During a backup and reinstall of my OS a few weeks ago I apparently made a whoops while backing up address book. Instead of 'exporting' the address book I hunted down the root files where the data is contained and thought that was how you backed it up (shows how long I was a PC user).

Now I can't seem to find a way to restore the address book from those files. Is there any way to restore my old addresses? I hate that they're still all sitting right there and I have the data but can't access it. Anyone have any ideas?

12/3/2007 11:06:57 AM

maybe you can download it

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1039503823611908862

12/3/2007 11:19:05 AM

I've seen the clip but unless Nick Burns solves my problem then why are you posting the vid [no troll]

12/3/2007 11:37:04 AM

if you used a legal version of leopard this would not happen

12/3/2007 12:28:52 PM

>.<

[Edited on December 3, 2007 at 1:19 PM. Reason : karma's a biotch]

12/3/2007 1:18:24 PM

qntmfred

12/3/2007 1:29:30 PM

Anybody else read the topic and thought it meant MAC addresses?

12/3/2007 1:46:25 PM

I did. and then I wondered why you would need a book for your MAC address.

12/3/2007 2:18:38 PM

I keep a book of all my MAC addresses... in case I ever need to mess around in my router. I give each of the four computers in my condo (desktop, file backup, laptop, girlfriend's laptop) a static IP address based off of the MAC.

Call me a nerd, but I hate trying to find the IP address of a computer when I need to \\connect to it. Plus \\computername doesn't always work well with Macs (the computers).

It's not really a book, but a text file.

12/3/2007 2:21:07 PM

that's why you run your own dhcp server and have it assign hostnames

whatever hostname the device reports gets prepended to e00.lan

so the computer i'm on right now, for instance, can be accessed by:

leoplurodon.e00.lan

gets resolved by dns, none of that netbios shit.

this is how we do it in the real world.

12/3/2007 2:25:24 PM

Can you do that on a regular linksys router? I've got a wrt54g v2 with dd-wrt on it. plz to advise

12/3/2007 3:50:50 PM

not that you deserve it, but this may or may not help

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071118134839992

12/4/2007 4:09:20 PM

Address book takes in xml data. You can write a script to make vcards of the data and just drag and drop that into the address book.


You coudl probably also go directly into whatever xml format address book uses

12/4/2007 10:23:18 PM