Comments on: Recover corrupted Address Book data http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/03/22/recover-corrupted-address-book-data/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Brady J. Frey http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/03/22/recover-corrupted-address-book-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1918 Brady J. Frey Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:06:58 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/03/22/recover-corrupted-address-book-data/#comment-1918 There's also a quick fix if you can, but that depends on if the file is there. Address Book by default makes a little backup of itself before you start updating files. So if you go into: Users > (your user) > Library > Application Support > Address Book You'll see two files: AddressBook.data AddressBook.data.previous If data is corrupted, trash it, and rename the previous one to just say .data instead of .data.previous Voila, you have your old addresses since the last time you updated. Now if you haven't updated in a while, you're in trouble:) Regardless, always backup your data, SuperDuper is an excellent program to do this! There’s also a quick fix if you can, but that depends on if the file is there.

Address Book by default makes a little backup of itself before you start updating files. So if you go into:
Users > (your user) > Library > Application Support > Address Book

You’ll see two files:
AddressBook.data
AddressBook.data.previous

If data is corrupted, trash it, and rename the previous one to just say .data instead of .data.previous

Voila, you have your old addresses since the last time you updated. Now if you haven’t updated in a while, you’re in trouble:)

Regardless, always backup your data, SuperDuper is an excellent program to do this!

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