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Disappearing Contact/address book entries

After many years of use approximately 25% of my Contacts (prior total 120) disappeared. Scattered across all listings, no commonality. Started to reenter one "John Smith" and when I got to the "John Sm..." the full card reappeared with all of the previous fields appearing. Couldn't get it to do that again.


Imported backed up (Fle/Export) copy by prior date but can't open previous known File.


iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 30, 2020 8:11 AM

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Posted on May 31, 2020 8:09 AM

Tadaaa! - checked my iCloud backup and turned on whatever had not been. Immediately phone, pad and computer have synced via the cloud and all ~400 contacts are restored. Thanks for your comments folks.

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