Selahglobal
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Is there anyone out there that can help me. I was trying to sync my Blackberry Storm to my address book in my mac book pro and it wiped out my address book. I have no contact there anymore. Who do I retrieve my contacts?
I lost my contacts
- Thread starter Selahglobal
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From your AddressBook backup, or from your Time Machine or other backup.
Or from your other device that has them all still, or from your .mac/me service that could have them all.
I once lost EVERY single US format phone number I had in my AddressBook, and every single contact that contained them. That was not fun to try to recover.
After that incident, before I do any sync with it, or even without, at least once a month I use the backup option. AddressBook > File > Edit > Export > Address Book Archive...
While some contacts may be recoverable exporting them from other services (LinkedIn, Facebook etc, whatever you use) they would not contain them all.
Good luck.
Or from your other device that has them all still, or from your .mac/me service that could have them all.
I once lost EVERY single US format phone number I had in my AddressBook, and every single contact that contained them. That was not fun to try to recover.
After that incident, before I do any sync with it, or even without, at least once a month I use the backup option. AddressBook > File > Edit > Export > Address Book Archive...
While some contacts may be recoverable exporting them from other services (LinkedIn, Facebook etc, whatever you use) they would not contain them all.
Good luck.
brentclifford
Registered
How did you end up recovering all your contacts that one time you lost them all?
I didnt have my computer online when the accident happened.
So - I logged to .mac and recoved my month old contacts from there - and most others were lost.
Since then -- backup once a month AND once before any sync to any device.
Of course many contacts would be in LinkedIn or Facebook etc but I don't trust to hold the data + not all contacts and details are there of course.
So - I logged to .mac and recoved my month old contacts from there - and most others were lost.
Since then -- backup once a month AND once before any sync to any device.
Of course many contacts would be in LinkedIn or Facebook etc but I don't trust to hold the data + not all contacts and details are there of course.