Seth, thanks, I did as you suggested, and it came up fine. The weird
thing was, before I created that "new" abook, Mozilla didn't seem to
recognize the existing one. But once I created the new one, then
overwrote it, everything worked as expected.
Regards,
Ned
Seth Spitzer wrote:
> 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
>
>
