[PLUG] Thunderbird Address Book Lost in Upgrade

[Russell Senior]

Fwiw, I went poking in my Ubuntu 22.04 install and it seems to be in
$HOMEDIR/.thunderbird/$myprofile/abook.sqlite

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Russell Senior
russell at pdxlinux.org

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 2:44 PM Michael Ewan <michaelewan15 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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