486498 - Address book lost on sudden shutdown

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 148169

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Version 2.0.0.21 (20090302)

I have my thunderbird stored on a usb stick within a truecrypt partition (including the profile). I forget sometimes(getting less) to plugin the usb stick after hibernation. If now thunderbird crashes it usually destroys the adress book somehow. I couldn't really pin the bug but it happend 4 times in 2 months now. Of course it might happen that one thing or another breaks... but this broke on a constant basis. All other informations( like rss feeds, email accounts, settings, etc. were still available ) were still available! Just the adress book is gone ... completly.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use thunderbird profile on a usb stick
2.Save some adresses
3.a Suddenly disconnect the usb stick
3.b Hibernate the computer, remove the usb stick, boot the computer
3.c Let Thunderbird crash
Actual Results:  
Adress book is gone.

Expected Results:  
Adress book should be able to be restored (from former safed data) if really broken for some reason. More preferable is if it never breaks.

Addon's:
 - Adblock Plus
 - Attachment Sizes
 - Enigmail
 - Lightning
 - MinimizeToTray
 - Provider for Exchange 2007 WS
 - withAttach

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you provide crash ID ? (as explained here : http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback)

Does it also happens in safe mode ?

Comment 2

[bugzilla]

There is no crash id(if the address book crashes, half the computer crashes with it ...).

I didn't try out safe mode.

Comment 3

[bugzilla]

Oh: Next start is normal, just the address book is gone.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

is " I forget sometimes(getting less) to plugin the usb stick after hibernation" a necessary step to cause this?

Comment 5

[bugzilla]

I stated the possible ways which i found to make it happen in the bug report: 
3.a Suddenly disconnect the usb stick
3.b Hibernate the computer, remove the usb stick, boot the computer
3.c Let Thunderbird crash

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

this sounds like a testcase for bug 148169