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new adresses disappear after restart, do i something wrong?

Thunderbird Troubleshooting
Zenos replied 12 years ago
edjahcalhero
edjahcalhero

when I create a new adress in the adresslist, it's gone after I restart the program. It's probably something little but i cannot find it. In the past it work well but I dont know what I have done or not done to create this problem.

when I create a new adress in the adresslist, it's gone after I restart the program. It's probably something little but i cannot find it. In the past it work well but I dont know what I have done or not done to create this problem.

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Zenos
Zenos

Chosen Solution

I'm not sure we have a prepared answer for this in this new forum, but here's a link to the old forum where this has been addressed previously.

https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/address_book_impossible_to_update_contacts

In summary:

  1. Export your address book
  2. Delete (or place elsewhere) .mab files from Thunderbird profile directory
  3. Import your address book from 1)

Modified by Zenos

edjahcalhero
edjahcalhero Question owner

thanx, it worked well and it's not as much work as it looks an first side! And the extensionname is .ldif not .mab in my case. You can give it another name and so old adresses are not gone forever either!

Zenos
Zenos

The native address book files have .mab filename extensions. The exported files with your rescued data will (should!) have .ldif extensions.

So, having exported to ldif, delete the .mab files then re-import the ldif files. ;-)