Re: Thunderbird address book recovery(Solved)

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On 05/15/2011 09:19 AM, Jon Ingason wrote:
> 2011-05-15 14:52, Mark LaPierre skrev:
>> On 05/14/2011 11:15 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>>> On 05/14/2011 10:50 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> No, how do I recover my address information from the backup file?
>>>> I recovered my abook.mab file from last nights backup.  All is
>>>> apparently will now.  I wonder what happened to cause the file to be
>>>> corrupted.  I didn't add/delete anything to/from the file as far as I know.
>>>>
>>>
>>>      On a related note - you can use gcontactsync to share with google
>>> contacts - works well ... and adds another backup ...
>>>
>>>       You can also export your address book to LDIF format for safekeeping.
>>
>> After a careful analysis of the items on the Thunderbird menus I see no
>> export option for the address book.  What method do you propose for
>> exporting the address book in LDIF format?
>>
>
> If you open the Addressbook under Tools then you find it under Tools in
> Addressbook menus
>

I found it.  I chose to export it as a tab separated file.  Thanks for 
the help.

See, remember to make backups often.  There's no excuse for not doing it 
when you can set it up as a chron job were the backup will happen 
unattended with no input from Joe User.  Without my backup this minor 
incident would have been a serious pain.

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