How do I get my old address book when creating a new profile?
For some reason my profile quit working on a Win7 computer. I can get my e-mails back but copying the abook.mab over doesn't recover my address book. How can I get my contacts back without having to enter them manually?
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Were you using just Personal Address Book, or had you other user-defined address books?
I think you might need history.mab too (this represents Collected Addresses) and any user-defined address books would have names such as abook-1.mab and so forth.
But you'll need to import these user-defined address books, and the tool I know for doing this is
Gewysig op deur Zenos
That didn't help. I would have used whatever the default was for saving addresses. I tried copying history.mab along with abook.mab to the new profile but I still don't have my addresses. I tried to import them but TB I really don't know where they are found. What file or files contain that info other than the ones already identified?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_address_books_between_profiles
If the above article doesn't help you're either doing something wrong, or something is wrong with your address book(s).