Unlocking address book

I am having difficulty unlocking the address book. I go to 'get info'> click on the lock icon > enter my password > it unlocks > I close the window and it locks again. ??????
The reason I want to do this is when I trash the old backups from time machine, I get a message that I need to press the option key over and over again because the address book is locked. ?????
TIA

this is standard OS X behavior. every time you open a get info window you have to unlock that lock again. If you want to delete all backups of a file/folder from TM you shouldn't do it from finder. do it from TM interface as follows. start TM, select file/folder you want to delete, click on the "gears" action button in finder's toolbar and select 'delete all backups of this item".

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Hey, thanks for the reply.
I've actually resolved the question myself (Yay for me) I reinstalled mavericks and tried to restore my data using time machine. For whatever reason address book didn't copy over and neither did my iTunes library, I managed to find the answer to my iTunes query on another forum... Lol can you believe it was just the case of deleting two folders and voila! It worked... after two hours of searching.
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