Try under username/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
In the Previous system folder you will have to look just a bit deeper.
Jerry
On May 13, 2004, at 11:02 PM, Bill Micou wrote:
> Jerry, thank you for your response, I think I have restored most of my
> main files, but my
> address book must have it's files tucked away where I can't find them.
> Can anyone tell me
> where they might be hiding?
> Thanks,
> Bill Micou
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com>
> To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 03:00:08 -0400
> Subject: Re: MacGroup: life after a crash
>
>> Hello Bill,
>>
>> Most of these can be handled, one at a time, by dragging them from the
>> Previous Systems folder to the current folder. (This is generalized
>> advice). I am saying one at a time, because some of these (in the
>> cases
>> you have listed) will replace the new files and some will be "new"
>> things that your system re-install did not copy over for you.
>>
>> Mostly you can get by with the drag and drop approach, but you might
>> be
>> told that you do not have permissions to replace certain files. At
>> that
>> point simply enter your admin password and it will complete the
>> operation. For completeness sake, run the Disk Utility's Repair
>> Permissions after you are completely finished.
>>
>> Note that you will need to copy the folders that the data actually
>> reside in to their new locations, not just what appears to be the main
>> folder, iTunes for example does not keeps its music files inside ofthe
>> iTunes app folder.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> :loss: /n./ Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in
>> which something is losing. Emphatic forms include `moby loss',
>> and `total loss', `complete loss'. Common interjections are
>> "What a loss!" and "What a moby loss!" Note that `moby
>> loss' is OK even though **`moby loser' is not used; applied to an
>> abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier, whereas when applied to
>> a person it implies substance and has positive connotations.
>> Compare {lossage}.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> On May 12, 2004, at 12:00 AM, Bill Micou wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Group-
>>>
>>> I have a G4 Powerbook with 550 MHz/ 256 MB, running 10.3.3. It was
>>> getting stuck during the
>>> start-up. It would go from the grey pinwheel to the blue screen with
>>> the colored pinwheel, but
>>> would not proceed pass the 'starting windows login' process.
>>> AppleCare helped me try to solve
>>> the problem but finally told me to re-install the OS, but to make the
>>> choice where I would save
>>> all my old files. He advised me that I would lose all my personal
>>> settings, but not the programs,
>>> etc. (He concluded that I must have had a corrupted file somewhere
>> in
>>> the start-up)
>>>
>>> Everything that I had on the old system is now in a folder called
>>> "previous system". My
>>> questions to all ye who know this stuff so much better than me is ...
>>> In ITune, do I import the song library from the 'old system' to the
>>> new; if I do, then do I delete
>>> all the songs in the old.
>>> In IPhoto, if I import all the pics from the old to the new, won't I
>>> have double the pics? Do I
>>> delete the old system Iphoto after I put them in the new?
>>> Address book- I haven't touched it yet. Isn't there a way to just
>> use
>>> the old file and treat it as
>>> new?
>>>
>>> There's probably a very simple answer to this. If I keep on
>> rambling,
>>> I'll stumble on it, but I
>>> won't recognize it.
>>>
>>> As always, I greatly appreciate the help this group always provides.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill Micou
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if
>> I will use it or not, but I will come up with one.
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if
I will use it or not, but I will come up with one.
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