Hi Michael,
Thank you for the offer, I have now resolved the problem with brute
force and ignorance. I renamed .thunderbird to oldthunderbird and
replaced .thunderbird in its entirety from the backup. Then I copied
the abook.mab, and the whole Mail folder from oldthunderbird into
.thunderbird. That worked to give me my mail all up to date and
working address book. I still have no idea what the problem was but
it was obviously something other than the address book itself.
Kind regards,
Julian
On 02/10/17 14:46, M. J. Everitt wrote:
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
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