ICloud screwed up my contacts and MobileMe docs!

iCloud duplicated contacts in my MAC Address Book and deleted almost every contact on my iPhones and iPad. It also deleted my files in MobileMe.
1. I use MS Entourage. My entourage contacts haven't been affected, but Address Book duplicated every one. I deleted a couple of the obvious duplicates (the ones not similar in Entourage), and they were deleted on my iPhones & iPad....so I stopped. That was a couple days ago. Today, about 900 of my 1,100 contacts have been deleted on my iPhones and iPad ;-( Suggestions?
2. All of my MobileMe documents have disappeared. Where did they go? I paid for this service. Do I get my money back?
I am not impressed with iCloud yet......

Did you turn on cloud on your device? Sounds like you did not do your icloud right.

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All my contacts and photos from my iPhone and from my ICloud webpage are gone.
I have an ICloud backup from yesterday morning so i tried restoring, but my contacts disappeared again after a few seconds. It says that i have 1000 photos, but I can't see them. All the pictures are grey and when I click on one it just says "loading" and nothing happens.
I kept getting a message to enter my ICloud password, so i did and maybe that could be the reason, or maybe it's because I charged my phone on my new macbook and it somehow deleted it all.
I don't have an ITunes backup, but if I have an old ICloud backup, shouldn't it be possible to get it all back?
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Photos don't restore from back up, they restore after back up has completed, so it's quite normal to have to wait a while, especially if you don't have a reliable network.
To restore from a back up made through iTunes, follow these instructions.
To restore from a back up made through iCloud, try the following:
The difficulty in restoring iCloud data from a back up is that the back up is older than the current version on iCloud and anything that is restored gets removed again when an iCloud sync occurs.
Ensure the device is connected to your local network.
Start the restore from iCloud back up.
Allow the devices settings to restore (watch for the confirmation of completion).
As the apps begin to restore pull the connection to your router WAN port (the one that goes to the telephone point).
Wait for the time out confirmation.
Navigate to settings > iCloud and turn off contact syncing (keep contacts when prompted).
Reconnect the router to the internet and let the restore process complete.
Delete any iCloud contacts from iCloud.com on a computer.
Navigate to settings > iCloud and turn on contact syncing (merge contacts when prompted).
May I suggest that you carry out a back up to iTunes before you try anything, that way should things become even worse, you can at least restore back to where you are now.

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I went ahead and connected her phone to iCloud. As recommended by the "no warning about the problems that lie ahead" encouraging message.
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Apple engineers spent a day and restored everything but the last 2 months of data (irreplaceable data).
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the obvious answer is that iCloud is not dependable..it is buggy..and either there are only two possible reasons Apple will not respond to my inquiries....they know why the data was lost but won't reveal it or two, they don't know and that scares them even more....but, it is a crappy thing not to even respond to me in over 2 weeks.
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I just enable icloud backup for my contacts and now my contacts are gone. I sthis just another new operating software problem.

I udated to the new operating system about one week ago. Not too many problems at first.
Yesterday, for no reason, I lost all of my bookmarks in Safari. Now it won't even let me do book marks at all.
With this in mind, I thought I should probably enable Icloud to backup my Contacts. Big mistake ......Now every thing that was in my contacts is gone.
I can't tell you how upset I am. I hope there is a fix for this and soon.

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SaltSeaShark,
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