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<blockquote data-quote="DubeDude" data-source="post: 351515" data-attributes="member: 28207"><p>Hi Everyone,</p><p></p><p>I have revived this thread because I have solved my address book problem and I thought that it might be helpful or interesting or something to other members to know how.</p><p></p><p>Although the advice and help I got from this forum was really appreciated (thank you very much guys,) I didn't feel that I was getting to the cause of the problem. Therefore, I copied my original post from here and posted it on the MacFixItForums. </p><p></p><p>Almost the first thing I got asked by those who responded was had I installed any programs that made system-wide changes on my machine. And, Indeed, as I have just installed a new HD I had been doing a lot of downloading. The next question was were there any haxies among the programs I downloaded. Among the stuff I downloaded were MainMenu, WindowShade and Adium. Although MainMenu doesn't seem to be a haxie, it does put an icon in the Finder Menu Bar and that is a root function. Along with these came a couple of support applications -- Growl (with Adium) and APE (Application Program Enhancer) with WindowShade. I didn't like Adium so I dumped that but Growl stayed around. I kept WindowShade and APE.</p><p></p><p>Although, as here, I mentioned reinstalling the Address Book application using Pacifist, no one thought that would be necessary.</p><p></p><p>I did a bit of web research into haxies and found a couple of pages that fairly critical of their effects and talked specifically about problems being caused by APE and WindowShade.</p><p></p><p>This morning when I started-up my address book was not functioning again so I dumped WindowShade, APE and Growl. And just for good measure I also dumped MainMenu. (Although I liked it I have heard such good things about Onyx that I am going to download that.) When I restarted after my big dumperoo, my address book was back and it has stayed back through a couple of (test) restarts.</p><p></p><p>So that was the cause -- haxies. I know that tons of you use Adium and other stuff that involve havies without any problems. And I am very pleased for you. But no two computers are the same. What causes a problem on my machine may work wonderfully well on your machine. So these are not words of warning but words of mild caution. </p><p></p><p>I hope they will be of some help to someone.</p><p></p><p>David</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DubeDude, post: 351515, member: 28207"] Hi Everyone, I have revived this thread because I have solved my address book problem and I thought that it might be helpful or interesting or something to other members to know how. Although the advice and help I got from this forum was really appreciated (thank you very much guys,) I didn't feel that I was getting to the cause of the problem. Therefore, I copied my original post from here and posted it on the MacFixItForums. Almost the first thing I got asked by those who responded was had I installed any programs that made system-wide changes on my machine. And, Indeed, as I have just installed a new HD I had been doing a lot of downloading. The next question was were there any haxies among the programs I downloaded. Among the stuff I downloaded were MainMenu, WindowShade and Adium. Although MainMenu doesn't seem to be a haxie, it does put an icon in the Finder Menu Bar and that is a root function. Along with these came a couple of support applications -- Growl (with Adium) and APE (Application Program Enhancer) with WindowShade. I didn't like Adium so I dumped that but Growl stayed around. I kept WindowShade and APE. Although, as here, I mentioned reinstalling the Address Book application using Pacifist, no one thought that would be necessary. I did a bit of web research into haxies and found a couple of pages that fairly critical of their effects and talked specifically about problems being caused by APE and WindowShade. This morning when I started-up my address book was not functioning again so I dumped WindowShade, APE and Growl. And just for good measure I also dumped MainMenu. (Although I liked it I have heard such good things about Onyx that I am going to download that.) When I restarted after my big dumperoo, my address book was back and it has stayed back through a couple of (test) restarts. So that was the cause -- haxies. I know that tons of you use Adium and other stuff that involve havies without any problems. And I am very pleased for you. But no two computers are the same. What causes a problem on my machine may work wonderfully well on your machine. So these are not words of warning but words of mild caution. I hope they will be of some help to someone. David [/QUOTE]
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