personal-data-backup-recovery/docs/Contacts.md

Google Contacts

Use Cases

• Lost access to Google Contacts due to account takeover or account shut down by Google
• Lost access to Google Contacts due to Google error or outage
• Lost access to Google Contacts due to lost password
• Data corruption

Create Contacts Backup

1. Open Google Contacts (contacts.google.com)
2. Click on the Export button with an arrow pointing up out of a half box in the header row.
3. Select Export as vCard, then click Export
4. Find the VCF file that was automatically downloaded, usually in the Downloads folder, and rename it to YYYY-MM-DD Contacts Backup.vcf
5. Move the backup file to your network backup folder.