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Guerri Stevens
March 6th, 2008, 09:45 PM
I am getting the new version of Tbird set up and would like to get it to
recognize my old address book. Does anyone happen to know the file name
of the address book and where it might be located? I will have to get it
off my backup drive, and I have a bad feeling that it might have been
stuck in that Documents and Settings area.

-- Guerri

Chuck
March 6th, 2008, 10:22 PM
Guerri -

My Thunderbird is the portable one, so ABOOK.MAB, which is the Personal
Address Book file, is in the PROFILE folder on my USB key.

For your case, check out

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs

and more specifically

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird

which says your profile folder (if you have Win2000 or XP) is at

/C:\Documents and Settings\/<Windows user name>/\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Profile name>/

which I hope isn't bad news for you.

Best of luck,

Chuck

Guerri Stevens wrote:
>
> I am getting the new version of Tbird set up and would like to get it
> to recognize my old address book. Does anyone happen to know the file
> name of the address book and where it might be located? I will have to
> get it off my backup drive, and I have a bad feeling that it might
> have been stuck in that Documents and Settings area.
>
> -- Guerri
>
>

Guerri Stevens
March 7th, 2008, 12:05 AM
I can't find ABOOK.MAB on my backup volume, but maybe earlier versions
of Tbird put it elsewhere or maybe I somehow managed not to back it up.

And another Tbird question: I'm running version 2.0.0.12. I have told it
not to check the spelling of outgoing messages. But I notice in the
Subject of this message, which is a reply, it has red dots underlining
"Dixonary". So I'm guessing there is underlying spell checking going on.

Chuck wrote:
> Guerri -
>
> My Thunderbird is the portable one, so ABOOK.MAB, which is the Personal
> Address Book file, is in the PROFILE folder on my USB key.
>
> For your case, check out
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs
>
> and more specifically
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
>
> which says your profile folder (if you have Win2000 or XP) is at
>
> /C:\Documents and Settings\/<Windows user name>/\Application
> Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Profile name>/
>
> which I hope isn't bad news for you.
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Chuck
>
> Guerri Stevens wrote:
>>
>> I am getting the new version of Tbird set up and would like to get it
>> to recognize my old address book. Does anyone happen to know the file
>> name of the address book and where it might be located? I will have to
>> get it off my backup drive, and I have a bad feeling that it might
>> have been stuck in that Documents and Settings area.
>>
>> -- Guerri
>>
>>
>
>
>
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Tim B
March 7th, 2008, 03:57 AM
> I am getting the new version of Tbird set up and would like to get it to
> recognize my old address book. Does anyone happen to know the file name
> of the address book and where it might be located?

'The address books that you use with Thunderbird or Mozilla Suite are by
default stored in your profile folder. The two default address books,
called "Personal Address Book" and "Collected Addresses," are named
"abook.mab" and "history.mab", respectively. Other address books that
you create in addition to these will also be named with the ".mab"
extension, such as "abook-1.mab" or "abook-2.mab".'

Using Explorer's Find files and looking for abook.mab should find it.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

Chuck
March 7th, 2008, 08:48 AM
Guerri -

That would be the spell checking. Perhaps your option limits behaviour
but not all checking. I notice in the previous sentence that my spell
checker doesn't speak Canadian.

On another topic: During the XP install there is a step near the very
beginning where disk drivers may be added to address the problem you
mentioned about it not seeing a hard drive. I think it specifically
asks for SCSI drivers, but others should work as well.

- Chuck

Guerri Stevens wrote:
>
> I can't find ABOOK.MAB on my backup volume, but maybe earlier versions
> of Tbird put it elsewhere or maybe I somehow managed not to back it up.
>
> And another Tbird question: I'm running version 2.0.0.12. I have told
> it not to check the spelling of outgoing messages. But I notice in the
> Subject of this message, which is a reply, it has red dots underlining
> "Dixonary". So I'm guessing there is underlying spell checking going on.
>
> Chuck wrote:

Guerri Stevens
March 7th, 2008, 10:55 AM
Yes, I recall the request for drivers, something about pressing F6 to
add them.

Chuck wrote:
>
> Guerri -
> On another topic: During the XP install there is a step near the very
> beginning where disk drivers may be added to address the problem you
> mentioned about it not seeing a hard drive. I think it specifically
> asks for SCSI drivers, but others should work as well.
>
> - Chuck

Guerri Stevens
March 7th, 2008, 11:09 AM
Learn something every day - I *had* used the search option in Explorer
and it kept telling me it couldn't find anything, even with the advanced
search. Today when trying again, I decided to check the box for
unindexed and hidden files, and got the address books. They are under
\users\guerri\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles . Good grief!

-- Guerri (who remembers good ole DOS)

Tim B wrote:
> 'The address books that you use with Thunderbird or Mozilla Suite are by
> default stored in your profile folder. The two default address books,
> called "Personal Address Book" and "Collected Addresses," are named
> "abook.mab" and "history.mab", respectively. Other address books that
> you create in addition to these will also be named with the ".mab"
> extension, such as "abook-1.mab" or "abook-2.mab".'
>
> Using Explorer's Find files and looking for abook.mab should find it.

Bill Hirst
March 8th, 2008, 06:43 PM
Even though I fondly remember doing everything at the old C:> prompt,
I finally found something I like in Vista. The Aurora screen-saver is
cute and it has been patched to run under XP. Anybody who's interested
can download it from <http://www.sendspace.com/file/4v6h0j>. You'll
have to be a bit geekish to unzip it, find the "aurora.scr" program,
and copy it to C:\Windows\System32.

I'd rather post a link to something that was easier to install, but I
didn't find any. At least this site doesn't require you to register or
log on. It didn't raise any antivirus alarms with AVG when I ran it,
but in these days of increasingly sophisticated trojans and evil
zombie bots, there's really no guarantee except staying off the
internet. I even had a trojan dropped on me last week just by surfing
the wrong site. AVG caught that one instantly and dealt with it.

Speaking of zombies, there's a new movie on HBO tonight, The Hills
Have Eyes II.

-Bill (Am I far enough off-topic yet? Do I need to mention snow
tires?)


On Mar 7, 12:09*pm, Guerri Stevens <gue... (AT) tapcis (DOT) com> wrote:
> Learn something every day - I *had* used the search option in Explorer
> and it kept telling me it couldn't find anything, even with the advanced
> search. Today when trying again, I decided to check the box for
> unindexed and hidden files, and got the address books. They are under
> \users\guerri\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles . Good grief!
>
> -- Guerri (who remembers good ole DOS)
>
>
>
> Tim B wrote:
> > 'The address books that you use with Thunderbird or Mozilla Suite are by
> > default stored in your profile folder. The two default address books,
> > called "Personal Address Book" and "Collected Addresses," are named
> > "abook.mab" and "history.mab", respectively. Other address books that
> > you create in addition to these will also be named with the ".mab"
> > extension, such as "abook-1.mab" or "abook-2.mab".'
>
> > Using Explorer's Find files and looking for abook.mab should find it.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -