Address Book suddenly freezing
I've been having some odd trouble with OS X Address Book this evening. It started when I moved a few existing cards into existing Groups, then started composing a message to that group in Mail. Mail froze, and since then Address Book's been freezing too. I've tried deleting the prefs files and the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book but it's not helped. Of course, it may have made the problem worse! Now, Address Book will open but it freezes as soon as I touch anything.
I have the data backed up on another computer so I'm not concerned about the data; but is there a straightforward way of reinstalling the app that won't muck things up further? Any ideas?
I have the data backed up on another computer so I'm not concerned about the data; but is there a straightforward way of reinstalling the app that won't muck things up further? Any ideas?
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I've been having some odd trouble with OS X Address Book this evening. It started when I moved a few existing cards into existing Groups, then started composing a message to that group in Mail. Mail froze, and since then Address Book's been freezing too. I've tried deleting the prefs files and the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book but it's not helped. Of course, it may have made the problem worse! Now, Address Book will open but it freezes as soon as I touch anything.
Doing some more digging, here is how the problem manifests itself in console.log:
2007-01-16 00:19:17.588 Address Book[243] ABMetaData workloop caught: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil key
The interesting thing is that this is now freezing Safari as well, almost any time I attempt to fill in an online form. Same kind of problem:
2007-01-16 20:11:42.702 Safari[840] ABMetaData workloop caught: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil key
I'm running 10.4.8 on a G4 iMac 800GHZ. Any bright ideas welcomed on how I might deal with this, cause it's driving me round the bend! Thanks.