Is the issue in this article related to your problem(s)? < http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20051109080442333 >
On Nov 9, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Mike Watkins wrote: > 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>
