136296 - All entries in address book are gone

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130310

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020406
BuildID:    2002040608

I noticed in this build when I opened the Address Book that there were no
entries at all (there should be). Abook.mab appears to be intact and a clean
install was done as usual before. Haven't tried a new profile yet (though I
doubt that'll do anything)--if it works, I'll kill this bug. This bug was also
seen by someone @ MZine (see
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback/read.php?f=2&i=838&t=838), so it can't be
native to me. Weirdest of all, the addresses still can be called up from mail
compositon.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

Tested with a new profile on a clean install of 2002040903. No luck; Moz was
installed, a new profile was made, entries in the book were created, Moz was
closed, and Windows restarted. Upon return all entries are gone. This is quite
serious and there is some discussion (WFMs and confirms) @ the forum.

Comment 2

[Ron Thigpen]

I have also been seeing this behavior.  I may be able to shed some light on
this.  It looks as though the Personal Address Book .mab data is not being
reloaded under some conditions.  

Versions:  unsure when this began, is present in the 1.0.0 RC1 build from
2002-04-16 (winNT4 sea installer version).

Pre-conditions:
Open Addres Book application with default address .mab data (Personal Address
Book) loaded.
Close sidebar pane, including Address Books selector pane.
Close Address Book window (leave Mozilla browser or mailnews running)
Re-open Address Book application. 

Result: (100% reproducable)
No address book .mab data is loaded. 
Address list and address detail panes are empty.
Calling functions (via buttons or menus) for New Card, New List or Properties
produces no result.

Impact: 
If user is unaware that there is a sidebar that can be opened to allow Address
Books to be selected and loaded, it will appear as if the data is missing and
the application is unresponsive. 

Comment 3

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

Thank you for responding; oddly, this bug has gotten no attention since its
inception. It is a simple reload problem, probably a single line of code (which
from what I've gathered from MZine and other sources is on NT and MacOS
8...changing OS to ALL). Heh, I never bothered to open the sidebar, assuming
that Address Book couldn't access data period, but rather the problem is that it
doesn't load it on startup, and you must use a means to reload it...just as bad. 

Comment 4

[Tom Mraz]

It should really block the M1.0 release!

Comment 5

[jlarsen]

Ok this is definatly a dup of 130310. In both cases, the <vbox id=sidebar-box">
needs to be changed to <vbox id="folderPaneBox"> in order for it to load the
contents when it is collaped.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130310 ***

Comment 6

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

'K, didn't see it. GJ johnlar...

Comment 7

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified duplicate.