On Jul 12, 9:04 am, Martin Feitag <[email protected]> wrote: > Morton schrieb: > > > > > On Jul 11, 7:03 pm, Chris Ilias<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/07/09 6:06 PM, Morton wrote: > > >>> A so-called computer tech savaged my newer laptop, and I am trying to > >>> put the pieces together. I have many of my e-mail addresses in my older > >>> laptop, SeaMonkey of course. i tried to drag the address book listings > >>> to my CD burner and burn a CD-R, to transfer to my newer laptop. It did > >>> not work,as the address book is apparently not draggable. > > >>> Does anyone know the file name of the address book in SeaMonkey? I > >>> thought that if I knew the file name, I could try and gat that file into > >>> my CD-R software. I hesitate to use USB cables to transfer everything. > > >>> Any help, or any suggestions, would be greatly appreciated. > > >> abook.mab > >> See<http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#transferring_addresses> > > >> -- > >> Chris Ilias<http://ilias.ca> > >> List-owner: support-firefox, support-thunderbird, test-multimedia > >> Keeper of the Knowledge Base:<https://support.mozilla.com/kb/> > > > Hi Chris, > > Thanks a lot for the help. I found that my address book is in fact on > > my loused-up laptop's hard drive, but I can only find it in narrative > > form. I would like to get all the addresses back into my SeaMonkey > > address book folder, but cannot figure out how to do it. As they are > > now, they are almost useless. Any further help would be gratefully > > received. > > Mort > > Chris already gave you the link! > >> abook.mab > >> See<http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#transferring_addresses> > This link/site says: > To restore that data in a new location, open the SeaMonkey address book > window, so SeaMonkey creates it's own abook.mab file. Close SeaMonkey > and replace the newly created abook.mab with your saved one. To restore > additional address books, use the Import menu to import the LDIF files > you saved. > > regards > Martin
Thanks Martin. I'll try it. I'm so upset at the havoc wreaked by the guy who was "fixing" my laptop. I have to recreate or restore my address book, most of my programs, my bookmarks, etc..All this despite doing regular external backups, etc.. Thanks again. Mort _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
