Mail and address book contacts erased

all my contacts suddenly were gone somehow... I cannot find them anywhere... I don't know their extension to find them...
the last thing i've done before that was to install the new version of vlc media player.. then i found my desktop in a mess and all my contacts and accounts on mail and address book were gone...
they were in my address book and i have two gmail accounts and one from portugalmail associate to .mail...
I cannot recover any of them...
Help me please. Thanks

I have two users and i'm using the one i always use...
/Users/MyUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/...
AddressBook.data - 36kb
ABPerson.skIndexInverted - 8kb
AddressBook.data.previous - 24kb
AddressBook.data.beforesave - notfound
ABPerson.skIndex - 8kb same file as ABPerson.skIndexInverted
/Users/MyUserName/Applications/Application Support/AddressBook/
AddressBook.data - 712kb
ABPerson.skIndexInverted - 120kb
AddressBook.data.previous -1MB
AddressBook.data.beforesave - notfound
ABPerson.skIndex - 120KB same as ABPerson.skIndexInverted

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