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<blockquote data-quote="wonfuji" data-source="post: 858325" data-attributes="member: 76318">Recovered files #1Ran across this the other day.&nbsp; A friend was doing some editing of her Address Book (OS X 10.4.11 on G4 Powerbook 1.25 Ghz).&quot;All of a sudden&quot; she reported &quot; all the entries vanished.&nbsp; Just gone.In her trash I found a series of &quot;recovered files #1&quot;, &quot;recovered files #2&quot;...etc. folders.&nbsp; Each had a number of items in them but there was an interesting one that went &quot;Trash/UserName/Addr244/...&quot; and inside this were a number of number folders each containing a vCard.&nbsp; The &quot;Addr244&quot; differed in each folder.&nbsp; After some study we determined that each &quot;Addrxxx&quot; folder contained a different number of sub folders, and each &quot;Addrxxx&quot; corresponded to a GROUP in her address book.So we added a new group in AddressBook then dragged the &quot;Addrxxx&quot; folder into it - the vCards were added to the main library and the group.&nbsp; Repeated this procedure through &quot;recovered files #7&quot;.&nbsp; Lived through the &quot;Duplicates&quot; warning on import.&nbsp; She eventually go her AddressBook back into some kind of order.Interestingly each vCard had a number of Categories entry in its notes field that seemed to correspond to previous group membership.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wonfuji, post: 858325, member: 76318"] [b]Recovered files #1[/b] Ran across this the other day. A friend was doing some editing of her Address Book (OS X 10.4.11 on G4 Powerbook 1.25 Ghz). "All of a sudden" she reported " all the entries vanished. Just gone. In her trash I found a series of "recovered files #1", "recovered files #2"...etc. folders. Each had a number of items in them but there was an interesting one that went "Trash/UserName/Addr244/..." and inside this were a number of number folders each containing a vCard. The "Addr244" differed in each folder. After some study we determined that each "Addrxxx" folder contained a different number of sub folders, and each "Addrxxx" corresponded to a GROUP in her address book. So we added a new group in AddressBook then dragged the "Addrxxx" folder into it - the vCards were added to the main library and the group. Repeated this procedure through "recovered files #7". Lived through the "Duplicates" warning on import. She eventually go her AddressBook back into some kind of order. Interestingly each vCard had a number of Categories entry in its notes field that seemed to correspond to previous group membership. [/QUOTE]

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