In Lion, restore Address Book data from Time Machine backup of Snow Leopard

[McWell]

Hi,

I did a clean install of Lion on my Macbook Pro. Before installing Lion, I performed a Time Machine backup of Snow Leopard.

Now, I would like to restore my contacts in Address Book from the backup of Snow Leopard, but I can't.

Time Machine 'sees' my Snow Leopard backups and they are displayed in purple in the time line, but cannot access them.

Therefore I tried to copy the Address Book database manually from the backup of /Users/<my_account>/Library/... and so on, only to find that Lion does not have a similar location to store the database.

I am at a loss, can anyone help?

Cheers, Peter

 

[j4ymf]

Hello

i have the same problem, did you find out how to do it

thanks jason

 

[Daffodil]

Hi,

I did a clean install of Lion on my Macbook Pro. Before installing Lion, I performed a Time Machine backup of Snow Leopard.

Now, I would like to restore my contacts in Address Book from the backup of Snow Leopard, but I can't.

Time Machine 'sees' my Snow Leopard backups and they are displayed in purple in the time line, but cannot access them.

Therefore I tried to copy the Address Book database manually from the backup of /Users/<my_account>/Library/... and so on, only to find that Lion does not have a similar location to store the database.

I am at a loss, can anyone help?

Cheers, Peter

You should try using migration assistant: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413#3