In article <485d34a1$0$14346$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Rene van den Abeelen <rene@DELETErenevandenabeelen.net> wrote:
> After a HD-crash I'm busy building things up again. > I have a backup from a few weeks ago. Mail is rebuild & running, but > were can I find the data that make the calender and adressbook files?
They're in your user folder. Everything you do as a user is there -- all docs, all settings.
Specifically: /Library/App Support/iCal/ (in different folders coded) and /Library/App Support/AddressBook/Addressbook.data
Now, if you want to know what is in there, or want to have some control over what you are importing for each folder or set, just load the whole group and export selected data, then remove all that stuff and make a new one.
For instance: iWeb builds a single, one-file database for all sites you create in it. But you don't always want to create or work with the same set of sites. So: move the file and let it create a new one. /Library/App Support/iWeb/Domain anywhere else -- I put it into a new folder naming what is in that file.
You don't have to rename anything; just have a couple folders there, and when iWeb is not running you can move between any number of collections of pages and sites.
It doesn't work the same for iCal and AddressBook, because in those programs there are categories and you have different export options, but I'm saying there are simple controls and management options even when the programs seem rather closed to intervention.
