find out how to backup your Address Book data here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad961.html
To backup your iCal information, follow the steps in this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iCal/3.0/en/9889.html
Hope this helps,
Jennifer B.

My contacts were lost when updating to ios5. How do I restore them? Verizon could not help me.

I persuaded my wife to upgrade to an iphone from a blackberry last march. She upgraded to iphone in March of this year. It has worked fine until the recent ios5 upgrade. After upgrading, she lost all of her contacts from the iphone. She is not happy with me, and I'm in need of help in finding a way to restore her contacts. She has worked with the Verison rep for several hours to no avail. It sounds like--as part of the problem solving--she was advised to do a hard reset of her iphone. She did not purchase an extended warranty from Apple, so she has no current warranty.
Could anyone help me with restoring the lost contacts to iphone caused by the ios5 upgrade?
Thanks,
Dan

assuming she had backed up the old iphone to itunes all she needs to do is restore from the back up of the old phone via itunes on the computer.

MY system folder, including hidden folders are littered with duplicate folders and files with the suffix (from old Mac) How do I remove them

I have a Macbook Pro running Leopard 10.5.8. I had a problem with my my operating system (my fault, I moved a file I shoudnt have) couldnt boot up but was able to boot up from a backup. I managed to repair my original system except now all the system folders, including hidden folders are littered with duplicate folders and files with the suffix (from old Mac). For the most part the dupes are an exact copy, but not always. I want to remove them to free up space and cant imagine duplicate folders in the /system/library are not hindering my computer. But I dont know where to start and am afraid of doing irreparable damage. Any ideas

pacull,
Use iCal>View>Show Notifications to choose what to do with the notification.

Since recently updating my phone i have lost 4 songs from my itunes, how do i get them back?

Since updating my phone i have lost 4 song from itunes which i have already purchased and they are no where on my computer either. Help please!

i know the update didnt remove the songs it was when the phone had to do a system restore after the update as it was a big update . the problem i have with getting them back is that they are not backed up to the computer . as me and my partner have to use the same itunes . and if we sync and backup to the computer it puts the apps on the wrong phone . so we were told not to back up or sync

TS4036 I had my ipad replaced and I restored it, but some how lost my contacts in the pad ,how do I retrieve them from icloud?

I had my ipad mini replaced and everything got restored except my contacts

Did you check to see if they are in your iCloud account on icloud.com?

My iPhone keeps deleting all my contacts. I have all of them in the iTunes backup but after a few seconds I open my phone they are being deleted. I think that's because I deleted all my contacts from iCloud. How can I keep them after I backup?

So how can I backup again on my iPhone and the contacts remain there?

Restore from itunes backup and turn on airplane mode before they gone. Turn off contacts under settings - icloud.
turn off airplane mode. Delete icloud account. Sign back in and merge contacts.

I have deleted all my photos from my mac, how can I transfer them from my iphone4 or iPad back to my mac

Can anyone help? I have by mistake deleted all of my photos on my Mac. I want to transfer the library from my iphone 4 or my ipad back to my Mac.

There is no syncing process to move synced photos from an iOS device back to a computer.
If you have only a small amount of photos you can email them to yourself.
There are third party applications available online, some free and some at cost that will pull pictures off your device and back to the computer if your number of photos is great.
In the past I have user PhoneView with great success.
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
EE

I have reinstalled windows 7 and lost my bookmarks from yesterday. How do I recover them

Ihave tried to recover from bookmarks-12-11-20.json but this doesn't seem to have them. I am looking for the bookmarks that were on my PC yesterda. I would be very grateful if you could help. They are very important to me.

Did you check one of the older JSON backups (there should be 10)?
You can also check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox Profile Folder.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file

Itunes has disappeared from my mac, how do I restore it in layman's terms only please?

Hi Littlevoice,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. This article has instructions that may help:
Troubleshooting iTunes installation on Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2311
Cheers,
- Ari

I downloaded the new OS, and my contacts have disappeared. How do I restore them?

I was not backup on icloud or my macbook.

The iphone is designed to be synced to your computer or cloud service regularly, most especially before any update/restore/etc
If you have failed to sync your contacts, then they are very likely gone.
You can try restoring from backup

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