Just so I'm sure I understand your setup, "HD" is, I presume, the name of your Mac's internal hard drive. And when you double-click on "HD" it sounds like you get a window that displays files in "column" view (as opposed to the "list" or "icon" views). Thus your reference to "the right-hand list of that page."
In that column-view window, when you double-click on the application named "Address Book," you say that the list (presumably of applications) "goes away." Does any other window appear on top of the previous window? You might try taking a "screenshot" of whatever appears after you double-click on Address Book and attaching that to a message that you send to this group. To take the screenshot, double-click on the Address Book application in your Applications folder, then, after whatever appears or disappears happens, press the key combination Command(aka Apple)- Shift-3. You should hear a "camera click" sound and it should save a file called "Picture 1" (or "2" or whatever) on your Desktop. Reply to this email and attach that picture file to your email by dragging it into the body of the email text. That might help us diagnose the problem. Dan > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >>> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>> >> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
