How can I find my address book's file to restore it from backup?
Recently, I needed to do a major upgrade to Fedora 43 so I did a full backup first for safety. After the upgrade, I needed to install Thunderbird to recover access to my email. For the first time in over 20 years, I had to re-enter the data for my various email accounts and now I find that my address book is gone. How can I locate the proper files in my backup and restore them while Thunderbird isn't running?
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You would need to copye abook.sqlite and history.sqlite from the backup profile folder to the new profile. To find the current folder, try
- TB menu > Help > Troubleshooting Information
- click 'Profiles' near the bottom > about:profiles > Local Directory > click 'Open Folder' button
That should give you an idea where the backup folder is.
In my case I'll hve to restore those files from a compressed backup first. It's late now, so I'll do it tomorrow and report back.
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