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Restoring address book contacts after downgrading
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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1643335" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>In your existing SL Address Book, do you have any entries?</p><p></p><p>Even if you do, create a new address entry and save. And do an export to save, just in case. Then navigate to your Users/[username]/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/ and see if the Address Book folder is actually there and when opened, you should see a file/folder with the recent Modified Date. That will confirm that that Address Book is your current working Address Book folder.</p><p></p><p>Then I'd replace it with the old folder from the same path and the same name from your Time Machine backup if possible that would have all the contacts you want.</p><p></p><p>No guarantee it will work, and at least a restart may be needed after any replacing, and don't move stuff while the Address Book app is running, but good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1643335, member: 175845"] In your existing SL Address Book, do you have any entries? Even if you do, create a new address entry and save. And do an export to save, just in case. Then navigate to your Users/[username]/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/ and see if the Address Book folder is actually there and when opened, you should see a file/folder with the recent Modified Date. That will confirm that that Address Book is your current working Address Book folder. Then I'd replace it with the old folder from the same path and the same name from your Time Machine backup if possible that would have all the contacts you want. No guarantee it will work, and at least a restart may be needed after any replacing, and don't move stuff while the Address Book app is running, but good luck. [/QUOTE]
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