What is a .abbu file? And what do I do with it?

There is a file that has appeared on my desktop with the following name: "Address Book - 2010-02-22.abbu". If I double click the file, I get a dialog box that says "Are you sure you want to replace all of the contacts in your address book with the contacts in "Address Book - 2010-02-22.abbu"? If you click Replace All, the information in this Address Book archive completely replaces the information in your address book. You can't undo this action."
What is this file? Can I put it in the trash or must I keep it? And if I must keep it, where is its proper place?
Thanks!

Thanks, Wyodor! Now...where should I put this file?

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Hallo
I try to give some exaplanation based on the previous answer.
1. Data redundancy - make sure you do not store the same information. does not make sense to have data redundanty across you Data Warehouse. this is also a cost. just sotre the same information one time if you get all what you need.
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Biz wrote:
> Having trouble converting array to spreadsheet string, storing the
> file and coverting back to array with complex numbers
>
> I am working with a network analyzer. I have arrays made of 5 columns
> the first consisting of an integer and the next four consisting of
> complex numbers. I am converting the array into a spreadsheet string
> and then saving the file using the write characters to a file VI. That
> seems to work well as when I open the file in Excel all the data is
> there. However when I try to reverse the process, open file and
> convert back to array, I loose some of the data. Specifically the
> imaginary parts of my complex numbers are all going to zero. I have
> narrowed down the problem to be in the conversion from spreadsheet
> string to array and vice versa. I think the problem may be with the
> 'format' input to the VI. I do not have an adequate resource for this
> so I am not sure what to put in to accomplish my task. Any takers?
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Address book won't re-import .abbu file

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Here's the issue:
I accidently deleted some information I needed in my address book. I thought everything would be okay because I could just import the backup .abbu file I recently exported. I tried to import the .abbu file and it looked okay for about 3 seconds. Then, all of my conacts disappeared! I scowered the internet and found other people have had similar issues.
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There is actually a solution that will require less overall work if you have a lot of groups. The basic strategy is to get the system to copy everything with groups intact to the On My Mac contacts, and then pull everything back into iCloud. That effectively updates all the timestamps and gets around iCloud not wanting to import old contacts.
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I had 34 groups, and this saved me a lot of time over trying to work with .vcf files. It also ensures an exact restore, instead of accidental duplicates if you have contacts in multiple groups.
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