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Restore All Contacts

How do I restore ALL my Contacts from a Time Machine backup?

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Jul 5, 2022 9:48 PM

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Posted on Jul 5, 2022 10:03 PM

Open Contacts, then connect your Time Machine drive. Click the icon in the top bar, then "Enter Time Machine". It'll open a Time Machine dialog for Contacts. Simply click the top contact, then Shift + click the bottom to select all the cards. After that, you can click "Restore".


Hope that helped!

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Jul 5, 2022 10:03 PM in response to RichardBSD

Open Contacts, then connect your Time Machine drive. Click the icon in the top bar, then "Enter Time Machine". It'll open a Time Machine dialog for Contacts. Simply click the top contact, then Shift + click the bottom to select all the cards. After that, you can click "Restore".


Hope that helped!

Restore All Contacts

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