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Re: address book data without opening app?
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Re: address book data without opening app?


  • Subject: Re: address book data without opening app?
  • From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 11:13:24 -0500

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Tom Robinson
<email@hidden> wrote:
> On 2009-05-28, at 15:02, Michael Grant wrote:
>
>> Actually I've been making some progress today with sqlite in the
>> terminal and using "do shell script", so that'll probably be
>> sufficient, although the AB schema's a little cryptic in places.
>
> Keep in mind Apple doesn't support accessing that data directly--system
> updates might break the queries, there may be caching/conflict issues, etc.
>
> Why don't you want to launch the Address Book application?

Speed, plus just not wanting something open that I don't need.

Michael

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 >Re: address book data without opening app? (From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: address book data without opening app? (From: Tom Robinson <email@hidden>)

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