300918 - Got error message saying that Personal Address Book was corrupted

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 299346

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Mark Monteiro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/1.0 ( Windows NT Professional)

Power fluctuation caused PC to restart Got error message saying that Personal
Address Book was corrupted and saved as ABOOK.MAB.BAK. How do you restore the
address book in intact form?

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.found the .bak file
2. Tried to import into Thunderbird
3. File imported but without data

Actual Results:  
I got depressed.

Expected Results:  
The address book should not have gotten corrupted to begin with.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Bugzilla is not for support questions.
Please use the mozillazine.org Forums, The IRC channel or the newsgroups for 
that.

Locate your corrupt abook.mab.bak file in your thunderbird profile (not 
application directory). Create a backup for this file, open it with a text 
editor and look if you can repair it.
Now overwrite the abook.mab which got created by Thunderbird.

-> invalid (support question)

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

actually, it's quite possible it's not corrupted at all, but was just locked for
some reason. See bug 299346. You could try shutting down, making a copy of the
current abook.mab, and then copy the .bak file over the abook.mab, and restart
thunderbird.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299346 ***