Time Machine - I can't restore the my Address Book!
I had a problem with MobileMe - it basically deleted all my Address Book, iCal and Mail.
I've tried restoring my Address Book from my most recent back up but it doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help?
Sorry - have sorted this now!
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I hate to admit how much time I have spent on this issue. I have been trying to separate just the "lists" from within my T-Bird address book, and export them (again, just the names on those individual lists) into a csv or tab delimited file, so I can import it into one of the newer mail programs.
Honestly I have been trying to figure out my way around this for years. "Lists" have always been clunky and difficult to work with. Lots of unpredictablity, and you can only go so long in the list before it will no longer send, and you need to create a new one. I send these out for a business, with some customers going back ten years or more.
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Paul Kamp, ChicagoThis add-on may help:
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
I've had this add-on for so long that I can't remember what it does and does not provide.
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How can one restore a trashed address book?
Hi,
My daughter recently upgraded her iPhone to the version 3.0 software.
When she finished the upgrade she said that all of the addresses appeared twice.
She deleted the dups but it appears that that deleted all of the entries...
Her address book was completely empty... and her mobile me address book was
also trashed.
I emailed my address book backup and she installed it but the only relevant addresses
are family members.
I seem to remember that iTunes did a 'backup' during the upgrade process.
Is it possible to 'restore' from the backup ( even though she has replaced contents
of the address book with my address book data and her address book 'syncs' with
mobileme)?
Thanks,
JerryV.K. wrote:
Jerry Levan1 wrote:
Hi,
My daughter recently upgraded her iPhone to the version 3.0 software.
When she finished the upgrade she said that all of the addresses appeared twice.
She deleted the dups but it appears that that deleted all of the entries...
Her address book was completely empty... and her mobile me address book was
also trashed.
I emailed my address book backup and she installed it but the only relevant addresses
are family members.
I seem to remember that iTunes did a 'backup' during the upgrade process.
itunes is not a backup program and doesn't make backups. I don't know what you mean here.
Is it possible to 'restore' from the backup ( even though she has replaced contents
which backup? do you have one? or are you talking about mobileme? if you have a backup you can restore AB from it. quit AB and restore the folder /users/username/library/application support/address book. if you don't have a backup there is nothing to restore from and your AB data is gone. I suggest you start backing up to prevent such problems in the future.
iTunes does have a Backup and Restore option.
Right click on the iPhone icon in the Devices sidebar that appears when the
iphone is connected to your mac and a context menu appears where you can choose
to Backup, Restore and other options.
Note that there is a 'Restore' Button on the Summary Page also....
I guess the question is "Does a Backup also backup the Address Book data?"
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How can I delete the entire address Book database?
I have problems with Address Book, the database is "busted" and it will not open anymore, it just freeze. How can I delete it?
Remove this from /Users/username/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
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Can you rename the Personal Address Book and the Collected Address Book?
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