Recover my address book?

January 1, 2006 5:33 PM

OhNoesFilter: Is it possible to recover the address book that was lost in an ill-fated sync attempt between my Mac and my Motorola phone?

iBook running Tiger and a Motorola RAZR w/ Bluetooth. My first sync started to hang and I ended up restarting the computer. I didn't think to check the phone or address book when I restarted. I must've sync'd an empty address book to the phone or vice versa. Anyone have ideas about a possible recovery? I assume this is more likely on the Mac than the phone, but either way would be excellent. And while I recently backed up my music on an external HDD, I didn't get around to backing up the rest of my data.

posted by mullacc to technology (2 comments total)

Assuming you are using iSync...

iSync is supposed to keep copies of your address book after performing a sync. Check the "Devices" menu in iSync for "rever to last sync". This page from Apple has some information; also check the help in iSync.
posted by istewart at 7:04 PM on January 1, 2006

You might find it under...

HD/~user/library/Application support/Address book

There are quite a bit of other items that are backup items there.
posted by filmgeek at 7:38 PM on January 1, 2006