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New hard drive, lost contact list

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Had new hard drive installed but lost Thunderbird email contact list. Have old hard drive but don't know where to look, and forgot Thunderbird password. Help? Tom Mason


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Had new hard drive installed but lost Thunderbird email contact list. Have old hard drive but don't know where to look, and forgot Thunderbird password. Help? Tom Mason ''[Personal information removed by moderator. Please read [[Forum rules and guidelines]], thanks.]''

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If you have the old drive, look in the old profile, located by default in

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\8characters.default

and copy abook.mab (Personal Address Book) and history.mab (Collected Addresses) into the current profile, with TB closed.