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Denc nañu waxtaan wii. Yónneel yeneen laaj soo soxlaa ndimbal.

all addresses gone from address book

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stanby
stanby
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There are no addresses in any of my address books today. All were there yesterday. The only unusual activity yesterday was to re-install Skype. I have uninstalled and re-installed Thunderbird, but it's the same. My gmail account is working normally using Firefox, all addresses are there. I've tried importing email addresses from gmail but the WLM contacts list is also blank in Thunderbird. Can anyone help, please ?

There are no addresses in any of my address books today. All were there yesterday. The only unusual activity yesterday was to re-install Skype. I have uninstalled and re-installed Thunderbird, but it's the same. My gmail account is working normally using Firefox, all addresses are there. I've tried importing email addresses from gmail but the WLM contacts list is also blank in Thunderbird. Can anyone help, please ?

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Zenos
Zenos
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Do you have any *.mab files in your profile, or even anywhere else on your HDD?

stanby
stanby Ki laajte
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Thanks for the reply, there are several abook.mab files, a couple in Windows.old, and some in AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird. Could I have some help on what to do next please ?

stanby
stanby Ki laajte
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Thank you Zenos, I've managed to replace the abook.mab file with an old one on the HDD and most of the lost addresses are back.

johnbowen
johnbowen
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I was able to restore my book.mab from a backup - just curious as to why this just happened yesterday (March 2) to me? The corrupted file timestamp was around 10pm Pacific Time.