Have you loaded fonts with Font Book recently? It sounds as if you have a corrupted font problem, or a problem with too many fonts loaded with Font Book. On Oct 8, 2004, at 9:23 AM, Winston MacKelvie wrote: > Hi all. I'm stumped. Address Book doesn't work. All of a sudden after > flawless years of use, it stopped. First ir showed to be open in the > dock but never showed in screen or in the menus or by Expose. I > Trashed prefs a,d then it returned to the screen but beachballed > forever as soon as I did any search or opened an entry. I've redone > Permissions twice. The first time there was a blast of activity for > several second seeming to do with AB. The second time Permissions > appeared normal. > I've reloaded all the prefs, App support, SyncService I can think of > but it still just beachballs.