Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Ed Mullen wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: One day, the addressbook will stick in Windows HTH Hi Daniel, More frustration now. When I click on the address book in the l.l. corner, I get only Collected Address Book, and no Personal Address book. When I try to import, I click on Address Book, and get 4 choices, none of which works :Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, or text(incl LDIF, whatever that is). When I type in the folder name of each of my found abook. files, none of them gets imported to anything. Wow. It's like that old vaudeville joke about directions: You can't get there from here. Thanks again, Daniel. Mort If at first you don't succeed, Mort, 1. In SeaMonkey, save an email address to your current abook.mab. This will give the file today's dat, so you can tell which one is your real abook. Tools-Export the addressbook to an .ldif file. Note its location 2. Do a Windows Find File and Folder for abook.mab. 3. Change the name of your current abook (the one with today's date!!) to something distinctive, keeping the mab trailer. 4. Move one of the other abook.mab's to the location of the original abook.mab. 5. Start SeaMonkey and see if you can address an email. If this abook is not the one you want, repeat steps 4 and 5 for the other abook's. When you find the right one, then, if you want, Tools-Import the addressbook that you started with and that you exported as an ldif file. See how that goes. Daniel Hi Daniel, Again, many thanks. I do not have a current abook. icon in my SM. I have only a Collected Addresses file icon in my SM. Search reveals 3 abook files on my hard drive, each with 236 KB, and each with a long run-on text. If I could enter a new address into one of them, which I cannot, then I would never be able to find it. Mort are you looking at the abooks outside of SM?? If so, stop wasting your time, they will always look like garbage. It only matters what happens to them inside of SeaMonkey The frustrating thing is that those 3 abook files are there someplace on my hard drive, but not in SM where they should be. At least I still have my Collected Addresses icon and file. If you did a Windows Find File and Folder, looking for abook.mab, and then set Windows up so that you can see all the sub-folders, then you would be able to import them into SeaMonkey, to see if they are useful. Hi Daniel, Again, many thanks. 1) I looked up several books, Googled, etc., and still do not know how to see all the subfolders. After some Googleing, try Open Windows Explorer. click on Organize - Folder search options View (.) show hidden files and folders (I'm not using Windows, so cannot check these instructions, but I'm guessing they are o.k., but might need a bit of adjustment dependent on which version of Windows you are using.) 2) When I manage to get one of my abook.mab into where it should be it is gone the next time I boot up. When you find your abook files, open SeaMonkey and click on Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, then select Server Settings for your Mail Account. Look at Local directory (bottom of screen) for the location of your profile. If needs be, click into that space and arrow across to the right so you can see the full address. Write down the location. Close this Window, close SeaMonkey. Open your Windows Explorer and make your way to the location you noted. You may even have to go a level or two lower to find your abook.mab file as you noted its location in the search a couple of days ago. Right click on your abook.mab and select to rename it, then give it a name you will remember. Then, in Windows Explorer, locate one of the other abook.mab files and cut it from where it is and paste it where the now re-named abook.mab was. Open Seamonkey, click on the Address book Icon in the bottom left of the SeaMonkey screen and see if it displays correctly. If not, close SeaMonkey and Cut Paste another Addressbook into the required location, and so on until either you find the abook you want or you've tried them all. Report Back. Daniel Hi Daniel, More frustration. Searching for Windows Explorer reveals the following on-screen message: Windows cannot find Windows Explorer. Can you imagine. I still cannot find the way to show hidden files and folders nor subfolders, after following your instructions. I have a post-graduate degree and speak 4 languages well and 2 more somewhat, but that seems not to matter.The various abook.mab that I have are all dated 2007 and seem to be identical, all in running text form, and all seemingly refusing to go where they should. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/win_fcab_show_file_extensions.mspx Is that what you're needing? Trust Microsoft!!! Ed, while I was waiting for that page to display, I read the link in the location bar and saw the bit where it says
