Author Topic: Address Book is a closed book (Read 1925 times)

Thomas S. England · « **on:** June 12, 2003, 09:26:31 PM »

Suddenly my Address Book in OS 10.2.6 won't launch, giving me an error code 1000. Does that mean anything to anybody?

Tried the usual, trashing preferences, repair permissions, running Disk First Aid....

Thomas S. England · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2003, 07:21:55 AM »

bumping up here.

This is what I see. A search of the Mac error code sites doesn't turn up any info on this error for me.

Fortunately, I use iAddress, so I can at least still see my info.

A copy of Address Book on an external drive (Carbon Copy Cloned) produces the same error.
Login as a different user produces the same.

I'm really stumped here.

kps · « **Reply #2 on:** June 13, 2003, 09:51:32 AM »

Here's an interesting Q&A about error codes. It may mean nothing and everything.

You could try usingPacifist to extract Addressbook from the OS X CD and reinstall. I can't be certain it'll work though.

Paddy · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2003, 10:13:58 AM »

Tom, it's a known problem. Here's the Apple Knowledge Base article:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25441

And the thread at the Apple Discussions which tells you what to do when you have 10.2.6 installed instead of 10.2.5:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@...i.4@.3bc36800/0

Had me worried for a moment there - though my Address Book is not complete (Entourage is my main mail app) I wondered if mine had gone kaput on me too! Luckily, it hadn't.

Thomas S. England · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2003, 01:41:45 PM »

Still no go.

I have tried the 10.2.5 and the 10.2.6 installer packages (although I was not given the archive option)

I tried Pacifist.

Still get the same results.

Thomas S. England · « **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2003, 07:11:52 AM »

Fixed!

kps' suggestion of using Pacifist did the trick. The first time I tried that, either I was trying to use the downloaded OS update package, or I just didn't know where to look. Actually, now that I really think of it, I think I made the wrong choice when Pacifist asked about replacing or some other option.

Anyway, went back & did it again from the OS install disk and I have my address book back, or at least the version that originally came with Jaguar. fine with me, since I assumer Panther will have a new, improved version.

Thanks to all, especially kps.

kps · « **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2003, 11:08:49 AM »

Thanks for following up with your success in restoring the Address Book. Sometimes we don't hear back and don't know what worked.

Glad you got it working.

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