Address Book/iPhoto

My Address Book opens fine from my dock or from my e-mail. However,in the finder under both Home/library/application support/address book/address book data and the same under the HD, when I double click address bookdata iPhoto opens instead. Any ideas???
Bergietoo

There is a much easier way to backup Address Book data.
At the Address Book menu bar go to File and select Back up Address Book.
The default name of the backup file is Address Book - (and the date).
Save this file to the backup drive.
If you need to recover from the backup file, at the menu bar go to File and select Revert to Address Book Backup selecting the backup file.
There isn't much reason to open the AddressBook.data file directly.

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