This afternoon on my MacBook Pro, Mail and Safari were acting screwy. Safari would give me a beach ball when I tried to fill out a form on Amazon and Mail would give me a beach ball when it did an address look up when I typed someone’s name in the To: field. I tried to open Address Book, but it wouldn’t open, instead giving me a “not responding” status immediately in the Force Quit Applications window. Not having the skills or time to really find out what was going on, I popped open Cocktail
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