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Mort wrote: More frustration. Searching for Windows Explorer reveals the following on-screen message: Windows cannot find Windows Explorer. Can you imagine. The Windows Explorer program file is explorer.exe. To run it: Click Start button Hover over Programs Go up to and click on Accessories Click Windows Explorer I still cannot find the way to show hidden files and folders nor subfolders, after following your instructions. http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz_profile.php Scroll to the bottom and read the Note. There is a link in that paragraph to the Microsoft article I cited in my other post. -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: One day, the addressbook will stick in Windows HTH Hi Daniel, More frustration now. When I click on the address book in the l.l. corner, I get only Collected Address Book, and no Personal Address book. When I try to import, I click on Address Book, and get 4 choices, none of which works :Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, or text(incl LDIF, whatever that is). When I type in the folder name of each of my found abook. files, none of them gets imported to anything. Wow. It's like that old vaudeville joke about directions: You can't get there from here. Thanks again, Daniel. Mort If at first you don't succeed, Mort, 1. In SeaMonkey, save an email address to your current abook.mab. This will give the file today's dat, so you can tell which one is your real abook. Tools-Export the addressbook to an .ldif file. Note its location 2. Do a Windows Find File and Folder for abook.mab. 3. Change the name of your current abook (the one with today's date!!) to something distinctive, keeping the mab trailer. 4. Move one of the other abook.mab's to the location of the original abook.mab. 5. Start SeaMonkey and see if you can address an email. If this abook is not the one you want, repeat steps 4 and 5 for the other abook's. When you find the right one, then, if you want, Tools-Import the addressbook that you started with and that you exported as an ldif file. See how that goes. Daniel Hi Daniel, Again, many thanks. I do not have a current abook. icon in my SM. I have only a Collected Addresses file icon in my SM. Search reveals 3 abook files on my hard drive, each with 236 KB, and each with a long run-on text. If I could enter a new address into one of them, which I cannot, then I would never be able to find it. Mort are you looking at the abooks outside of SM?? If so, stop wasting your time, they will always look like garbage. It only matters what happens to them inside of SeaMonkey The frustrating thing is that those 3 abook files are there someplace on my hard drive, but not in SM where they should be. At least I still have my Collected Addresses icon and file. If you did a Windows Find File and Folder, looking for abook.mab, and then set Windows up so that you can see all the sub-folders, then you would be able to import them into SeaMonkey, to see if they are useful. Hi Daniel, Again, many thanks. 1) I looked up several books, Googled, etc., and still do not know how to see all the subfolders. After some Googleing, try Open Windows Explorer. click on Organize - Folder search options View (.) show hidden files and folders (I'm not using Windows, so cannot check these instructions, but I'm guessing they are o.k., but might need a bit of adjustment dependent on which version of Windows you are using.) 2) When I manage to get one of my abook.mab into where it should be it is gone the next time I boot up. When you find your abook files, open SeaMonkey and click on Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, then select Server Settings for your Mail Account. Look at Local directory (bottom of screen) for the location of your profile. If needs be, click into that space and arrow across to the right so you can see the full address. Write down the location. Close this Window, close SeaMonkey. Open your Windows Explorer and make your way to the location you noted. You may even have to go a level or two lower to find your abook.mab file as you noted its location in the search a couple of days ago. Right click on your abook.mab and select to rename it, then give it a name you will remember. Then, in Windows Explorer, locate one of the other abook.mab files and cut it from where it is and paste it where the now re-named abook.mab was. Open Seamonkey, click on the Address book Icon in the bottom left of the SeaMonkey screen and see if it displays correctly. If not, close SeaMonkey and Cut Paste another Addressbook into the required location, and so on until either you find the abook you want or you've tried them all. Report Back. Daniel Hi Daniel, More frustration. Searching for Windows Explorer reveals the following on-screen message: Windows cannot find Windows Explorer. Can you imagine. I still cannot find the way to show hidden files and folders nor subfolders, after following your instructions. I have a post-graduate degree and speak 4 languages well and 2 more somewhat, but that seems not to matter.The various abook.mab that I have are all dated 2007 and seem to be identical, all in running text form, and all seemingly refusing to go where they should. Once more, the person Daphne in MozillaZine who supposedly ha sthe solution to this problem has still not answered my post there. Mamma mia. Again, thanks for your wonderful efforts. Mort ___ support-seamonkey mailing list
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: One day, the addressbook will stick in Windows HTH Hi Daniel, More frustration now. When I click on the address book in the l.l. corner, I get only Collected Address Book, and no Personal Address book. When I try to import, I click on Address Book, and get 4 choices, none of which works :Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, or text(incl LDIF, whatever that is). When I type in the folder name of each of my found abook. files, none of them gets imported to anything. Wow. It's like that old vaudeville joke about directions: You can't get there from here. Thanks again, Daniel. Mort If at first you don't succeed, Mort, 1. In SeaMonkey, save an email address to your current abook.mab. This will give the file today's dat, so you can tell which one is your real abook. Tools-Export the addressbook to an .ldif file. Note its location 2. Do a Windows Find File and Folder for abook.mab. 3. Change the name of your current abook (the one with today's date!!) to something distinctive, keeping the mab trailer. 4. Move one of the other abook.mab's to the location of the original abook.mab. 5. Start SeaMonkey and see if you can address an email. If this abook is not the one you want, repeat steps 4 and 5 for the other abook's. When you find the right one, then, if you want, Tools-Import the addressbook that you started with and that you exported as an ldif file. See how that goes. Daniel Hi Daniel, Again, many thanks. I do not have a current abook. icon in my SM. I have only a Collected Addresses file icon in my SM. Search reveals 3 abook files on my hard drive, each with 236 KB, and each with a long run-on text. If I could enter a new address into one of them, which I cannot, then I would never be able to find it. Mort are you looking at the abooks outside of SM?? If so, stop wasting your time, they will always look like garbage. It only matters what happens to them inside of SeaMonkey The frustrating thing is that those 3 abook files are there someplace on my hard drive, but not in SM where they should be. At least I still have my Collected Addresses icon and file. If you did a Windows Find File and Folder, looking for abook.mab, and then set Windows up so that you can see all the sub-folders, then you would be able to import them into SeaMonkey, to see if they are useful. Daniel So, with all the good will in the world, I cannot carry out your latest advice. I did try. Mort ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: One day, the addressbook will stick in Windows HTH Hi Daniel, More frustration now. When I click on the address book in the l.l. corner, I get only Collected Address Book, and no Personal Address book. When I try to import, I click on Address Book, and get 4 choices, none of which works :Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, or text(incl LDIF, whatever that is). When I type in the folder name of each of my found abook. files, none of them gets imported to anything. Wow. It's like that old vaudeville joke about directions: You can't get there from here. Thanks again, Daniel. Mort If at first you don't succeed, Mort, 1. In SeaMonkey, save an email address to your current abook.mab. This will give the file today's dat, so you can tell which one is your real abook. Tools-Export the addressbook to an .ldif file. Note its location 2. Do a Windows Find File and Folder for abook.mab. 3. Change the name of your current abook (the one with today's date!!) to something distinctive, keeping the mab trailer. 4. Move one of the other abook.mab's to the location of the original abook.mab. 5. Start SeaMonkey and see if you can address an email. If this abook is not the one you want, repeat steps 4 and 5 for the other abook's. When you find the right one, then, if you want, Tools-Import the addressbook that you started with and that you exported as an ldif file. See how that goes. Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: One day, the addressbook will stick in Windows HTH Hi Daniel, More frustration now. When I click on the address book in the l.l. corner, I get only Collected Address Book, and no Personal Address book. When I try to import, I click on Address Book, and get 4 choices, none of which works :Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, or text(incl LDIF, whatever that is). When I type in the folder name of each of my found abook. files, none of them gets imported to anything. Wow. It's like that old vaudeville joke about directions: You can't get there from here. Thanks again, Daniel. Mort If at first you don't succeed, Mort, 1. In SeaMonkey, save an email address to your current abook.mab. This will give the file today's dat, so you can tell which one is your real abook. Tools-Export the addressbook to an .ldif file. Note its location 2. Do a Windows Find File and Folder for abook.mab. 3. Change the name of your current abook (the one with today's date!!) to something distinctive, keeping the mab trailer. 