My old address book is missing

I had to replace my modem & when bought my computer back up address book was empty!! How do I get my addresses back?

Replacing such hardware shouldn't remove any data.
* Is the address book the only data missing?
* Did you have to reinstall any software or move any files?
* Did you [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_backing-up-a-profile make a backup of your Thunderbird profile in the recent past]?
Your Thunderbird data is stored in [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb a profile folder].
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_address_books_between_profiles This article provides detailed information about addressbooks files].
* Are the files still there?
Having the information requested above will also help, thanks in advance.

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Transferring info from old address book to new Mac

my subtopic ought to be 'writing a subject heading that relates to the question I want to ask'. That question was;
Can anyone help me?
My last iMac died and I've got a new one. I've also got the hard drive from the old iMac, but when I try to open things from it, such as the address book, the new version opens and I can't find a way to get at the info that is in my old address book. I want to e-mail friends to tell them that I'm back on-line, but I can't get at their addresses. Advice received with thanks.

The Address Book data is stored at the following location - Home > Library > Application Support > AddressBook.
With the Address Book application quit on your new iMac, transfer the AddressBook folder from the old hard drive and place it in the same location on your new hard drive at Home > Library > Application Support.
This will replace the existing AddressBook folder in this location.
Launch Address Book and all contacts from the old drive should be completely restored.

Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.

Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can;t see a symbol for address book.

Where are addresses kept on MAIL? I don;t like the new format at all. Frances
Begin forwarded message:
From: Frances Topping <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: - Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.
Date: August 25, 2014 at 9:46:01 AM EDT
To: discussions-replies <[email protected]>
Old Entourage is POP and new Mavericks MAIL is IMAP I believe. I don;t know how to export in the forms you mention. Frances

I had to do a re-install of Thunderbird after a crash. How do I get my old address book into my new one?

I had to do a re-install of Thunderbird after a crash. How do I get my old address book into my new one? There are only a few of the contacts I had, so there must be a location where the rest are, but not sure where to look. And once I find them (with your help), how do I get them into the address book?

If you copy abook.mab or history.mab into a profile folder, they will show up as Personal Address Book and Collected Addresses. But if the mab files have names other than abook or history, they can only be imported to TB with the use of [https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html MoreFunctionsForAddressBook].

How to I get my data from my old address book?

I upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard. Before installing Snow Leopard, I backed all data with Super Duper because I knew the hard drive would be wiped before the install. I can find the old address book backup in a folder under Super Duper but I cannot get the Address Book to open it. Is there another way or worse case is there a way to dump the data out of AddressBook.data so that I could re-enter it in the new version?
Thanks
Paul

Start up using 10.4 on the external drive. Then open the Address Book and under File>Export select Address Book Archive. Then when you've restarted in 10.6 find the Address Book Archive on the external drive and move it to your new hard drive. Then open Address Book and under File>Import select the Address Book Archive.

Address book application missing!

no address book in my applications folder. when i do a search of my hard drive address book is missing. how do i reinstall it?

I don't currently have Panther installed on any of my Macs, and I cannot parallel what you have done. To the best of my knowledge this option should not be there, or at least should not be what you expect it to be.
I believe you have only used the Restore disk to restore "bundled applications" -- see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42929
and also
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300396
AB is not a bundled application, but part of the OSX.
Ernie

How to import from old address book?

Hi all, I've searched the net about my problem but with no result.
I have an old mac (a G3 iMac running 10.3.9) with a lot of contacts on its Address Book, and I do mean a lot. The computer is completely dead, but I have a copy of the contents of its internal hard disk on a new mac running Lion. My problem is importing the old contacts into the new Address Book. The file formats have changed and the old files can't be imported into the new application, they are not even recognized as addressbook files. Obviously I can't export from the old system since it's not running. The old AddressBook.data file is a terrible junk of names, addresses, telephone numbers and everything else organized in an incomprehensible way (I can't just manually copy the addresses from the file). Does anyone know how to import those contacts into the new format? Otherwise, I'll have to find somebody who owns an old system with an old Address Book application so that I can export the files from there. Thanks a lot

