I tashed Address Book and I don't have start up disk - help!

Can I download it somewhere? I never used to use it and now I have an iphone...

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
No, you cannot download it. Call Apple and give them your serial number, they will replace your disks at a nominal charge.
It's also possible 10.5.8 Combo Updatemay restore it. This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update so it should overwrite any files that are damaged or missing. It does not matter if you have applied it before.
Remember to Verify Disk before update and repair permissions after update from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
-mj
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Any help at all will be massively appreciated. Thanks.
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This is in response to the iCal crash problems. I'm posting this in several different forums, so please pardon the generalized nature of the response.
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*Hardware:
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**1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
**1.5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
**60 GB hard disk
*Software:
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Procedure: (I did all this through the Finder).
1) Move ~/Library/Caches to the desktop.
2) Start iCal. A new Caches folder should be created, and iCal should spend a little time setting up, then iCal should work with all previously existing calendars present and up to date (at this point, I can't tell that I've lost anything at all).
3) Rename the newly created Caches folder to "Caches-New" (or otherwise save this folder).
4) Move the Caches folder which was saved to the desktop back to the ~/Library folder.
5) Copy the following from "Caches-New" to the just-restored Caches folder:
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5b) Copy Caches-New/Metadata/iCal to ~/Library/Caches/Metadata (you will be replacing the old version of this folder).
I suspect the problem was with the contents of the Metadata folder.
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(Similar steps might be used for the address book. I noticed that when the new Cache folder was created, there were address book components as well after I opened iCal).
-ktb
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I came accross this a couple weeks ago but haven't tried it yet. I think you can do with it what you want though:
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Your old MacBook series, built between 2006 and 2010, had several
different verions within those years and they do not all accept a later
upgrade to the most newest OS X versions...
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Leopard 10.5.x, and early models can use Snow Leopard 10.6.8,
& some can run as late as Lion 10.7.5; or maybe Mavericks 10.9.2.
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A supported computer may also need hardware upgrade (RAM)
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•How to identify MacBook models:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1635
•Apple MacBook Specs (ALL MacBook Technical Specs) - everymac.com:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/index-macbook.html
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1. I can't seem to find an easy way to determine if an email address is already in the Address Book. In Entourage, if the email address is not in the address book, it gives me the option to add it with a link at the top of the mail window. How can I tell if an email address from an incoming mail is in the Address Book or not?
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that should read all connected through I Cloud (fat fingers)

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Nuts isn't it. This seems to have been an issue snce dAY 1. iT FROSTS ME THAT THERE IS NO SIMPLE QUICK WAY TO UPDATE OR CORRECT the data in both programs simultaneously.. Thats why i decided to just put everytning into the i cloud address brook, and let the one other sit and rot.
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aNYONE WILLING TO DUMP SEWAGE ON MICROSOFT AND aPPLE... UNCOOPERATIVE TWITS. - boh should be smacked.

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I use SyncMate to solve this problem. This app allows connecting and syncing numerous devices and accounts with your Mac and they have recently added iCloud into this list (here the page where they describe sync with iCloud http://www.sync-mac.com/cloud-sync.html ).
This is how I established sync of my Outlook data with iCloud via this app.
1. SyncMate syncs only that data which is located on your Mac so you will need to move your contacts back to Address Book on mac from iCloud and disable iCloud for contacts (in order they were stored on Mac, not in iCloud).
2. You install SyncMate and add iCloud as a new connection (depending on data you want to sync you need to choose "Cloud contacts" or "Cloud calendars" connection in SyncMate wizard and log into your iCloud via SyncMate). Once you've done this, you can sync data on Mac with iCloud via SyncMate.
3. I may assume that automatic sync option is enabled in Outlook preferences (as previously your contacts on Mac were synced with Outlook). If no - please, enable it (got to Outlook preferences).
4. Once all this done, data will be automatically synced betwen Outlook and iCloud (latter via SyncMate). The trick of SyncMate is that data is physically located on your Mac (thus ensuring it will be synced with other devices and accounts SyncMate supports, as I said before, SyncMate works with data which is located on Mac), but you still can have it in iCloud (sync will be performed via SyncMate, no need to enable iCloud itself).
5. And of course, you will be able to sync your iPhone contacts with your Mac (SyncMate supports sync with iPhones also). These contacts will be also synced to Outlook.

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Sorry, should have given more info-I have an iphone 3G, MacBook Pro, operating system is MAC OS X.
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I have in the past synced my address book with my facebook so that has a photo for each of my friends (their profile pics at the time) and since I have deleted my facebook account for privacy reasons.
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