On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 05:43 PM, Frank Flynn wrote: > On my work Mac Address Book crashes if I type even one character into > the > search balloon. None of the other devices and particularly the other > Mac > have any problems. Just a theory.... Look in your ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder for a file "ABPerson.index". It may be corrupted. Test the theory by quitting Address Book and dragging the file to the Desktop. When you relaunch Address Book, it might build a new index. I say might because it appears to have done so when I tested the theory.