As it's been 3 months, you probably have resolved this by now, but I had a similar problem today and resolved it with help from a tech at the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store.
If you ever backed up your "Library" folder from your old Mac, it contains the "Application Support" folder which in turn contains the "Address Book" folder.
On your new iMac, running Lion:
1)open Finder
2)select "Go" on the menu
3)with the "Go" window open, press and hold down the "Option" key on your keybord. Doing this will expose the hidden "Library" folder.
4) in the Library folder you will find "Application Support"
5) in the "Application Support" folder, you will find the "Address Book" folder
6) assuming you have the old "Address Book" folder from within the backed-up "Library Folder" from you old iMac, delete the "Address Book" folder on your new iMac and copy your old backed-up Address Book folder to the "Application Support" folder in its place.
7) Open the Address Book application and you should see your contact records.
I just finished doing this and it worked for me.
Cheers

How do i recover my old address book?

i backed up my phone 4s to get a new one i synced contacts with yahoo and all my contacts deleted out of phone and computer when i did it. is there any way i can get the old address book back

Hi Andrea, see if on your Mac you have this file & what size it is...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data.previous
Or if in AB's File Menu you have Revert to AB Backup.

Old Address Book Cards into New Address Book

Okay, so here's the problem:
I had the first IMac with the Isight camera and the CPU died. So, I had the data backed up to an external hard drive.
So now I have the new Imac and I still have the external hard drive and I've put MOST of my old data on the new computer...but I can't import my old address book cards. . And I need some of them!
Can anyone help?

Address Book data is stored in
Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
Copy all the files in the AddressBook folder from your backup into your new iMac
Hope this helps

Need help getting the data from my old address book

Can someone tell me what file I need to copy and where to restore all my addresses from my old address book. I elected not to migrate everything to avoid problems, but that is one important and long list.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Mireille

Look in the folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ for the files containing your data, where ~ is the item in the Finder's sidebar with the house icon.
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Why does Lion KEEP reversing changes you make in address book and other applications without your consent and without wanting it to??? Plus address book will NOT import old address book contacts from Snow Lepoard 10.6 and keep them. This Lion OXS 7 is ..

Why does Lion KEEP reversing changes you make in address book and other applications without your consent and without wanting it to??? Plus address book will NOT import old address book contacts from Snow Lepoard 10.6 and keep them. This Lion OXS 7 is .. becoming very frustrating ... it will NOT keep changes made in the Address Book and it has destroyed my contacts which I only have electronically since 10.4 in my address book. I am NOT happy with this OS7 it has a lot of issues and faults. How can one stop automatic reversing of data when inputting???
Please help!
Wished I NEVER upgraded to this Lion!!!
Carmelo

Relax. Your address book database is corrupted.
If you are syncing your Contacts with MobileMe or something else, disable it for now.
Backup your address book by going to File>Export>Address Book Archive.
Quit Address Book.
Open your Library by holding down the Option (alt) key while selecting the Go menu in Finder. Select Library. Navigate into your Application Support/AddressBook folder and delete the addressbook-v22.abcddb file.
Open Address Book. It will recreate the database from the raw data.
See how that works. If it is ok, then reenable syncing and see how that works.

Old Address Book syncing with iPad via iTunes!

Forgive me if I'm going over old ground but there seem to be a number of threads to do with Address Book syncing, but I haven't managed to find a definitive answer, so here goes ...
I have an iPad [3] under iOS.5.1and an OSX.6.8 quad-core i7 iMac and I sync them via iTunes.
Everything, absolutley everything, syncs just fine, Calendars, Photos, etc. etc. - except, that is, for Address Book and Contacts.
The iMac Address Book is fully up to date, yet the version on the iPad is not only an old version, but a version which hasn't been current since before the iPad was bought and first sync'd!
Bizarre!
In an attempt to correct this, I unchecked the iTunes "Info > Sync Contacts button and resync'd.
The ipad Contacts book was empty - which is what I expected.
i then checked the button again and resync'd - and the old Address Book data was resync'd!
What is clear is that the iPad's version reflects that which is in the iTunes "Selected Groups" window and not what is actually in the Address Book, so I presume that the error lies with iTunes and/or my iMac and not the ipad iteself. The iPad is, after all, only reflecting what iTunes tells it.
So, my friends, why does iTunes not show the current Address Book indiviudal cards and Groups?
From where should it be getting it's information and how can I ensure that it does get the latest version?
If there is a rogue old copy somewhere, what could it be called and how can I find it and delete it and then, perhaps amend the default path to the correct version?
All software and apps on both devices are fully up to date at the time of posting this heartfelt crie de coure!
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Well, eventually I had to go to the Level 2 (or whetver they are called) AppleCare geeks to get this resolved, as the "normal" guys couldn't resolve it.
After much "try this ...", "try that ..." and "try the other ..." they narrowed the problem down to a corrupt Address Book Group header in my iMac's Address Book.
It appears impossible to find out just which of my 55 Group headers was corrupt and the only way around it was to export all Contacts individually as vCards, dlete every Group and individual card entry in the Addreess Book and reimport all the vCards - and then somewhat tediously recreate all my Groups again from scratch.
It took around two and a half hours on the phone to AppleCare and forever to recreate the Groups, but at least it solved the problem!
Whether this helps anyone else i cannot tell, but if you have a bizarre syncing pronblem it might be worth looking at this as a solution.
But take my tip: before embarking on this, make an entry in the Notes section of each card so that you know to which Group or Groups a card belongs because it was a feat of memory way beyond me to remeber all of them and I still have the odd orphan in there awaiting a home!

