ISync deleted local copy of Address book?

Hello,
I did a Sync today and afterward the local copy of my address book is gone. It is still on dot-Mac. Just not on this machine. How do I get my contects back on this machine?

It happened also to me, and I had support from Apple. You should reset the iSync information on your computer (advanced tab in the .Mac system preference) and choose the option of restoring everything from the .Mac database.
Hope it helps
-- claudio

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Ok, I found a clue at Message « Refreshing contact groups and calendar information... » in the forum and finally resolved the problem. See the thread for the solution. The clue was to "reset sync data". See details for how to do this and how to deal with the "grayed out" button.

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