4. Move one of the other abook.mab's to the location of the original abook.mab. 5. Start SeaMonkey and see if you can address an email. If this abook is not the one you want, repeat steps 4 and 5 for the other abook's. When you find the right one, then, if you want, Tools-Import the addressbook that you started with and that you exported as an ldif file. See how that goes. Daniel Hi Daniel, Again, many thanks. I do not have a current abook. icon in my SM. I have only a Collected Addresses file icon in my SM. Search reveals 3 abook files on my hard drive, each with 236 KB, and each with a long run-on text. If I could enter a new address into one of them, which I cannot, then I would never be able to find it. The frustrating thing is that those 3 abook files are there someplace on my hard drive, but not in SM where they should be. At least I still have my Collected Addresses icon and file. So, with all the good will in the world, I cannot carry out your latest advice. I did try. Mort Hi Daniel, The plot gets thicker. I imported the file abook.bam into SM, and then got the icon abook. However, the total number of contacts listed was 0(zero). Mort ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort, in SeaMonkey, down in the bottom left of the screen, you should see four (or five) icons. Double click on the one for the Address Book. Are all your addresses shown?? Do your Collected Addresses show up?? If so, whilst you have it open, click on Tools-Export, and make yourself a copyjust to be safe. Report back. -- Daniel Hi Daniel, When I double click on the address book icon at lower left, I get 191 Collected Addresses, in hierarchal form. However, I get no Personal Addresses at all. After the brief fix, the Personal had 121 addresses. If my Collected keeps working, then it's not a total loss. It would be nice though, to have my Personal back, and to know how to prevent its disappearance. I'm in computers for 14 years, and have never run across this problem in this recurrent manner. Thanks for your help and your patience. Mort O.K. Mort, something I should have got you to do, a while back, is a Windows Find Files or Folders for abook.* (without the quotes) and set it to search your entire hard-drive. This should let you know if there is more than one file on your computer. Report back. Daniel Hi Daniel, There are 6 abook. files, the last is abook2: Three are 237 KB MAB files of My Documents or Documents and Settings of various kinds: Mozilla, desktop, etc. Two are 2 KB shortcuts. Five of the six give a lengthy bulky text of the addresses in one gigantic run-on paragraph. The sixth gives an endless loop of ask to open with SeaMonkey. It seems that the abook. is there all right. How do I get it in hierarchal form in SeaMonkey where it belongs? Why did it get there only once after your previous advice, and then go away again? Once, several years ago, I had a similar problem, and downloading the abook. file from my backup external hard drive just gave one more huge text paragraph. Daniel, thanks ever so much for your patience and skill, which I really do appreciate. Mort Not skill, Mort, just that I'm having a problem with my abook in SM on Win7, which is another reason why I should have had you look for them earlier!! O.K., note down the locations of the files (one will match the location you've already notes, this is the version your SM is currently using.). Now open SM and click on the Addressbook Icon down in the bottom left of screen. In the Addressbook, select Tools-Import, and try to import each of the other five addressbooks. Some will work, some will not! When you have tried all five, export the addressbook to somewhere that you remember. If this problem returns, all you should then have to do is open your addressbook by clicking on the Icon and then select Tools-Import, and import this addressbook that you have just exported. One day, the addressbook will stick in Windows HTH Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Daniel wrote: One day, the addressbook will stick in Windows HTH Hi Daniel, More frustration now. When I click on the address book in the l.l. corner, I get only Collected Address Book, and no Personal Address book. When I try to import, I click on Address Book, and get 4 choices, none of which works :Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, or text(incl LDIF, whatever that is). When I type in the folder name of each of my found abook. files, none of them gets imported to anything. Wow. It's like that old vaudeville joke about directions: You can't get there from here. Thanks again, Daniel. Mort ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort, in SeaMonkey, down in the bottom left of the screen, you should see four (or five) icons. Double click on the one for the Address Book. Are all your addresses shown?? Do your Collected Addresses show up?? If so, whilst you have it open, click on Tools-Export, and make yourself a copyjust to be safe. Report back. -- Daniel Hi Daniel, When I double click on the address book icon at lower left, I get 191 Collected Addresses, in hierarchal form. However, I get no Personal Addresses at all. After the brief fix, the Personal had 121 addresses. If my Collected keeps working, then it's not a total loss. It would be nice though, to have my Personal back, and to know how to prevent its disappearance. I'm in computers for 14 years, and have never run across this problem in this recurrent manner. Thanks for your help and your patience. Mort O.K. Mort, something I should have got you to do, a while back, is a Windows Find Files or Folders for abook.* (without the quotes) and set it to search your entire hard-drive. This should let you know if there is more than one file on your computer. Report back. Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab P.S.