Import contacts from old address book on MacBkPro Snow Leopard into new MacBk Pro Lion

How do I import my contacts from old address book on MacBkPro Snow Leopard into new MacBk Pro Lion (on MacBkPro Retina). I can see the "AddressBook" file on the old HD (extracted from old machine--which died) and have a copy of that file on to desktop of new machine. [Copied from old HD: Users/home/Library/Application Support/Address Book]. There is an Address Book in the same location on the "MacIntosh HD" of the new machine, but some of the files in that (new) folder have different names. Risky to simply over-ride this. What should I do?

My mistake - my groups are there! They transferred perfectly. Still getting used to my wonderful new machine. Sorry to bother you!

Old Address Book on OS X Tiger

I now have Mac mini intel Snow Leopard but need to get my old address book off of my old power pc HDD that was OS Tiger.
I cannot import them into my new address book.
Any ideas please.

I'm not clear whether what you just said is that you copied the address book data from the Address Book data folder in your Tiger $HOME/Library/Application Support/AddressBook whilst solely in the Finder environment, or that you had exported the data from the Tiger Address Book application or if you mean you that you did is what I suggested you try. I don't think what you said you did is what I suggested. So how about giving that a try?
Can you boot into Tiger now?
IF so, can you launch Address Book?
If so, can you select a group and see a list of all the address cards that belong to it?
If so, can you select them all?
If so, can you drag it to the Desktop (or to a flash drive, or to the Snow hard drive)?
If so, what is it named? Something like "Alice Allison and 43 others.vcf?"
If so, can you rename it to the {name of the group}.vcf?
If so, can you now open that vcf file with Text Edit and read it?
Does it look similar in format to:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:Alice Allison
EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=HOME;type=pref:[email protected]
EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK:[email protected]
TEL;type=WORK;type=pref:201-555-1212
TEL;type=WORK;type=FAX:402-555-1212
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:Bob Baer
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
(Don't save when you close/quit)
If so, can you do the same with all the other address book entries in each of the other groups?
Now once you boot back into Snow Leopard can you open one (or more) of these {name of group}.vcf cards in Text Edit, can you still read it(them)? And they look like the same sort of format?(Again, don't save when you close/quit)
Once you open address book, have you manually created the new groups there in the application ("+" at bottom of left column, type group name)?
If so, can you drag the file icon of one of your newly created group "mega-vcf" cards into the Address Book window and drop it on top of the appropriate group icon (that you just created manually) in the left column of the Address Book window?
If so, can you now see the list of address book entries in the middle column?
If so, can you select individual address book entries in the middle column and read the card in the right column and does the data look correct?
If so, can you do the above with all the remaining group cards?

Address book categories missing

In Palm Desktop by Access, my address book catetories are missing and I can't restore them.
I created new categories and intended to re-designate the catetory for each entry, however in the list view I am not able to change the catetgories at all. And when I view the entry in a detailed view, the correct catetorie is already choose. Re-choosing the category from this view does not change the unfiled status of the entry when in the list view. So in list view, I can sort alphabetically, but I can't view individual catetories.
I have a back up that's about a week old, and I wouldn't loose that much to revert to that version, but I'd rather not if I can help it. Can anyone offer a suggestion of how to solve this problem?
Thanks,
Liz
Post relates to: Centro (Verizon)

I answered in your other post but there is no category feature on the Z30 address book.
I don't use categories in my Outlook so I can't verify that one for you.
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