address book transfer

As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I had to wipe my hard-drive yesterday and start over. I thought I had my address book backed up, but it was showing on the CD as a .mab file, 0KB, so I don't think anything's there. I have an addrbook.dll on another CD, but the import feature of Mozilla won't swallow it. As a result, I had to go back to a 2002 floppy version.

Is there any hope for that addrbook.dll file? And please tell me what I have to do to properly back up an address file so that I can restore the latest version in the future.

Thank you!

 

Rose Queen,

You must have the abook.mab file in order to restore your Address Book. I suggest backing up the entire Profiles Folder. By doing so you are backing up your Address Book, Bookmarks, Cookies, Passwords, Mail and Newsgroups, etc.

It's also a good idea, in addition to the above, if you have numerous addresses as I do, to export your Address Book as an LDIF file. This gives you a fail safe in the event anything goes wrong.

Check out this thread Preventive Browser Maintenance, for more tips...

Ramona

 

addrbook.dll is a file in the component folder of your program, and most likely have it There is nothing wrong with the fact that abook.mab is 0Kb, but you need the file. You ,may have little or nothing in the file, which is the personal Address Book. Look also at the impab.mab files, if you imported them from another version.

 

Westside,
AFAIK:
A 0 K abook.mab is not a valid *.mab file. A virgin abook.mab file will be 1423 b in size. It will have as a minimum the structure of the database.

An addressbook that has had ALL the entries deleted will still be a bit larger in physical size as it was before you deleted all the entries.
This is one of the shortcomings of the Mozilla addressbooks. - The database file is not compressed after entries are deleted.

regards:captjlddavis

 

Thank you, Ramona. Please tell me which files constitute the Profiles folder so that I can get this right? TIA!

 

Rose Queen,

The Profiles folder is located here:

C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles

See this guideline for the important files: How to Back Up the Profile

Ramona

 

Thank you, Ramona; I'm doing so now and printing your guideline for future ref. I did encounter a number of files that would not write to the CD, including abook.mab. However, it would write it to a floppy, so I did that instead.

I'm a little concerned about it, however, as it's only 6 KB, and from Capt. Davis's post above, it sounds like it should be quite a bit larger. However, that's the same size as it is on my hard-drive, so it's copied correctly. Should I worry?

I think I'm just going to ship this Dell back to them and let them give me a computer that actually works. What do you think?