Thunderbird address book recovery(Solved)

Mark LaPierre marklapier at aol.com
Sun May 15 12:52:31 UTC 2011


On 05/14/2011 11:15 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 05/14/2011 10:50 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>>>
>>> No, how do I recover my address information from the backup file?
>> I recovered my abook.mab file from last nights backup.  All is
>> apparently will now.  I wonder what happened to cause the file to be
>> corrupted.  I didn't add/delete anything to/from the file as far as I know.
>>
>
>    On a related note - you can use gcontactsync to share with google
> contacts - works well ... and adds another backup ...
>
>     You can also export your address book to LDIF format for safekeeping.

After a careful analysis of the items on the Thunderbird menus I see no 
export option for the address book.  What method do you propose for 
exporting the address book in LDIF format?

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