I am failing to see how I lost all my contacts when getting a new iMac. I used set up assistant and resotred through a TM bak up and everything appears to be working fine, except I lost all my contacts. How do I recover them?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), external drive for photo and itunes
Do you synchronize Contacts with a network service such as iCloud?
Yes, I used icloud for contacts and calenadr
Start by taking all the applicable steps in this support article:
Still no contacts. Is there a way to get them from Time Machine?
Bring the Contacts window forward, then enter Time Machine and scroll back to a snapshot that includes the contacts you want to restore. Select the contacts and click the Restore button in the lower right corner of the screen.
If you don't have a Time Machine backup, but your contacts are all on iCloud and haven't been overwritten, then you can recover them by following the instructions on this page. Double-click the downloaded file to import it into Contacts. This procedure won't work if you've synced an empty Contacts database to iCloud.
New iMac lost all contacts
