AddressBook created empty backup file

10.4.7 with all the updates. I tried to backup AddressBook as its been a couple months since the last backup. I get the file, but it is a directory with only one file named xxx and has size of zero. Removed the AddressBook preferences, ran Preferential Treatment, Rebuilt Permissions and no change. Everything else in AddressBook works fine. ktrace of AddressBook shows lots of file activity but no real attempts to write to the backup file, just the creation of the directory and the xxx file.
Switching to a test user account, AddressBook generates a backup file with data in it.
macbook pro

I wish I had a good answer for that. The basic approach I used was to run ktrace to see if I could find the cause. Thats what left the xxx file in the directory. It didn't help. Then I found 2 prefereneces for Address Book. The obvious one and one what another few characters at the end. I removed both and let it rebuild. Only the obvious one got rebuilt. That didn't help. Thats when I noticed that the contents of the backup file only consisted of an empty xxx file. Removing the xxx file from the address book directory then made everything work. Obviously the xxx file was not the original cause. However, it also kept address book from creating a backup. Perhaps there was something in one of the 2 preference files that originally caused the problem. I can't tell at this point.

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Sreenivasulu Reddy jonnavarapu wrote:
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>
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