279998 - Hidden Duplicate entries in Address Book that were suppose to be deleted.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 65086

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[George Worley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)

It appears that Address Cards that are deleted by FireFox (this also appears to
be happening in Mozilla too) aren't really deleted as they are still in the MAB
file.  A MAB file that contains 200 address cards when all 200 address cards are
deleted the MAB file is still the same size.  What brought this to my attention
is a 3rd part product called Dawn which synchronizes/imports/exports Address
books was giving me duplicate entries so I started investigating why and found
that the MAB file was still the same size and why I looked at the file all of
the addresses was still there.   When a address card is deleted it needs to be
gone the file size needs to go down or there needs to be some way to purge the
address book of all old records.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above
Actual Results:  
Duplicate addresses exported that were deleted.

Expected Results:  
Records that are deleted should be purged from the Address book.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

xref Bug 65086 (Mailnews and TB share a lot of code)

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Bug 65086 has now been moved to Core/Mailnews: Address Book component, therefore
I'm duping this one against it as they are the same.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65086 ***