SillyDog701

[ozwankenobi]

A friend asked me to help her upgrade from NS4.08 to Tbird..
The email files are fine, but the abook.nab file is corrupt. When I
try to export it to a .ldif file, the program hangs and exits. Sweet!
I would say "tough, type them all back in", but there are HUNDREDS
of addresses in this file.. All of the addresses are visable in
the mailer, except the few corrupted entries.

I have tried a couple of conversion programs from a Google search,
and they error out with no result. How excellent!

Does anyone know anything about the internal structure of the
.nab file so I can try to cut out the corrupt bit?? The file is
90% binary and hard to follow.

Is there source code for the export routine in 4.08 so I can
see if there is a work around??

I am at your mercy!

Oz.

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[ozwankenobi]

I will update my post for others.
On the old machine with Netscape 4.08, I created an email TO:
all the people in the address book that was not corrupted.
Instead of sending this out, I saved it as a DRAFT.
I then emailed the DRAFT folder (just one file) to a different
computer as an attachment.

There, I wrote a small perl script to hack the TO: list into
the .ldif format. It took a long time, but it imported
correctly. Notes and addresses are gone, but the names and
addresses are there.

I think this closes this one..

oz.

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