Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Əgər kömək lazımdırsa lütfən yeni sual verin.

Some addresses from previous profile not visible in current profile

  • 1 cavab
  • 1 has this problem
  • 1 view
  • Last reply by ska.adley

ska.adley
ska.adley
more options

I was running Thunderbird 86 beta. It has problems with hyperlinks so I downgraded to stable release 78.7.1 which required me to create a new profile because the 86 beta profile can't be used by the 78 release. I didn't want to recreate my address book manually in 78 so I copied abook.sqlite from the 86 profile to the 78 profile. When I open the address book, none of the contacts appear. Oddly, I had made 3 contact lists in the previous profile and those lists appear, complete with the addresses of the contacts. I can edit the contacts that appear in the contact lists. But if I search for one of the contacts in the list, I get no results. If I start typing a contact name in a new message, the address is not found by Write. Is there a way to get all my contacts back from the previous profile?

EDIT: I opened the abook data read-only to see what was there. All my contacts data is there but the address book doesn't display it except for the 3 lists mentioned above.

EDIT: OS is Ubuntu 20.04 on Thinkpad E420; desktop is gnome.

EDIT: In addition to abook.sqlite there is abook.mab.bak, a text file which seems to have all my contacts data in it also. A bit hard to read because of the format.

EDIT: Found the problem, I think. The database structure for 78.7.1 abook has 4 tables - cards, list_cards, lists, and properties. The database structure for 86.01b does not have the cards table. Apparently this table is needed to list the contacts in the Personal Address Book.

Is there a way to create this table from the properties table?

I was running Thunderbird 86 beta. It has problems with hyperlinks so I downgraded to stable release 78.7.1 which required me to create a new profile because the 86 beta profile can't be used by the 78 release. I didn't want to recreate my address book manually in 78 so I copied abook.sqlite from the 86 profile to the 78 profile. When I open the address book, none of the contacts appear. Oddly, I had made 3 contact lists in the previous profile and those lists appear, complete with the addresses of the contacts. I can edit the contacts that appear in the contact lists. But if I search for one of the contacts in the list, I get no results. If I start typing a contact name in a new message, the address is not found by Write. Is there a way to get all my contacts back from the previous profile? EDIT: I opened the abook data read-only to see what was there. All my contacts data is there but the address book doesn't display it except for the 3 lists mentioned above. EDIT: OS is Ubuntu 20.04 on Thinkpad E420; desktop is gnome. EDIT: In addition to abook.sqlite there is abook.mab.bak, a text file which seems to have all my contacts data in it also. A bit hard to read because of the format. EDIT: Found the problem, I think. The database structure for 78.7.1 abook has 4 tables - cards, list_cards, lists, and properties. The database structure for 86.01b does not have the cards table. Apparently this table is needed to list the contacts in the Personal Address Book. Is there a way to create this table from the properties table?

Modified by ska.adley

Chosen solution

Solved it myself. Per a reply to a related problem, I found that I had abook.mab.bak that appeared to have my Personal Address book data in it. I saved a copy of it elsewhere and then renamed the file abook.mab. Then I saved a copy of abook.sqlite elsewhere and restarted Thunderbird. TB created a new abook.sqlite from the abook.mab file and I now have most of my old address data back. I can easily replace the few items that are missing.

Read this answer in context 👍 0

All Replies (1)

ska.adley
ska.adley Question owner
more options

Seçilmiş Həll

Solved it myself. Per a reply to a related problem, I found that I had abook.mab.bak that appeared to have my Personal Address book data in it. I saved a copy of it elsewhere and then renamed the file abook.mab. Then I saved a copy of abook.sqlite elsewhere and restarted Thunderbird. TB created a new abook.sqlite from the abook.mab file and I now have most of my old address data back. I can easily replace the few items that are missing.