10.4: Fix the Business widget's Address Book feature

Jan 23, '06 06:49:00AM

Contributed by: wscody

Tiger only hintBusiness widgetThe OS X 10.4.4 update breaks the Business widget, a.k.a. the Yellow Pages search widget that's included with Tiger. Specifically, the little plus sign that should appear next to each search result, as seen at right, is missing. When you click the plus sign, you're asked if you'd like to add the selected entry to your Address Book, which is quite useful.

The bad news is that a few key files are missing from the Business widget's package contents. The good news is that you can copy these same files from the "People" widget's package contents.

First, quit the People and Business widgets if they're running. Then in the Finder, simply navigate to the People widget in /Library/Widgets, control-click on it and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Open the Images folder, and copy these files (hit Command-C with all of them selected):

Then navigate to the Business widget in the same /Library/Widgets directory, control-click and choose Show Package Contents, open the Image folder, and paste (Command-V) the files.

Voila! When you open the Business widget the next time, you'll find that the plus sign is back, making it easy to once again add found businesses to your Address Book.

[robg adds: I confirmed this problem on two separate machines. I tested this solution by making a copy of the Business widget in my user's Library/Widgets folder, and then modifying the copy. This way, the original wasn't modified -- just in case something went wrong (even though this is a very simple fix).]

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