Addressbook empty
Hello, I recently got a new computer - the ninth or twelvth (i've been programmer and service techy all my working life, processing over 5000 comps over time - big company), so I have always transferred the right profile contents to the new profile in the roaming folder - everytime all was working fine. Now, with Thunderbird version 137.0.1 (64-Bit) in Win 10 pro I have the problem that although copying the files to the right place again (roaming) the addressbooks stayed empty, but all the old mail structures and mails came nicely over in the new system. Manually copying the abook.mab (100KB) and history.mab (50KB) to the roaming profiles has absolutely no effect, the addressbooks stay empty stubbornly. I have deleted and uninstalled Thunderbird, deleted the Roamings and Locals to make a clean new install with re-copying to the profile files - no effect either. Ten minutes ago while looking for the version a new update rolled in, so I restarted, to no avail - still empty addressbooks. I could always print these files and manually rewrite the 3 abooks, but this should be the last remedy only. Any ideas what is running wrong? A BIG THANKS for your help! Peter
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
My guess is your prior version of thunderbird was before ver 78, as that is when addressbooks were converted to sqlite. In your situation, my suggestion is to click tools>import>import from a file and then select addressbook, and then select the MAB option and then locate and select your abook.mab to import and, following that, repeat the process for your history.mab import.
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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
My guess is your prior version of thunderbird was before ver 78, as that is when addressbooks were converted to sqlite. In your situation, my suggestion is to click tools>import>import from a file and then select addressbook, and then select the MAB option and then locate and select your abook.mab to import and, following that, repeat the process for your history.mab import.
David - Thank you. That solved my troubles - I just found out what a lot of 'junk' there has collected over time. I owe you a big beer or two if you ever come to Vienna! Peter
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