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Restore a missing Address Book preferences window Apps
This recent hint about a missing Parallels' Snapshot Manager window made me think I could cure my missing Address Book Preferences window. Somehow it had become lost, and pressing Command-, wouldn't show anything.

So after a bit digging in Adress Book's preferences, I ran this Terminal command (after quitting Address Book):
defaults write com.apple.AdressBook "NSWindow Frame Preferences" 0
This solved the problem; on next launch, the Preferences window had returned.

[robg adds: Trashing Address Book's preferences file (com.apple.AddressBook.plist) would also solve this problem, but would require much more rework to reestablish your settings. This general technique could also be used to restore any window that's gone missing due to an improper location. First find the program's preferences file in your user's Library » Preferences folder, then either open it with a text editor and search for NSWindow, or try this command in Terminal:
defaults read com.name.of.prefs | grep NSWindow
Leave off the .plist at the end of the preference file's name in the above command. The output will be a list of all window names and positions for the program in question. Find the name of the window you'd like to recover, then run the defaults write command with that window name.]
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Restore a missing Address Book preferences window
Authored by: CoolerQ on Apr 03, '08 08:50:17AM

This hint misspells Address Book both in the text and in the command to run. The corrected command is:

defaults write com.apple.AddressBook "NSWindow Frame Preferences" 0

--Quentin



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Restore a missing Address Book preferences window
Authored by: chleuasme on Apr 03, '08 04:49:59PM
This general technique could also be used to restore any window that's gone missing due to an improper location.
The "Arrange in Front" command in the "Window" menu (alt + "Bring All to Front") could also be a faster solution.

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Restore a missing Address Book preferences window
Authored by: LL on Apr 06, '08 01:34:39PM

Any idea on how to restore the missing Find window in KeychainAccess? Mine has been missing for a while.



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