Address Book Hiccup
- Peter Creasey
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Re: Address Book Hiccup
Okay, I'll try that. How do know which of the individual address books is what I just imported and which were already there (I don't see any way to rename these)?
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- DanRaisch
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Re: Address Book Hiccup
Right click on the name of the address book (in the Address book window) and select "Properties" from the context menu, then change the names.
- Peter Creasey
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Re: Address Book Hiccup
Okay, Dan, I did that. And the problem still persists just as before.DanRaisch wrote:Delete the corrupted address books. That would leave you with just the imported address books.
I suspect that if something is corrupted, then it is the whole Address Book folder.
Any ideas, anyone?
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Re: Address Book Hiccup
Address books are stored in the root of your profile folder, usually
- C:\Users\your name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xxxxxxxxx.default
in separate files for each address book that you have, named:
- abook.mab, abook-1.mab, etc
The assumption is that one of these files is corrupted.
Once you have successfully exported your address book(s), you could close seamonkey, and go in and "move" those "abook-*.mab" files someplace else, keeping them for backup.
Then re-open seamonkey, which should now have no address books remaining. Then try to re-import your exported files.
If that fails, you can always copy your old "abook-*.mab" files back in.
Bear in mind this advice may well be worth exactly what you paid for it.
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- C:\Users\your name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xxxxxxxxx.default
in separate files for each address book that you have, named:
- abook.mab, abook-1.mab, etc
The assumption is that one of these files is corrupted.
Once you have successfully exported your address book(s), you could close seamonkey, and go in and "move" those "abook-*.mab" files someplace else, keeping them for backup.
Then re-open seamonkey, which should now have no address books remaining. Then try to re-import your exported files.
If that fails, you can always copy your old "abook-*.mab" files back in.
Bear in mind this advice may well be worth exactly what you paid for it.
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- Peter Creasey
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Re: Address Book Hiccup
Rob, thanks but that is more involved (and too scary) for me to try.Rob_S wrote: this advice may well be worth exactly what you paid for it.
Maybe someone else will have a more simplified solution -- tje problem can't be that unique!?!
[EDITED TO ADD] I tried a Windows Restore to a prior restore point (before the problem occurred) and the Restore corrupted/ruined my system so it would not boot. It had to be reimaged and re-updated and miraculously appears to be functional again. So, I'm a bit gun-shy.
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