Closed Bug 136963 Opened 23 years ago Closed 16 years ago

corrupt address book should make a better attempt to recover

Categories

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

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Address Book & Contacts
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: alecf, Unassigned)

References

Details

So my friend's address book got totally corrupted (through no fault of mozilla, his system locked up and wrote garbage to the last 80% of the file) but mozilla silently stopped showing the address book in the panel. we ended up hand-editing the file, and removed the 100k of random characters, leaving the main morkdb and about 10 journalled entries.. I think that mork (or the consumer of mork) should make a better attempt to salvage this file... for instance, if mork encounters a good version string, and a good dictionary, and maybe even a few good journal entries, mozilla should just read as many good journal entries as possible, and rewrite the file with what it has. This would also handle the case of a file being prematurely truncated, etc.
Blocks: profile-corrupt
mass re-assign.
Assignee: racham → sspitzer
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
*** Bug 138160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 217151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 246487 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
QA Contact: nbaca
see Bug 93932 too
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
*** Bug 65654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 190573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 193369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 171022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 175105 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 282996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
see also Bug 231921
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
I see a lot of dupes, ending five years ago. OTOH my address book is not corrupt AFAICT, and I don't want to make it so in order to test this bug. Is someone still seeing this, and on which Sm version?
QA Contact: addressbook
No reply to comment #13 => WFM
Assignee: mail → nobody
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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