221433 - Addressbooks removed from prefs.js after upgrade

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

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

Description

[Michael Belanger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

If you have multiple addressbooks -- say, personal, business, spammers, etc..
and you upgrade mozilla.  In this case, 1.5a to 1.5rc2.  The addressbooks are no
longer displayed in the addressbook gui.  The files seem to exist in the profile
directory.  Mozilla also does not know how to import mozilla addressbooks.  I
think that this would make for a good workaround,but in the mean time, I suspect
that I will need to manually add them back into prefs.js.  


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla 1.3 - Mozilla 1.5a
2. Create and populate multiple addressbooks - saving them as files other than
abook.mab.
3. upgrade Mozilla to 1.5rc(?)

Actual Results:  
All addressbooks other than the default, abook.mab were no longer being
displayed in the addressbook gui.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should check for additional addressbooks and kept or updated its pref.js
to keep them.

Comment 1

[Charles Fenwick]

*** Bug 221476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

Reporter : can you still see this bug in a 1.6b or even a 1.6 nightly ?

Thanks for your answer :)

Comment 3

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