Restore Deleted iCloud Contacts

I unclouded 1 of my iPhones a few monthes ago. Yesterday, on my clouded iPhone, I deleted contacts. My other iPhone re-clouded (somehow) and also had those contacts deleted. I backup my clouded iPhone on my Macbook Pro weekly, and I have Time Machine for my Macbook Pro. I currently have Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro. How can I retrieve the deleted contacts?

On your Mac, using your Time Machine back up.
    •    Disconnect from the Internet
    •    Restore from backup
    •    Export the contacts (don't archive) to your desktop
    •    Re-enable your Internet connection (contacts will disappear from your address book)
    •    Import the contracts you have exported to your desktop

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I found the solution, i just tried it and it worked, hence thought of sharing it, to save you guys buying apps and etc.
Case : In iCloud settings, i turned Contacts OFF and it asked to delete and i agreed, only then to realise that it was the wrong account, i wanted to turn off email contacts but instead chose iCloud.
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2. Enter your Apple ID credentials ( same used in iphone )
3. Select Contacts.
4. Select All contacts ( By pressing CMD+A )
5. After all contacts are highlighted, on the below left corner, click on the Options.
6. Select Export contacts vcf.
7. It will automatically download to the Downloads folder.
8. Automactically Contacts app will open and ask if you would like to import this contacts on ur MAC. Select NO.
9. Locate the Export contacts.vcf in Download folder, select it , right click it, and share it through Email.
10. Send an email to yourself.
11. Open the email, open the attachment ( which would the contacts )
12. Select Add all contacts, select as New contacts.
13. All contacts will be added automatically, only the photos will dissappear.
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I'm facing a bit of a problem here.
I had two separate backups, each containing different data, one using itunes and one using icloud.
Once I had my new iphone I restored using icloud first, faced no problem there. I then restored using itunes, you know to get the other data. this deleted the data from the first icloud restore.
I beleive I did this they wrong way, any way I can fix it?
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ckuan wrote:
Next time do backups on both (iCloud and iTunes) so that the data is the same.
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Thank you for participating in the Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like some contacts have been lost. I know losing data can be stressful, and it's good that you had a backup in iTunes.
If you receive a message that there is not enough free space to restore the backup, I recommend going through the steps in this article:
If you can't back up or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod using iTunes - Apple Support
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