Thanks for the help!

Just became a member, wanted to say thanks to "Ramona ". Today I realized I'd lost by address book in a crash with Thunderbird, and due to your generous help, I got them back!

Last night Iwas able to get my Bookmarks back due to Bill Huchinson's information.

Thanks!

 

Welcome to the Forum, luckylinda!

luckylinda,

Thank you for letting me know that you were able to recover your Address Book, and I assume this was from one of the Solutions pages. This type of positive feedback is certainly appreciated!

Would you like to share the solution you were given by Bill Huchinson, that enabled you to recover your Bookmarks? It might be useful to other users with a similar problem.

Thanks!

 

Found my Bookmarks for Firefox!!

I couldn't believe they would be "gone" so I searched and found:
http://www.journalhome.com/billhutchison/18174/
which directed me to:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

The deal is that Firefox backs up your bookmarks for 5 days. If you figure that out in the five days...you got it made!

I used the information at:
http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/ns7manualAB.html to recover my address book. It worked! There was all kinds of garbage at the end of my file that I could see when I opened it in Notepad.

-another day in Paradise...

 

Thanks for the links, Linda! Mozilla has a terrific knowledge base, and that's why I haven't added much to my own Firefox Solutions.

I hope you will become a regular on this Forum, and the entire WindowsBBS!

 

Hi, Even though I have learned a way to get my address book back in Thunderbird, there is still a problem ... I keep losing them. I haven't noticed a cause such as a crash, but a few different times I have started up Thunderbird and I'm told there was a problem and a new address book has been made.

Any advise?

thanks ... linda

 

Linda,

Did you try the second step in the Solutions page:
http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/ns7manualAB.html

It starts with: "If no joy, then try the below workaround: "

Ensure that you have a "good" backup before editing...

 

Thanks Ramona, I used both of the methods combined to get my address book back. Or at least a variation of the 2nd. I cut out the garbage and then after, deleted the part out of the new abook.mab file that you showed then I pasted what was left of the bad file back into abook.mab. Do I need to be more clear in my explanation or in my process? I can open my email many times and have everything be OK. Even after booting. I have been having trouble with this installation of windows and am in the process of getting a new one set up with my programs.

Feliz Año Nuevo, Have a fun New Years Eve. (if you get away from the computer...me too!)

linda

 

Linda,

Before you reinstall your OS, make a backup copy your entire Profiles folder, and in addition save your Address Book (abook.mab) file as abook.ldif. What you do is Export the Address Book to your HDD, as an LDIF file:

Open the Address Book
Click on: Tools | Export
Save it to the folder with your Profiles folder backup

This way you can ensure that you won't lose your AB again.

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You might be interested in checking out Firefox's Bookmark Backup extension. It backs up not only the bookmarks.html file, but any other FF files and folders you wish to save, to a user-selectable location every time you close FF. It backs up by day of the week, rather than by date, so you can have seven backups.

 

I do not know if this is from Mozilla or not, but, in addition to the bookmarks.bak file, I have also, files dated back to 12-18 in a folder called "bookmarkbackup ".
Considering that I knew nothing about them, it may be a case when the limit is five, as seen in my FF1.5 profile which has five consecutive day's backups. So, if this is the case, it may be worthwhile to thin down some of the intermediate days, hoping to keep some old stuff. But, Jim's link sounds good, having additional possibilities.