Lost Contacts in iPhone and Address book in Mac

Hi, I'm using iPhone 3G and just today, when I finished syncing with my Mac, I lost all the contacts I have for both. Is there a way to recover all the contacts? Or is it possible to export my contacts in entourage to my Mac address book so I can sync it in my iphone as well?
Although I'm using Mac for almost a year now, I encountered this problem just now. Please help, thanks!

Welcome to the Apple community.
I can't fully tell from the information you have provided, but I suspect your duplicates resulted from having one set of contacts in your "iCloud "account and another set of contacts in your "on my Mac" account.
I further suspect that you have then deleted the contacts from your "Icloud "account, and thereby removed them from all devices. You now need to copy the contacts from your "on my Mac" account back to your "iCloud" account and delete the originals from your "on my Mac" account. You can do this by selecting groups, selecting your "on my Mac" group, and then selecting all the contacts within it and dragging them onto your "iCloud " account.
You might also take a look at this User Tip, to ensure you understand the differences between the different accounts in Address Book before adding the contacts back.

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