Error: The AddressBook datafile is a directory!
This message may show up in the in the console log for an application that has crashed. Alternatively, you may see the AddressBook framework as the location of a crash in a crash report.
The cause may be a bad alias in the application support folder for the application that is crashing. You will need to correct the alias to point the correct location. As follows:
- Hold down the Option key and bring up the Finder "Go" menu. Holding down Option allows you to open the Library folder in your account.
- Inside the Library is the Containers folder. Open that folder.
- Look for the folder associated with the crashing application, for example iPhoto. In iPhoto's case the folder is com.apple.iPhoto.
- Navigate to the following (using iPhoto as the example) folder: ~Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/Data/Library/Application Support
- You will see an alias named AddressBook. Check the original file that the alias points to. If the alias points to the ~Library/Application Support folder, you have found the source of the crash. You need to make the alias point to the ~Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder.
Hope this tip helps.
