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[LUG] Thunderbird Corrupt Address book / Profile

 

Hi All,

In trying to resolve the issues I have been having with my NAS I backed up a lot of data to my /home folder .That caused major problems as it went below the minimum space Linux requires to run properly - without any warning which I am very unhappy about but that's another issue. I could only resolve that by booting with a Linux Mint Live CD and deleting some data - prior to that nemo wouldn't even run to allow me to delete anything. Anyway, I /thought/ that had resolved the problem, however Thunderbird has lost the ability to load my address book, except Collected Addresses. I know the information is all there as abook.mab is 176k and I can see the addresses in a text editor. I've tried to create a new profile, but that hasn't worked as Thunderbird won't import it's own address books, only other formats.

I do have a full backup as of a week ago, but without knowing what file has presumably become corrupt I don't know what to replace.

All ideas welcome.

Kind regards,

Julian

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