Script attempting to access address book on launch

[Hadrian Micciche]

I'm running Entourage 11.2.3 with Mac OS 10.4. Get a message when launching
the program that a script is attempting to access the address book, but it
doesn't identify the script. How do I find the script to disable it.

 

[Mickey Stevens]

Try launching Entourage with the Shift key held down. Does that help? If
so, something in a schedule is causing this to happen.

Go to Tools > Schedules, and look through your schedules. See if there are
any that run "At Startup" and are set to "Run AppleScript". If not, and you
have mail set to be retrieved at startup, look through your rules (Tools >
Rules) and Mailing Lists (Tools > Mailing List Manager) to see what scripts
if any you have set to run.

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

I'm running Entourage 11.2.3 with Mac OS 10.4. Get a message when launching
the program that a script is attempting to access the address book, but it
doesn't identify the script. How do I find the script to disable it.

Are you running Spam Sieve - that has a series of scripts that access the
address book.

 

[Hadrian]

Are you running Spam Sieve - that has a series of scripts that access the
address book.

I'm not running Spam Sieve.

 

[Hadrian]

I have no AppleScripts scheduled to run. I do not use AppleScript for
anything.

What stopped the notification is to select the "do not notify" checkbox on
the warning dialog box and click the cancel button to presumably stop the
script from running. However, this still does not identify what script was
trying to run.

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

Well, if you were getting that notification, then some sort of script was
trying to access your address book. Turning off the notification has not
stopped that access, it has only stopped the warning dialog from appearing.

If you are convinced you have set no scripts up to run, then something else
has. If I were in that position I would be going crazy until I found out
what it was.

First, if the dialog only ever popped up at application launch, that points
to a schedule within entourage itself. From the tools menu select
'schedules', and look through each one to see what is set to fire off at
launch and whether or not it runs a script. If there is nothing there, are
you running any utilities that list addresses etc in the menu bar (or other
places) like 'Entourage AB menu' or something similar? They could be the
culprits, and acting benignly.

If that search turns up nothing, then the culprit must be outside of
entourage. In this case I would expect the access to be on a more frequent
basis - did the dialog pop up at any time other than application startup?
First place to check would be in the startup items list. In the 'accounts'
pane of the system prefs, look at what you have listed under the 'login
items' page for your account - that is the most likely place for any startup
scripts to be launched.