Re: [LUG] Thunderbird Corrupt Address book / Profile

["M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@xxxxxxx>]

Have you looked to see whether there are any perl/python scripts which will parse the db file - is it a sqlite one, in which case, if you're willing I could have a hack at it, if you're not bothered about the data within it... Clearly Tbird itself has a zero-tolerance policy!

I do also have a former mozilla developer friend who might be able to shed some light on it .. perhaps you could send the troublesome file over to my personal address (above) if you feel happy with that.

Cheers,

Michael.

On 02/10/17 14:10, Julian Hall wrote:

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the reply. /home is now reporting 119Gb free so that's resolved. The more pressing issue now is the loss of my address book; when I say loss I mean it's still there, all 176k of it, but Thunderbird will only read the Collected Addresses which is baffling. Creating a new profile hasn't resolved it as I cannot load a Thunderbird address book into Thunderbird and Export says it will only export the Collected Addresses.

Kind regards,

Julian

On 02/10/17 11:45, Simon Avery wrote:

Hi

Running out of root space is never a fun thing to deal with.

On Nemo not allowing you to delete anything - this may be because it runs a recycle/trash bin affair. Actually rm the files from the command line to free up that space instantly. (Although sometimes if root's full you can't spawn any new processes, and odd things can happen like the OS not reporting free space once you delete the files).

As you've found, booting from a live cd if you have physical access, then mounting the root filesystem and selectively deleting a few megs/gigs is usually the easiest way.Â

S

On 1 October 2017 at 23:46, Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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