address book corrupted on iCloud

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address book corrupted on iCloud

I just lost all my data stored in address book.

I have a backup locally but whenever I load it, icloud erases it.

This is a big problem. I do not trust icloud.

How can I extract my address book entries from icloud back to my local drive?

The address book backup shows all entries held in the icloud account. When I import while offline, the entries stay put. as soon as I go online, icloud erases them.

Please help.

MacBookPro6,1, Mac OS X (10.6.6), OWC Mercury Extreme SSD

Posted on Nov 14, 2011 12:59 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 14, 2011 1:12 PM in response to William Beecham

I just lost all my data stored in address book.

I have a backup locally but whenever I load it, icloud erases it.

William...

Make sure you are using the correct Apple ID.

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Answer 2

Nov 14, 2011 6:24 PM in response to William Beecham

I solved my problem by selecting all the entries in icloud and dragging them back to my on-my-mac. I then cancelled icloud leaving just the local entries. I then backed these up.

I got duplicates when I first started icloud and got into trouble trying to get rid of them.

icloud does things in the background and moves things around so that when I attempt to choose one item, another item gets selected. When I choose and erase quickly, the wrong stuff disappeared.

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Answer 3

Nov 14, 2011 7:06 PM in response to William Beecham

Glad you got it worked out William 🙂

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