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My CONTACTS file has been damaged and I have lost about two thousand entries. Can this be restored using a Time Machine backup and if so how do I do this? When I tried all I seemed to be able to do was to recover 1 contact at a time which was totall

My CONTACTS file has been damaged and I have lost about two thousand entries. Can this be restored using a Time Machine backup and if so how do I do this?




When I tried all I seemed to be able to do was to recover 1 contact at a time which was totally useless. There must be a much better way to accomplish this??

iMac 27″, macOS 12.3

Posted on May 4, 2022 2:36 PM

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Posted on May 5, 2022 4:45 AM

To restore Contacts from Time Machine: in Finder menu Go > Go To Folder and key in ~/Library/Application Support 


Find AddressBook, highlight it, then enter Time Machine and restore AddressBook from an earlier timeline.

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My CONTACTS file has been damaged and I have lost about two thousand entries. Can this be restored using a Time Machine backup and if so how do I do this? When I tried all I seemed to be able to do was to recover 1 contact at a time which was totall

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