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david replied 2 years ago
davidgill78
davidgill78

Hi Recently my windows update crashed and I had trouble recuperating my thunderbird email setup. This is now resolved, but I have lost my address book. Is there somewhere on my computer where this is stored and can I restore it? regards David Gill

Hi Recently my windows update crashed and I had trouble recuperating my thunderbird email setup. This is now resolved, but I have lost my address book. Is there somewhere on my computer where this is stored and can I restore it? regards David Gill

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david
david
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If the old profile is still there, you might look in the folders at c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles The addressbook is abook.sqlite