What is the file in which address book resides?
My computer crashed but I have a carbonite backup. I am guessing that somewhere in my backup there will reside a file which contains my very lengthy address book which would otherwise be lost. Where is it and can it be easily read and imported into my new Thunderbird installation?
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb
Note that it is hidden by default, so you are unlikely to stumble upon it in your file manager.
On a working system, Help|Troubleshooting Information will show you a button that opens your profile in your file manager. Admittedly, this isn't very helpful when you're looking for it in a backup or on a rescued HDD.
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You'd do better, IMHO, to rescue your entire profile rather than try to dissect it for contacts files. However....
Address book data is stored in files with a .mab extension.
abook.mab represents Personal Address Book history.mab represents Collected Addresses
These two can be just copied into another profile.
abook.mab files with numeric suffixes represent user-defined address books.
These must be imported. I use the MoreColumnsForAddressBook addon to do this.
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OK, What and where is the profile file. I am perfectly willing to get that and import it.
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb
Note that it is hidden by default, so you are unlikely to stumble upon it in your file manager.
On a working system, Help|Troubleshooting Information will show you a button that opens your profile in your file manager. Admittedly, this isn't very helpful when you're looking for it in a backup or on a rescued HDD.
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