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The sequence of events-

1. East coast trip last week.
2. Loads of photos.
3. Plugged in iPhone to Mac in the morning.
4. Photos started to sync to iPhone.
5. Didnt want loads of photos on iPhone, so manual kill of the process.
6. Somewhere there, the Address Book on Mac got corrupted. But automatic backup was there.
7. Well, I didn’t know about the corruption since the Address book on iPhone was fine.
8. Plugged in iPhone again last night.
9. The corrupted file overwrote iPhone and the backup.
10. The End.

Moral of story - Even though the Address Book issue is a known one, have a separate, manual backup of everything!