G'day all

I've just installed Leopard (erase and fresh install) and am pulling things back from my backup drive. No probs with most things but I haven't been able to locate and import a file with my address book entries. Would someone please advise me on which file holds this info?

By the way ... my wife was amused by the post where someone complained that after installing Leopard he couldn't find his car keys. I can't find my iLife 08 install disk. Has anyone seen it?

Cheers
Steve

Hi mate, I was forced into a clean install and like you, lost all address book contacts.

Did you save an address book archive? If not you are probably in for some fun

From my experience (this might work for you, who knows), even though I found the meta data cards, putting them back into the current Leopard folder didnt work and I had to use quick look on each file to manually retype the details it conatined! I am starting to think this is an issue between Tiger address cards and Leopard address cards...

You can give it a try anyway. Try getting the data from a couple of places. Firstly your old user folder (from the back up) > Library > Application Support > Address Book and copy all this data into the same location on yout current user (Leopard) folder.

Now try; old user folder (from back up) > Library > Caches > com.apple.addressbook. Copy everything from this folder and place back into the equivialnt folder on your new user account.

Launch address book and hope it works! It didnt for me

If this fails..you can use quick look (press space) on the files you found above ^ to give you your data at least so all is not lost!

Good luck!

G'day Andrew

Thanks for the info. I also found the individual address files. Very tedious to re-enter them all. I will try to get them to sync from my Palm - just worried the sync might go in reverse and wipe the data off my Palm.

With iCal it was just a case of drag and drop a single file and voila - all was sweet.

Cheers
Steve

Have you guys tried dragging the old Tiger Address Book data files onto Address Book in Leopard?

andrew.wilson: did you try that method that I detailed a week or so ago to try and get your Address Book back?

I did mate...didn't work. I had upgraded the other computer as well to Leopard which is what led me to believe that it was a Leopard address book issues.

I just bit the bullet and re-entered all 80 or so cards, quicklook makes getting the info easy enough once you have found the individual cards...still sucks!

I would try the drag and drop method (didnt think of that!) and if that fails....try the sync....

Good luck!