On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:01:57 +0100, Jens Hatlak <[email protected]> wrote:
>JohnW-Mpls wrote: >> I'm running SM 2.3.3 under XP and apparently deleted a list in one of the >> address books. Not too difficult to recreate but more reliable to restore >> from a week old copy of my profile. > >So you have a backup, fine. :-) > >> So, I copied from the old profile to the current profile, the four files >> that look they would do the trick (ABOOK.MAB, abook-1.mab, abook-2.mab,& >> abook-3.mab). No luck, the missing list was not recovered. > >You found the right files but I think you forgot at least one mandatory >extra step. > >> Anyway: what does it take to restore my address books? > >Each address book needs some matching prefs in order to be connected to >SeaMonkey's Address Book component. Their names all start with >"ldap_2.servers.". You need at least >"ldap_2.servers.<someName>.filename" with a value equal to the address >book filename (e.g. abook-1.mab). Maybe more, haven't checked, but I'd >assume you also need the ones ending with ".description" and ".dirType". >Just compare your current prefs.js to the one from your backup. > >HTH > >Jens Thank you, took me a while to recognize the prefs.js file (related to about:config?) but good to know about it. However, on this occasion, I believe I was missing only one simple list and it was easier to recreate it than do all the copying necessary to recover. I was thinking it would be much easier to replace the whole profile but I would not like to lose the mail traffic since the backup. I'm lazy:- could I replace the the whole profile less the Mail directory and files, and have everything work? Or, not unlike my address book situation, do mail entries in prefs.js need to reflect the attached mail files? -- JohnW-Mpls _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
