return of my Address Book !!

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

Almost 3 months ago, my Address Book lost al of 
its function (see my original post below).
I had a number of helpful suggestions from the 
List, all of which I tried or implemented, all to 
no avail.

Yesterday, I reinstalled Mac OS X 10.3, over my 
existing installation (which was neatly put in a 
"Previous Suystems" folder).  I then ran the 
10.3.4 Combo update.

My Address Book is now working perfectly.

The reinstallation also fixed the problem with 
Virex 7.2, that it could not access the eUpdate 
(it always said "cannot connect to th4e 
Internet").  It now works perfectly.

Who knows where the problem was, but everything 
is perfectly restored, BlueTooth works through 
the Address Book, Virex keeeps checking for 
updates, ....

I just thought that the members might like to 
know that sometimes, strange problems can be 
fixed by this approach.

regards,  Trevor

At 11:31 +0300 17/4/04, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>15.2" Al-book/OS 10.3.3
>
>
>My Address Book 3.1.1 (v 301) no longer functions.
>
>For an unknown reason, my Address Book has stopped working.
>
>It is there in the Dock. 
>I can launch it, but all the Menu items are grey.
>Nothing is displayed, nothing works.
>
>It has been like this for at least 10 days. 
>
>I have re-installed the 10.3.3 Combo update, 
>repaired the permissions, restarted, ran 
>Cocktail, etc etc. 
>Now I have deleted the PLIST files:	com.apple.AddressBook.plist
>				AddressBookMe.plist
>No change/
>
>I do not use the Address Book very much, but I 
>do use it to send SMS via my Nokia 6319i using 
>Bluetooth, and I no longer have that 
>possibility, whilst the Address Book is not 
>working.
>
>I thought that the Address Book was relatively 
>simple, so what has happened to it ? 
>Is there any way to reinstall it ?  I could not 
>find this as an option on the original Install 
>CDs.
>
>Has anyone ever seen this strange behaviour ?
>
>regards,  Trevor