<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 16 Dec 2006, at 22:58, Winston MacKelvie wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...</FONT>My G3 PowerBook (12", 10.4.8) has applications quitting at odd times for no reason that I can determine. ... Always happens in AddressBook whenever i type a second letter in the little search window.<BR></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This makes me wonder if Spotlight is responsible.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Can you try running `sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/*` at the command-line and seeing if the problem persists?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If that command gives an error then you'll need to use `for foo in /Volumes/* ; do sudo mdutil -E $foo ; done`</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I can click on that or other persons in the AB list and it works. Pages also quits at odd times as does Safari.</SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I don't find this sentence clear. I think you're saying AddressBook always crashes when you SEARCH for "Joe Someperson", but it's no problem if you just go to that addressbook entry manually?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Stroller.</DIV></BODY></HTML>