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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

#16509 — Address Book

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?

-- 
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

President Trump wants all Palestinians to leave Gaza and
relocate elsewhere.  How many will he accept to relocate
in the United States?

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#16510

On 5/4/2025 12:02 PM, David E. Ross 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?
> 

    I think it's all in abook.sqlite. You could probably even fish
out the data by hand if you had to, though it seems to be
organized with GUIDs, so it's rather messy. I opened mine
in Notepad and searched for the name of a mailing list I have.
The name is there.

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#16511

On Sun, 4 May 2025 12:16:15 -0400, Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam>
wrote:

>On 5/4/2025 12:02 PM, David E. Ross 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?
>> 
>
>    I think it's all in abook.sqlite. 

David indicates he's using v52.  I don't think .sqlite appeared till
v78 or thereabouts.

His backed-up profile should retain the full ino in a .mab file?

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#16513

On 5/4/2025 12:57 PM, Nobody wrote:

>>
>>     I think it's all in abook.sqlite.
> 
> David indicates he's using v52.  I don't think .sqlite appeared till
> v78 or thereabouts.
> 
> His backed-up profile should retain the full ino in a .mab file?
> 

     Woops. I didn't think of that. I do have v. 78.

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#16512

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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