Mort wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Hi, I suddenly have the above problem,, and cannot solve it. I'm running Windows XP, SP 3, and the latest SeaMonkey. A Google search revealed that many people have this problem, and there is no solution out there. I can pick up some of the e-mail addresses from previous e-mails, but probably not all. The addresses are important to me. I do a full monthly backup, but in the past with a similar problem, a download to my hard drive from the external backup dd not help, as it gave a long text listing of the names and URLs, not the hierarchal lists in the address book. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Mort Linder Mort, what's the problem?? Are you saying that when you are composing an email, you are unable to open your email address book?? What do you see?? If this is not your problem, can you have another go at explaining it?? Hi Daniel, I'm running the latest SeaMonkey and Windows XP Pro. My e-mail section has a personal address book and a collected address book. Suddenly, without warning, when I turn on SeaMonkey and then click on the e-mail icon, I get an on-screen announcement Cannot download personal address book abook.mab. It is either write only, or is tied up by another program. The personal address book bar is absent. Searching for the abook.mab gives no answers. Now, many of my e-mail addresses are in the collected list, but not all. Some cannot be retrieved from old e-mails because many of those were deleted. I searched on line for this malady, and found many posts from people who have the problem. However, every suggestion of how to fix it was followed by posts that the fix did not work. I have antivirus, antispyware, and a firewall. Where did the missing file go? Why? Mostly, how can I get it back? Thanks a lot. Mort O.K., Mort, lets try a few things! First have a look at Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, select Server Settings on your email account. At the bottom of this screen is the Local Directory location, where SeaMonkey is looking for your profile. Note down this location. Next, close out of SeaMonkey, including the Quick Launch feature if you use it. Wait a minute or so, (just to make sure SM has closed) then give the three finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and ensure SeaMonkey is not still listed in the running processes. Now, ensure Windows is set to display all sub-folders and then go to the location you noted in the first step. your address book, abook.mab, should be in a sub-folder. Locate it, right click on it and check out the properties to ensure it is not marked as Read Only. Report back. Hi Daniel, SUCCESS, THANKS. Thanks for the wonderful help. I did find the Local Directory location, but the right ending was off the screen, so I had to hunt for it. I did find the abook.ABM file, and it was not marked read only. It has 500 KB, so it could have all my e-mail addresses in it. I then shut down SeaMonkey, waited a few minutes, and the 3-finger salute gave a blank, so SM was not running. When I clicked on open, the address book opened on-screen as a text message, not as an hierarchical list. However, when I returned to e-mail and clicked on address book, there it was in all its glory, just where it is supposed to be. I am so happy that I did not lose all my addresses., and I'm most grateful to you. It's a particularly trying time for me, as my dear wife just passed away 3 days ago, and I'm still trying to e-mail friends and family. Now I can do so. Thanks again, and please excuse the lengthy post. Regards, Mort P.S. Now my collected addresses have all disappeared. I'd rather have the Personal addresses, which I do. Sorry for your sad news, Mort. Glad I could help! Hi Daniel, Success turns to failure. The next time I turned on my PC, I got the same message again that it could not download my abook.mab file. I do not know what is happening, and sure would appreciate getting a fix that lasted. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Mort P.S. My Collected Addresses came back. Strange. Thanks again. Mort, in SeaMonkey, down in the bottom left of the screen, you should see four (or five) icons. Double click on the one for the Address Book. Are all your addresses shown?? Do your Collected Addresses show up?? If so, whilst you have it open, click on Tools-Export, and make yourself a copyjust to be safe. Report back. -- Daniel To get return e-mail address remove nospam. from address line From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, 16th Edition Amazing Anagrams Public Relations == Crap, built on lies Marriage == a grim era ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab
Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Hi, I suddenly have the above problem,, and cannot solve it. I'm running Windows XP, SP 3, and the latest SeaMonkey. A Google search revealed that many people have this problem, and there is no solution out there. I can pick up some of the e-mail addresses from previous e-mails, but probably not all. The addresses are important to me. I do a full monthly backup, but in the past with a similar problem, a download to my hard drive from the external backup dd not help, as it gave a long text listing of the names and URLs, not the hierarchal lists in the address book. