It sounds like something is a bit odd with your Mac, Mike.
Are you missing other applications or is this the only one?
Jerry
On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Mike Watkins wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I don't even have an address book listing in my Applications folder
> when I double-click on it. It's not there. It does show up if I
> just double-click on HD, in the right-hand list of that page,
> however. That, too, goes away, along with everything else in that
> side of the page if I double-click on it.
>
> My address book is lost in space!
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
>
>> Have you tried opening the "Applications" folder on your hard
>> drive and double-clicking on the "Address Book" application? That
>> should open Address Book and use your current AddressBook.data
>> file. If it doesn't show the addresses you put in there, what does
>> it do?
>>
>> The icon in the dock is just an alias file that launches the
>> application "Address Book." It was in your Dock because Apple puts
>> it there by default when you install your OS X system files.
>> Dragging it out of the dock -- accidentally or on purpose -- will
>> make it disappear with a "poof." All you have to do to put it back
>> into your Dock is to drag the application icon from the
>> Applications folder into the dock and drop it.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> I have suddenly had a major loss and am in mourning... my address
>>> book is inaccessible.I know how to go the route of Home Computer/
>>> Library/ Application Support/ Address Book/Address Book.data.
>>> (That was in an E-mail I saved from a previous person's question/
>>> answer on our list serve.)
>>>
>>> My problem then is that I cannot find an application to open that
>>> file. I'm told that "There is no default application specified to
>>> open the document "AddressBook.data"." I can then choose to
>>> Cancel or to Choose Application. Seems as though I would then
>>> want to Choose Application.
>>> That's all well and good, but whatever I seem to choose as the
>>> application will only give me choices of New Folder or Cancel.
>>> There is also a space designated Open.... but it is shaded and
>>> not usable. Now what?
>>>
>>> I had it in my dock; but when I clicked on it, all I got was a
>>> big question mark over the center of it.
>>> While trying to fiddle with that, I "poofed" away that icon.
>>> Don't ask me how it got into this condition in the first place...
>>> I haven't the foggiest idea.
>>>
>>> I can find all sorts of folders, etc. regarding Addresses; but
>>> they don't get me anywhere. I get the same "No default
>>> application to open, etc." for all of those, too. Now what do I
>>> do?I've yet to find anything I can ask Help to get a pertinent
>>> answer.
>>>
>>> I am running a G4 iMac with a flat screen, on Panther/
>>> version10.3.9 system. I do have a back-up LaCie HD; it's gone on
>>> that, too.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
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