Restore groups and contacts from backup

I seem to have lost all my addressbook information, ie addressbook is blank. I do have a recent clone of my mac. How do I go about restoring all my groups / contacts back into addressbook using either my clone or time machine?

The bookmarks are kept in a file called Bookmarks.plist contained in ~user/Library/Safari. Copying this plist from your backup will also restore the bookmarks you added to the Bookmarks bar. If you customized the buttons on the toolbar, then in Safari go to View > Customize Address Bar and you can drag any of the buttons onto the toolbar.

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How do I restore groups to Contacts using time machine? I somehow managed to duplicate many groups and contacts in Contacts, so I deleted everything and tried to restore them using time machine backup from a few days before. It restored all my contacts, but none of my groups. If you select a group and click restore it will restore all the contacts in the group, but not the group itself. I had many groups with many contacts in each and would really prefer not to do this manually. I can see the groups in the time machine backup, but cannot figure out how to restore them. I know from researching online that with Address Books and previous operating systems you could go to ~Library/Applications Support/AddressBook and restore the whole file, but either this operating systems hides the necessary files or Contacts is set up differently than AddressBook was. I am using OS 10.9.5 and Contacts version 8.0 on a MacbookPro 13 inch mid 2010.

Here is what I have tried:
1. Finder>Go>(Option)Library>Address Book(highlighted)with files showing in right column. Opened Time Machine and Address Book folder is there. Tried to go back to several previous dates from several months ago. None will highlight in order for the Restore button to light up.
2. Finder>Mac HD (under Devices)>(Option)Library>Address Book (same as above). Again, cannot go anywhere back in time to highlight a date for Restore button to light up.
Note: I was able to use Time Machine to restore my Contacts with no problem. However, they are All Contacts only and did not restore my Groups. I do know how to make groups again and highlight and drag them back, but wanted to see if there was a way to restore the groups. I will post another question as to why my Time Machine won't let me restore the Address Book as well as the Contacts. Thank you for your time and patience.

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Hi, how do I remove a group and it's contacts and making sure the contacts are removed from the ALL group as well. So after I delete the group and contacts I don't want to see and contacts that were in the group that I deleted anywhere in my Address Book at all.
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Sorry but I just found my answer. If I want to delete the contacts from that specific group and I don't want the contacts in my address at all. Then I go to the group in question, select all the contacts in that group and hit the delete key and delete them. Then I can delete the group name. And all is good.

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Dear all,
I had my Nokia N80 mobile phone stolen, and the only thing that I have to restore my data is the nbu backup file ( generated by Nokia Ovi Suite).
Please, Does somebody know how to extract/export my contacts and SMS (text messages) from nbu backup file?
I appreciate any help you can give me,
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Hi cjlim,
thanks a lot for helping
> There are some 3rd party applications which will open nbu files.
> The one I am familiar with is called Noki and it is available from nokisoft.com.
Please, Do you know any free/GNU solution?
I couldn't extract/export all data that I need using Noki due to the free edition limitations =/
Does Nokia Ovi Suite support reading and export user data from its backup file?
> if you are planning on replacing it with another Nokia
It is not the case, I am planning to buy an Android phone
thanks a lot,
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The following has instructions for transferring to a new iPhone via either iCloud or iTunes: Transfer content from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a new device - Apple Support

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1: Choose iTunes backup and scan it
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Key Features:
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Part 1. Directly scan and retrieve deleted contacts from iPhone backup files
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Part 2. Scan and extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone/iPod/iPad
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c) Do backup well
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2 Recover Message, contact, note, calendar, call history, voice memo, photo, video, voicemail App Data etc
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4 Retrieve data from encrypted iTunes Backup
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