I accidently deleted Thunderbird then reinstalled it but I have lost my total address book. How do I get it back?
I had two Thunderbird apps on my computer. When I realized that one of them was for organizations, which I don't belong to, I deleted it. But both of the apps were deleted. I then reinstalled Thunderbird, but when I went to send an email, my entire address book was blank. How do I retrieve it and reinstall it ? Thank you.
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If you reinstalled without having deleted the appdata\roaming\thunnderbird folder, it may still be there. Try this: - click help>troubleshootinginformation - scroll to 'profile folder' and click 'open folder' - you are now in windows file explorer, click the back arrow once - you should now be looking at the appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles folder - open the profiles folder - now, open each of the profiles there, looking for a file named abook.sqlite that has a recently used date. note the folder where you found it. - now, in thunderbird, click tools>import>import from a file - follow the prompts for addressbook until you reach the menu where 'sqlite' is an option. - click the sqlite option and then locate/select the abook.sqlite file you discovered - repeat the tppls>import steps to also import a file named history.sqlite from the same folder as the one in which you found the abook.sqlite file