Removing the entire Address Book

For business and personal reasons (which I am not asking you to critique or improve upon) I have 2 separate Address Books that are swap out every now and again and backed up to separate Archives.
Like this...
- Add a contact to Address Book
- Export... Archive Address Book
- Delete the ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book folder
- Quit Address Book
- Launch Address Book (it should be empty again)
- Import other Address Book
This no longer works in 10.5 for 2 reasons:-
- Addresses added through Mail do not appear until you search for them
- I cannot delete the 'AddressBook-v22.abcddb' file from Trash
(Perhaps these are related.)
Basically, what should be consistent Mac OS X behaviour of deleting prefs to start again no longer works.
What gives Apple? So many bugs in this version that it stinks. Rock on 10.5.2, 10.5.3 and 10.5.4....

I assume you did that using Tiger.
If you want to continue using your Tiger addressbook data file in Leopard then do this:
create a new folder and drag in your Tiger addressbook data file into the new folder. Then add .abbu to the new folders name, of course at the end of.... Now use import in Leopards mail and continue with your past practice.

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This add-on may help:
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
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I don't know why that didn't work - it worked for me when I tried it.
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I had the same problem and also didn't have a back-up of my SL Address Book archive. But a minute or so's mucking about I came up with this workaround:
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4) This will open up a folder also called Migration XXXX-XXX. Click the flippy triangle to the left and you'll see it contains the Contact Book archives that existed before you upgraded to Lion, including any images and most importantly the Metadata (the names, addresses etc).
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