i have reset address book, after copying the entire folder with metadata, but without making the export of the.
now i have this metadata that contain the information, how i can reimport it in contatcs?
thank
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having a problem with mobileme sync, so i have erase \libray\application support\address book; after this mobileme return to sync contact with the other device, but before erase the folder with data i have copy it on desktop.
now i have a folder with 900 metadata file.
emiliano tomei wrote:
having a problem with mobileme sync, so i have erase \libray\application support\address book;
I take it you mean the library folder in your home directory not at the top level of the hard drive.
after this mobileme return to sync contact with the other device, but before erase the folder with data i have copy it on desktop.
now i have a folder with 900 metadata file.
I don't use mobileme so can't help with your sync problems. you might want to turn off the syncing and reset the sync data.
there is no direct way to import this data into address book. that's not how it's done. if you wanted to back up your address book you should have used built in export tools in the File menu in Address Book. Now you can try the following.
after you turn off syncing quit address book and copy the metadata folder back to the address book folder. delete the file homedirectory/library/application support/address book/AddressBook-v22.abcddb. start Address book. it will rebuild the database file from metadata and it should be imported into address book.
-I take it you mean the library folder in your home directory not at the top level of the hard drive.
yes, i mean library in home directory
-I don't use mobileme so can't help with your sync problems. you might want to turn off the syncing -and reset the sync data.
i have try all the afternoon to log-in e log-off, and sync, and resync, etc data from client to mobileme, but everytime i try it mobile me say "cant' sync contacts..bla bla bla..because the database contain icoerent data", argh
so, i try to reset address book, but, there was a little problem, there was the iphone poweron, sync to mobileme, so, everytime i try to sync the new data from client to mobileme, the iphone resync it, and mobileme everytime tell me the same error message "icoerent data".
at 18:00 CET i see the iphone with battery low,(why battery low? what are you doing? dam't iphone!!!!!) it was all the time to overwrite it data to mobileme, when i try to reset the sync!!!!!!!!!
-there is no direct way to import this data into address book. that's not how it's done. if you wanted -to back up your address book you should have used built in export tools in the File menu in Address Book. Now you can try the following.
i have used export datafile from the macbook, with a little part of data, about 409 contats (all contacts are 980), and this 409 contacs are just imported, in addressbook of macbook, and imac and iphone, but the other contatcs are still in metadatafile format
-after you turn off syncing quit address book and copy the metadata folder back to the address -book folder. delete the file homedirectory/library/application support/address book/AddressBook--v22.abcddb. start Address book. it will rebuild the database file from metadata and it should be imported into address book.
no way, i think it's dangerous for the little data that i have, i hope in some tool or i must open every single metafile and copy/paste the information like number, name, mail, etc
thank a lot
You can't use that metadata and you don't need it, because Address Book creates it. MetaData is literally "data about data", so it's used internally by Address Book. If you need to back up your contacts before syncing or doing anything else, Address Book has a built-in feature to create a backup of all your contacts, or you can also just select them all and drag it to your Desktop as one vCard file.
You cannot copy and paste MetaData information; that will not work. I would try what V.K. suggested, as that is your best hope of restoring your contacts. But in the future, always make a backup of your Address Book whenever you add, delete, or change any contact.
-after you turn off syncing quit address book and copy the metadata folder back to the address -book folder. delete the file homedirectory/library/application support/address book/AddressBook--v22.abcddb. start Address book. it will rebuild the database file from metadata and it should be imported into address book.
no way, i think it's dangerous for the little data that i have, i hope in some tool or i must open every single metafile and copy/paste the information like number, name, mail, etc
thank a lot
it's not dangerous. I've done it many times. there is no other tool to do this.
