Migration Assistant/Address Book Notes Missing

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Migration Assistant/Address Book Notes Missing

I ran the migration assistant to copy data/files from my mom's old Mac Mini running Leopard to a newer Mac Mini running Snow Leopard. All her data copied fine, but her address book is missing its notes (which were lengthy and important).

When I booted up the old MacMini to try to find the data file for the original address book, that address book was suddenly EMPTY.

Now I don't know what to do. Suggestions are much appreciated.

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on May 26, 2011 5:39 PM

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Answer 1

astrosal

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Jun 4, 2011 12:29 PM in response to Barbara Lee1

Hello!

If you have all your old info in a harddrive, open Address Book and Mail from the application folder on your backup harddrive, and copy (replace it) with the the current one (new Mac).

I also had the same problem with itunes.

Hope this helps!

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ds store

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Jun 4, 2011 1:48 PM in response to Barbara Lee1

You got a new computer, use your free AppleSupport period to call and ask them how to recover that lost data.

Migration Assistant has many problems and unless Apple gets a record of it they won't fix them.

So please give them a call, Thanks.

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kargadan

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Feb 8, 2013 9:12 PM in response to Barbara Lee1

Read the final comment here for the solution:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4784266

Check the appropriate box in Address Book preferences, select (highlight) all your cards, export vCards (see the File menu) to your desktop, drag the file to a thumb drive or external hard drive, or send the vCards to your new computer attached to an email, and double click on the vCards file (or select "import vCards" from the File menu).

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