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Mort Linder Mort, what's the problem?? Are you saying that when you are composing an email, you are unable to open your email address book?? What do you see?? If this is not your problem, can you have another go at explaining it?? Hi Daniel, I'm running the latest SeaMonkey and Windows XP Pro. My e-mail section has a personal address book and a collected address book. Suddenly, without warning, when I turn on SeaMonkey and then click on the e-mail icon, I get an on-screen announcement Cannot download personal address book abook.mab. It is either write only, or is tied up by another program. The personal address book bar is absent. Searching for the abook.mab gives no answers. Now, many of my e-mail addresses are in the collected list, but not all. Some cannot be retrieved from old e-mails because many of those were deleted. I searched on line for this malady, and found many posts from people who have the problem. However, every suggestion of how to fix it was followed by posts that the fix did not work. I have antivirus, antispyware, and a firewall. Where did the missing file go? Why? Mostly, how can I get it back? Thanks a lot. Mort O.K., Mort, lets try a few things! First have a look at Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, select Server Settings on your email account. At the bottom of this screen is the Local Directory location, where SeaMonkey is looking for your profile. Note down this location. Next, close out of SeaMonkey, including the Quick Launch feature if you use it. Wait a minute or so, (just to make sure SM has closed) then give the three finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and ensure SeaMonkey is not still listed in the running processes. Now, ensure Windows is set to display all sub-folders and then go to the location you noted in the first step. your address book, abook.mab, should be in a sub-folder. Locate it, right click on it and check out the properties to ensure it is not marked as Read Only. Report back. Hi Daniel, SUCCESS, THANKS. Thanks for the wonderful help. I did find the Local Directory location, but the right ending was off the screen, so I had to hunt for it. I did find the abook.ABM file, and it was not marked read only. It has 500 KB, so it could have all my e-mail addresses in it. I then shut down SeaMonkey, waited a few minutes, and the 3-finger salute gave a blank, so SM was not running. When I clicked on open, the address book opened on-screen as a text message, not as an hierarchical list. However, when I returned to e-mail and clicked on address book, there it was in all its glory, just where it is supposed to be. I am so happy that I did not lose all my addresses., and I'm most grateful to you. It's a particularly trying time for me, as my dear wife just passed away 3 days ago, and I'm still trying to e-mail friends and family. Now I can do so. Thanks again, and please excuse the lengthy post. Regards, Mort P.S. Now my collected addresses have all disappeared. I'd rather have the Personal addresses, which I do. Sorry for your sad news, Mort. Glad I could help! -- Daniel To get return e-mail address remove nospam. from address line From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, 16th Edition Amazing Anagrams Public Relations == Crap, built on lies Marriage == a grim era ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab
Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Hi, I suddenly have the above problem,, and cannot solve it. I'm running Windows XP, SP 3, and the latest SeaMonkey. A Google search revealed that many people have this problem, and there is no solution out there. I can pick up some of the e-mail addresses from previous e-mails, but probably not all. The addresses are important to me. I do a full monthly backup, but in the past with a similar problem, a download to my hard drive from the external backup dd not help, as it gave a long text listing of the names and URLs, not the hierarchal lists in the address book. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Mort Linder Mort, what's the problem?? Are you saying that when you are composing an email, you are unable to open your email address book?? What do you see?? If this is not your problem, can you have another go at explaining it?? Hi Daniel, I'm running the latest SeaMonkey and Windows XP Pro. My e-mail section has a personal address book and a collected address book. Suddenly, without warning, when I turn on SeaMonkey and then click on the e-mail icon, I get an on-screen announcement Cannot download personal address book abook.mab. It is either write only, or is tied up by another program. The personal address book bar is absent. Searching for the abook.mab gives no answers. Now, many of my e-mail addresses are in the collected list, but not all. Some cannot be retrieved from old e-mails because many of those were deleted. I searched on line for this malady, and found many posts from people who have the problem. However, every suggestion of how to fix it was followed by posts that the fix did not work. I have antivirus, antispyware, and a firewall. Where did the missing file go? Why? Mostly, how can I get it back? Thanks a lot. Mort O.K., Mort, lets try a few things! First have a look at Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, select Server Settings on your email account. At the bottom of this screen is the Local Directory location, where SeaMonkey is looking for your profile. Note down this location. Next, close out of SeaMonkey, including the Quick Launch feature if you use it. Wait a minute or so, (just to make sure SM has closed) then give the three finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and ensure SeaMonkey is not still listed in the running processes. Now, ensure Windows is set to display all sub-folders and then go to the location you noted in the first step. your address book, abook.mab, should be in a