Lost all my contacts in my address book

I am running 10.2.8 All my contacts just disappeared from my address book (no crash or anything unusual). Can anyone give me advice on how to get them back? Or if it is possible. Thank you for any help.

BuckisCool:
Yes, as you are running Leopard you can bring it back using Time Machine. You can check out either in the forum links below. You can bookmark the first one for future reference.
10.5 Leopard forum
Time machine forum
jfsac:
I can't remember the 10.2 nature of AddressBook, but hoping it is similar to 10.3, have a look in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
where you should see a file called AddressBook.data. With any luck there should also be AddressBook.beforesave or AddressBook.previous.
Just to be safe first of all, select the whole folder AddressBook, and copy it and paste it to some other location, say in your Home directory and rename it AddressBookCopy.
If you do have an AddressBook.previous, then opening the Address Book application itself, does 10.2.8 give you the option under File of Revert to Database Backup?
If it does try that.
If that option is not there, then close the AddressBook Application and then back in your Finder at the AddressBook files location, assuming you have AddressBook.previous sitting there, then;
1. change the name of AddressBook.data to AddressBook.dataOLD
2. then change the name of AddressBook.previous to AddressBook.data
Open up AddressBook and see if your contacts have been restored. I hope this allows you to get your contacts back.

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