<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Victoria:</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I&#39;ve had similar issues migrating Mail to a new machine. Turned out to be corruption in the user library.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Try this and see whether it helps:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Migrate to [your hard drive] / Users / [your user folder] / Library / Application Support / Address Book.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Find the file named &quot;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AddressBook-v22.abcddb&quot; and drag it somewhere safe, like your desktop.</span></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Open Address Book. When Address Book doesn&#39;t see the file you moved, it will create a new one and then open normally.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;">Did this help?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;">Peace,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;">CW</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Victoria L. Herring </span><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">&lt;<a href="mailto:VLH@herringlaw.com">VLH@herringlaw.com</a>&gt;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> wrote:<br>
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have a new iMac &amp; have been moving contents of old over to it...in<br>

the meantime, I have updated all the software and tried to open up<br>
AddressBook and it won&#39;t load.<br><br>
I repaired permissions, restarted, still no go.  I used the new iMac<br>
disks and reinstalled AddressBook from them, restarted, still no go.<br>
I have deleted all AB plists and still no go.<br><br>
Any ideas or should I jsut do an archive and install system software in full???<br>
--<br>
Victoria L. Herring, Des Moines, Iowa. Blogs:<br></span>


<a href="http://blog.JourneyZing.com" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://blog.JourneyZing.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">  [photography];<br>
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<a href="http://www.herringlaw.com" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.herringlaw.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">  [civilrights/discrimination];<br>
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<a href="http://victorialherring.typepad.com/serendipity/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://victorialherring.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">typepad.com/serendipity/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">  [personal].<br>

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