sub-folder. Locate it, right click on it and check out the properties to ensure it is not marked as Read Only. Report back. Hi Daniel, SUCCESS, THANKS. Thanks for the wonderful help. I did find the Local Directory location, but the right ending was off the screen, so I had to hunt for it. I did find the abook.ABM file, and it was not marked read only. It has 500 KB, so it could have all my e-mail addresses in it. I then shut down SeaMonkey, waited a few minutes, and the 3-finger salute gave a blank, so SM was not running. When I clicked on open, the address book opened on-screen as a text message, not as an hierarchical list. However, when I returned to e-mail and clicked on address book, there it was in all its glory, just where it is supposed to be. I am so happy that I did not lose all my addresses., and I'm most grateful to you. It's a particularly trying time for me, as my dear wife just passed away 3 days ago, and I'm still trying to e-mail friends and family. Now I can do so. Thanks again, and please excuse the lengthy post. Regards, Mort P.S. Now my collected addresses have all disappeared. I'd rather have the Personal addresses, which I do. Sorry for your sad news, Mort. Glad I could help! Hi Daniel, Success turns to failure. The next time I turned on my PC, I got the same message again that it could not download my abook.mab file. I do not know what is happening, and sure would appreciate getting a fix that lasted. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Mort ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab
Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Hi, I suddenly have the above problem,, and cannot solve it. I'm running Windows XP, SP 3, and the latest SeaMonkey. A Google search revealed that many people have this problem, and there is no solution out there. I can pick up some of the e-mail addresses from previous e-mails, but probably not all. The addresses are important to me. I do a full monthly backup, but in the past with a similar problem, a download to my hard drive from the external backup dd not help, as it gave a long text listing of the names and URLs, not the hierarchal lists in the address book. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Mort Linder Mort, what's the problem?? Are you saying that when you are composing an email, you are unable to open your email address book?? What do you see?? If this is not your problem, can you have another go at explaining it?? Hi Daniel, I'm running the latest SeaMonkey and Windows XP Pro. My e-mail section has a personal address book and a collected address book. Suddenly, without warning, when I turn on SeaMonkey and then click on the e-mail icon, I get an on-screen announcement Cannot download personal address book abook.mab. It is either write only, or is tied up by another program. The personal address book bar is absent. Searching for the abook.mab gives no answers. Now, many of my e-mail addresses are in the collected list, but not all. Some cannot be retrieved from old e-mails because many of those were deleted. I searched on line for this malady, and found many posts from people who have the problem. However, every suggestion of how to fix it was followed by posts that the fix did not work. I have antivirus, antispyware, and a firewall. Where did the missing file go? Why? Mostly, how can I get it back? Thanks a lot. Mort O.K., Mort, lets try a few things! First have a look at Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, select Server Settings on your email account. At the bottom of this screen is the Local Directory location, where SeaMonkey is looking for your profile. Note down this location. Next, close out of SeaMonkey, including the Quick Launch feature if you use it. Wait a minute or so, (just to make sure SM has closed) then give the three finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and ensure SeaMonkey is not still listed in the running processes. Now, ensure Windows is set to display all sub-folders and then go to the location you noted in the first step. your address book, abook.mab, should be in a sub-folder. Locate it, right click on it and check out the properties to ensure it is not marked as Read Only. Report back. -- Daniel To get return e-mail address remove nospam. from address line From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, 16th Edition Amazing Anagrams Public Relations == Crap, built on lies Marriage == a grim era ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab
Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Hi, I suddenly have the above problem,, and cannot solve it. I'm running Windows XP, SP 3, and the latest SeaMonkey. A Google search revealed that many people have this problem, and there is no solution out there. I can pick up some of the e-mail addresses from previous e-mails, but probably not all. The addresses are important to me. I do a full monthly backup, but in the past with a similar problem, a download to my hard drive from the external backup dd not help, as it gave a long text listing of the names and URLs, not the hierarchal lists in the address book. