Major Bug with ADDRESSBOOK .abbu vs. iCloud

Question

Hello!
I’ve been trying to fix this issue with APPLE’s second level support here in Europe, but with no success
Which is why I’m now turning toward the community, in the hope Cupertino is reading this. Come on guys!
I presume some sort of inherited bug, either from
- me.com times – as the contacts synchronisation never really worked flawless, which forced me to use ADDRESSBOOK only locally.
- or perhaps because being partly using apple products in France and Germany (2 languages)
- or because of both reasons – don’t know.
The issue:
For the above described reasons, I administrate my contacts locally. In other word, my local ADDRESSBOOK is  the “Master” database and I don’t sync my contacts with iCloud although it would be nice, …if it worked reliably.
I do some backups at least every half year on 20XX-12-31 and 20XX-06-30. Sometimes also inbetween. Over the years, these .abbus increased their sizes up to…
2012-03-25_abbu : was 95 MB. It seems pretty normal as I gathered nearly 3000 contacts mostly including pictures or logos.
BUT ! :
in the weeks after this date, the .abbu suddenly began to grow up to 1.8 GB !!! …for no traceable reason, as I only added let’s say 200-300 new contacts. This exponential increase in size is just weird. It led to two steps:
a) I opened a copy of my 1.8 GB .abbu (context-menu/show package content) and found out a huge amount of “sub-abbus”.
Is it normal or it there some kind of bad loop occuring here and responsible for the size-increase? It’s pretty hard to find any information on .abbus. I’d like to analyse the data-structure in order to find out if the bug is sitting here. Which program is appropriate to achieve this? The ideal case would be to get a fix from APPLE itself, but even the support structure itself seems not to be provided with enough information. So, regarding “contacts syncing”, one consequence here is that I have to stay offline – for a couple of years now. Another consequence is, that I can’t purchase any iPhone or iPad before this issue is not fixed.
b) I consider my 2012-03-25_abbu as THE reliable database. In order not to lose any information, I started to backup each new contact separately. Each time I create one or do some changes on a card, I export the card as a .vcf. So, with the 2012-03-25.abbu and these additional new .vcfs, I’m pretty sure to be able to rebuild my whole contacts’ database each time after it’s been destroyed by iCloud.
Apart of the incresing size issue of the .abbu, some problems occur as soon as I connect ADDRESSBOOK with iCloud:
iCloud overwrites my local ADDRESSBOOK content instead of uploading the data. This also occurs/ed with an empty  iCloud.com account – just weird. The data is inconsistent and coming from a no identified source. Even the second level support has no explenation.
The second level support and I tried every possible approaches with test accounts and so on – e. g.:
- uploading the 1.8 GB .abbu – doesn’t work
- uploading the .vcf of the whole database (approx. 3900 contacts now) – looses the groups’ affiliations.
Resuming it all, it’s just impossible to work with an inconsistent database, because you know you loose data permanently.
Is there any chance to forward this HELP CALL to Cupertino, for someone exactly knowing the subject will hopefully find a fix, please !
Desperately yours
G
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Answer 1

so to clarify, it appears that the multitasking snapshot for the following scenario will not update: open safari and turn to landscape, exit safari using home button or multitasking bar, then double press home button. That snapshot that appears for safari doesn't ever seem to refresh. Whatever is there is stuck there and whats more it will always pop up in the actual browser for 1-2 secs the next time safari is opened after completing those steps. Im not sure when the snapshot is initially created - it must be the first ever time you close safari but as I said in my post, it also appears to be stored in iCloud backups. So I've tried:
a) hard resetting
b) clearing safari cache and history
c) resetting all settings
d) restoring from iCloud (as mentioned)
e) opening and closing closing safari using the multitasking menu (both the landscape multitasking menu that appears when you're actually in safari in landscape mode, and the multitasking menu that appear when you double press the home button on the home screen).
f) same as above except closing all tbs open in safari before then exiting.