Spidawebba
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I opened Address Book to find it blank - All my contacts were gone. If I search Spotlight my contacts still appear by name but when I hover the mouse I don't see the path, just the contact name and number. If I click on the contact from spotlight - Address Book opens...blank.
This wouldn't be a total loss as I have all my contacts written down.
BUT I can't add contacts back to Address Book - I tick the add button and nothing. The add contact button is untickable.
I already repaired disk permissions.
It does appear that my contacts are in the metadata folder.
I deleted the AddressBook-v22.abcddb file and opened Address Book but it was still blank and I still could not add my contacts back. I noticed that the file did rebuild itself. I restarted and still nothing changed.
There is a second file, AddressBook-v22~.abcddb, I deleted that as well and it did not rebuild itself and had no effect.
I did make a copy of the complete folder.
I can only think of a few things I've done since I last checked Address Book, but I don't see how it would create this problem
* Deleted my windows partition through bootcamp
* ran disk permissions for the first time
* had my contacts placed on my ipod
I don't think there was anything else. Oh, yes - I purged my computer of all hidden google related files. I had already done this before but it turned out there were more more more. I did Not have my contacts synced with a google account nor do I do any syncing with any mobile devices/clouds at all.
In the guest account I also could not add a contact. The same problem with my, admin, account. So it appears to be system wide
Import is not an available option, its grayed out. As is just about everything else.
This wouldn't be a total loss as I have all my contacts written down.
BUT I can't add contacts back to Address Book - I tick the add button and nothing. The add contact button is untickable.
I already repaired disk permissions.
It does appear that my contacts are in the metadata folder.
I deleted the AddressBook-v22.abcddb file and opened Address Book but it was still blank and I still could not add my contacts back. I noticed that the file did rebuild itself. I restarted and still nothing changed.
There is a second file, AddressBook-v22~.abcddb, I deleted that as well and it did not rebuild itself and had no effect.
I did make a copy of the complete folder.
I can only think of a few things I've done since I last checked Address Book, but I don't see how it would create this problem
* Deleted my windows partition through bootcamp
* ran disk permissions for the first time
* had my contacts placed on my ipod
I don't think there was anything else. Oh, yes - I purged my computer of all hidden google related files. I had already done this before but it turned out there were more more more. I did Not have my contacts synced with a google account nor do I do any syncing with any mobile devices/clouds at all.
In the guest account I also could not add a contact. The same problem with my, admin, account. So it appears to be system wide
Import is not an available option, its grayed out. As is just about everything else.