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Mort Linder Mort, what's the problem?? Are you saying that when you are composing an email, you are unable to open your email address book?? What do you see?? If this is not your problem, can you have another go at explaining it?? Hi Daniel, I'm running the latest SeaMonkey and Windows XP Pro. My e-mail section has a personal address book and a collected address book. Suddenly, without warning, when I turn on SeaMonkey and then click on the e-mail icon, I get an on-screen announcement Cannot download personal address book abook.mab. It is either write only, or is tied up by another program. The personal address book bar is absent. Searching for the abook.mab gives no answers. Now, many of my e-mail addresses are in the collected list, but not all. Some cannot be retrieved from old e-mails because many of those were deleted. I searched on line for this malady, and found many posts from people who have the problem. However, every suggestion of how to fix it was followed by posts that the fix did not work. I have antivirus, antispyware, and a firewall. Where did the missing file go? Why? Mostly, how can I get it back? Thanks a lot. Mort O.K., Mort, lets try a few things! First have a look at Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, select Server Settings on your email account. At the bottom of this screen is the Local Directory location, where SeaMonkey is looking for your profile. Note down this location. Next, close out of SeaMonkey, including the Quick Launch feature if you use it. Wait a minute or so, (just to make sure SM has closed) then give the three finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and ensure SeaMonkey is not still listed in the running processes. Now, ensure Windows is set to display all sub-folders and then go to the location you noted in the first step. your address book, abook.mab, should be in a sub-folder. Locate it, right click on it and check out the properties to ensure it is not marked as Read Only. Report back. Hi Daniel, SUCCESS, THANKS. Thanks for the wonderful help. I did find the Local Directory location, but the right ending was off the screen, so I had to hunt for it. I did find the abook.ABM file, and it was not marked read only. It has 500 KB, so it could have all my e-mail addresses in it. I then shut down SeaMonkey, waited a few minutes, and the 3-finger salute gave a blank, so SM was not running. When I clicked on open, the address book opened on-screen as a text message, not as an hierarchical list. However, when I returned to e-mail and clicked on address book, there it was in all its glory, just where it is supposed to be. I am so happy that I did not lose all my addresses., and I'm most grateful to you. It's a particularly trying time for me, as my dear wife just passed away 3 days ago, and I'm still trying to e-mail friends and family. Now I can do so. Thanks again, and please excuse the lengthy post. Regards, Mort P.S. Now my collected addresses have all disappeared. I'd rather have the Personal addresses, which I do. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab
Daniel wrote: Mort wrote: Hi, I suddenly have the above problem,, and cannot solve it. I'm running Windows XP, SP 3, and the latest SeaMonkey. A Google search revealed that many people have this problem, and there is no solution out there. I can pick up some of the e-mail addresses from previous e-mails, but probably not all. The addresses are important to me. I do a full monthly backup, but in the past with a similar problem, a download to my hard drive from the external backup dd not help, as it gave a long text listing of the names and URLs, not the hierarchal lists in the address book. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Mort Linder Mort, what's the problem?? Are you saying that when you are composing an email, you are unable to open your email address book?? What do you see?? If this is not your problem, can you have another go at explaining it?? Hi Daniel, I'm running the latest SeaMonkey and Windows XP Pro. My e-mail section has a personal address book and a collected address book. Suddenly, without warning, when I turn on SeaMonkey and then click on the e-mail icon, I get an on-screen announcement Cannot download personal address book abook.mab. It is either write only, or is tied up by another program. The personal address book bar is absent. Searching for the abook.mab gives no answers. Now, many of my e-mail addresses are in the collected list, but not all. Some cannot be retrieved from old e-mails because many of those were deleted. I searched on line for this malady, and found many posts from people who have the problem. However, every suggestion of how to fix it was followed by posts that the fix did not work. I have antivirus, antispyware, and a firewall. Where did the missing file go? Why? Mostly, how can I get it back? Thanks a lot. Mort ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Unable To Load Address Book File abook.mab
Mort wrote: Hi, I suddenly have the above problem,, and cannot solve it. I'm running Windows XP, SP 3, and the latest SeaMonkey. A Google search revealed that many people have this problem, and there is no solution out there. I can pick up some of the e-mail addresses from previous e-mails, but probably not all. The addresses are important to me. I do a full monthly backup, but in the past with a similar problem, a download to my hard drive from the external backup dd not help, as it gave a long text listing of the names and URLs, not the hierarchal lists in the address book. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Mort Linder Mort, what's the problem?? Are you saying that when you are composing an email, you are unable to open your email address book?? What do you see?? If this is not your problem, can you have another go at explaining it?? -- Daniel To get return e-mail address remove nospam. from address line From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, 16th Edition Amazing Anagrams Public Relations == Crap, built on lies Marriage == a grim era ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
