AKICIF -- Thunderbird, author needs clue

[kinzel]

Well,

the new computer arrived and is now online, which is good. The old hard drive was not a total failure and it looks like I have found some of the thunderbird files .. but the last back-up was killed as the drive was going wonky so the best copy of those files I have was a week before that, I guess, if I can find that data among the oddities. I can use a clue or two on this, if anyone has one, like the best way to work this... should I install thunderbird and then try to dig out the old files ... I'm a lot of years from fiddling this kind of stuff on a regular basis and i can't even use my old tree progams ... sigh.

Will check back in between cooking and watching the Ravens ...

Comments

Re: T'Bird restoration

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Well ...
it is not being easy, I must say, locating the abook.mab in the back-up.

Re: T'Bird restoration

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... are you going from XP to XP, XP to Vista, or Vista to Vista? If you're dealing with Mac or Linux, I don't know the path structure. However, if you find the Mail folder, the abook.mab file should be in the same parent folder. Maybe :o)

One occasional problem is that some folks just back up their "My Documents" folder, and not everything under their login id folder. If that's the case here, your mail wasn't backed up. //edit: never mind - you said you found some of the T'bird files, so obviously you're doing a more thorough backup//