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Re: Address Book

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On Sun, 4 May 2025 09:02:49 -0700, "David E. Ross"
<nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

>Windows 7
>Thunderbird 52.9.1
>
>I deleted a mailing list, thinking the E-mail addresses also existed in
>in my personal address book.  I was wrong!
>
>I backup my entire PC weekly, retaining 6 weeks of backups.  Thus, I
>should be able to retrieve that mailing list, which did not change in
>that 6-week period.  However, I do not know the name of the address book
>file or folder or where it is --
>	*  If the address book is a folder, what is its name?  What then would
>be the name of the file of the specific mailing list?
>	*  If the entire address book is a file, what is its name?
>	*  Is the address book in Thunderbird's root or profile?

As already mentioned in the reply to Newyana2, it should be in your
profile.  I just checked my profile (v138 on Wn 11) and it contains a
backup of the olde .mab file.

So yours should be in whatever you have backed up as abook.mab.

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Address Book "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-05-04 09:02 -0700
  Re: Address Book Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-05-04 12:16 -0400
    Re: Address Book Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-05-04 09:57 -0700
      Re: Address Book Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-05-04 20:10 -0400
  Re: Address Book Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-05-04 10:11 -0700

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