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10.5: One way to recover from an Address Book crash
Authored by: windrag on Dec 04, '07 08:35:55AM

Here's another possibility: I have a client who has "lost" her Address Book several times. I discovered that deleting (you can just drag them to the desktop) the following preferences would bring it back:

~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.###a###b###c.plist (last string is a combination of numbers and letters)
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist

The preferences must be deleted before any changes are made to Address Book–in other words before any attempts are made to add contacts or import contacts. This has worked for me in 10.4. Haven't tried it in Leopard yet.

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windrag | 2.4GHz MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo | 160GB HD | 2GB RAM | OS X 10.5.1



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