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>
