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Computer crashed, move hard drive to another computer. How do I find address book on the hard drive to import to new computer

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I need to retrieve contacts from my wifes thunderbird profile. all I have is the hard drive from the crashed computer. Where can I find the address book? I have to use two different computers as her new computer has no spot for another hard drive

I need to retrieve contacts from my wifes thunderbird profile. all I have is the hard drive from the crashed computer. Where can I find the address book? I have to use two different computers as her new computer has no spot for another hard drive

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Cant find the .mab files anywhere

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I can find thunderbird on the old hard drive, but not the profile data

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have you enabled viewing of hidden files and folders? see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7

Windows hides the application data folders and you must override the setting to find anything it contains.

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Check this article to locate your profile folder.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird