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Re: Address Book

From Nobody <jock@soccer.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject Re: Address Book
Date 2025-05-04 09:57 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <ii6f1kp8vd2vuk9ss3hhppprsj2067o0ag@4ax.com> (permalink)
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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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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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