Re: desperate address book problem, please help

FROM : Scott Stevenson
DATE : Mon Apr 30 09:22:12 2007

On Apr 30, 2007, at 12:15 AM, Balazs Kral wrote:

> The Address Book was empty (like in a newly installed system), as 
> well as the "AddressBook.data" file.
> I have checked the other files in the ~/Library/Application Support/
> Address Book/ -folder and there must be something in the 
> "ABPerson.skIndexInverted"-file.
> Does anyone know any solution, trick or something to recompile the 
> "AddressBook.data"-file from this file, or just recover the 
> addresses from this file.


This isn't a development question. I think you probably want macosx-
talk.

However, the short answer is that the .data file is the real file. I 
don't think the index file can help you reconstruct your entries.

    - Scott