Ned Lilly wrote:
> Hi, I recently upgraded to 0.7 from a nightly build from a few weeks
> ago, and am having problems getting my old address book to come up. I
> can see the data in the abook.mab file, but the import utility doesn't
> seem to read it natively, and of course I forgot to do a LDIF export
> beforehand.
If you had a profile that worked with a build from a few weeks ago, it
should work fine with Mozilla 0.7. You shouldn't have to import or
migrate or anything.
> I installed 0.7 binaries in a different directory, of course, but the
> user settings are in the same place. So even when I started up my
> old installation, it didn't pull up the old address book.
>
> Basically, I can't figure any way to get that data out of the
> abook.mab file. I saw someone a few weeks ago was working on a
> utility to do this - any luck?
I think that person was trying to make a third party application be able
to import .mab files.
> Any other suggestions warmly embraced. I've got a whole lotta people
> in there, and my most recent backup is pretty moldy.
When you start up mozilla, is there anything in your "Personal Address
Book" or is it empty?
Here's what I'd do to figure out what's going on.
1) save a copy of your old abook.mab file of to the side, just to be safe
2) create a new profile, launch the address book, add a card to the
"Personal Address Book"
3) exit mozilla, find the abook.mab for the new profile.
4) copy your old abook.mab on top of the new abook.mab
5) start up mozilla again, with that new profile, launch the address
book, and see what's in the "Personal Address Book"
If you see your old address book, then the old abook.mab file is ok, and
something is up with your old profile.
-Seth
