[PLUG] Thunderbird Address Book Lost in Upgrade

Michael Ewan michaelewan15 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 22:43:56 UTC 2024


It sounds like you have the old drive, you could get a cheap usb->sata
adapter and look down the .mozilla path in your old home.  I do not
know where Thunderbird keeps the address book.

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 2:19 PM Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My biggest problem with Linux is, it just works. Forever. Until it doesn't.
> I usually live in the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" world. So, I'm not
> big on updating things. By the time I do, I've pretty much forgotten all
> that came before.
>
> I've been running Linux Mint on my main desktop since 2017. I finally had
> too many things that wouldn't update any more (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and
> sites kept giving me grief about it. I finally decided to upgrade, so I got
> a new 500GB drive, put it in the box, and loaded fresh Mint 22 (Wilma?) Now
> trying to recover things. I had copies of my profiles for Firefox and
> Thunderbird. Per some guidance I found on the web, I copied the files from
> the old profiles to the new profiles and all appeared to be good. Got all
> my bookmarks, passwords, email, etc.
>
> One thing I did lose is my address books in Thunderbird. Unfortunately, I
> do not know what version was running on the old machine. The new machine is
> running V125.5.0. Any hints on how I can recover my old address books?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael


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