On Tb startup she got the same error messages which are reported in "Summary File for Inbox" and "Unable to load address book file" problems PLUS Add-On Questions In the French Mozilla forum I'm trying to help a Mac user who "lost" her address books after changing the hard drive of her MacBook Pro and upgrading from OS X 10.5 to 10.6 and from TB 16.x to TB 24.1.1. I went back to experiment some more and, hmph!, the > Arrgh! I would swear that even starting in Safe Mode the Address Books ![]() That said, perhaps the error message could be improved, or made more specific if it is possible ![]() Thus I think we should close this bug, and anyone who still gets the error should file a new bug or support topic at /mozilla_messaging/ and post a link to it here in this bug report.įurther food for thought, address book here is typically (if not always) the VICTIM, not the cause of users seeing this error message. But I think the odds are exceedingly low. muntada is gone and thus we have no way of knowing what his issue was or whether it could happen in a current version. Note, for reasons I don't understand other users have reported cases odd issues related to safe mode, such one run of safe mode permanently solving a problem without removing or disabling any addons, or safe mode not solving a problem but *removing* an addon did. Note to Frédéric - there is no folder limit.īut bug 767210 is an example where a similar but different message is seen for a user with many folders on Mac. I think Frédéric's issue was fixed by bug bug 723248 or caused by an addon. Indeed cached connections cannot have anything to do with this issue. if possible, issuing a more specific error message when such failures happen. warning the user when his count of subfolders comes close to the limit All solved the moment I reduced my total number of folders.)Īs for a fix, I can live with a limit of 500 subfolders, if that's indeed the cause, but then I'd like to suggest at least: I had the same problem with 2 different folders. Manually asking Th to rebuild the folder got no better results. msf file indeed has disappeared and no new one appeared. (The other problems: unexplained crashes also on opening specific folders, the list of messages appeared blank, Thunderbird appeared to rebuild the corresponding. So far so good for the previous few days. Reducing the number of folders drastically (to about 300) appeared to solve the problem (as well as other problems I began encountering with folders after the initial abook.mab trouble). Maybe this way it reaches some process-wide or session-wide limit, which may well cause an obscure failure at opening yet another file, say abook.mab. As witnessed with Process Explorer, Thunderbird keeps a Windows handle on each of these files (even those hidden in collapsed parts of the tree view). msf files in my profile (518 at the highest). The problem appears to be solved now, for me.Ī possible (IMO rather likely) cause is that I had too many folders, more specifically too many. So perhaps is something *else* missing/corrupted ? Lacking room on my system disk C:, I had done some cleanup, including (as far as I remember) in the *Firefox* profile folder, but not in the Thunderbird profile folder. ![]() So I guess the problem is *not* that Thunderbird can't access the file. Two of them get an 'FAST IO DISALLOWED' status, but all others get SUCCESS (including a call to CreateFile - but maybe only readonly, will have to check again, more details later). Using SysInternal's Process Monitor, I see attempts to open abook.mab that appear to succeed (the file was present). In the process of these tests, a few empty (0-byte) backups were created:, ,, etc. I tried to replace abook.mab with an older (2008) backup, and with an empty file, and got the same error message in both cases (on abook.mab). I tried to delete/rename it out the way, but no new abook.mab appeared, and Thunderbird then barked on history.mab (same error message). Its contents look normal (as far as I can tell, knowing about nothing about its format). I checked that my abook.mab is not read-only and not locked by another program (I also restarted Windows, to no avail temporarily deactivated my avast! antivirus, no avail either). At any rate my address book appears empty and no new contact can be added. then any e-mail I type appears in red=unrecognized Ģbis. Enter an e-mail address - typing one letter suffices to get the message.Ĥ.
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