Fortunately, the good people at Mozilla didn't delete the corrupt address book. I was able to find and open in Notepad the file abook.mab.bak
Most of the file looks to be in a format similar to this:
@$${D7{@
<(310=c7)(311=4995d940)>[-C:^80(^83^B5)(^84^B6)(^85=)(^86=)(^87^B7)
(^88=)(^89^B8)(^8A^B8)(^8B=)(^8C=)(^8D=)(^8E=0)(^8F=c7)(^90=0)(^91=)
(^92=)(^93=)(^94=)(^95=)(^96=)(^97=)(^98=)(^99=)(^9A=)(^9B=)(^9C=)
(^9D=)(^9E=)(^9F=)(^A0=)(^A1=)(^A2=)(^A3=)(^A4=)(^A5=)(^A6=)(^A7=)
(^A8=)(^A9=)(^AA=)(^AB=)(^AC=)(^AD=)(^AE=)(^AF=)(^B0=)(^B1=)(^B2=)
(^B3=)(^B4=)(^B5=)(^B6=)(^B7=)(^B8=)(^B9=)(^BA=)(^BB=)(^BC^311)
(^BD=d)]
@$$}D7}@
@$${D8{@
@$$}D8}@
@$${DA{@
At the end of my file, though there was a bunch of gibberish, like the following
c-a066-debd8d26faf6},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsMailModule
{a1b72850-a999-11d2-9119-006008a6edf6},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsI18nModule
{a33982d3-1adf-4162-9941-f734bc45e4ed},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsComposerModule
{214c48a0-b57f-11d4-959c-0020183bf181},,application/x-mozilla-static,,docshell_provider
{ba6151a2-1dfa-11d3-b3bf-00805f8a6670},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsUConvModule
{e350e6d0-9dd0-11db-b606-0800200c9a66},,text/javascript,,abs:U:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\extensions\{3c8e8390-2cf6-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66}\components\nsDomainData.js
{c5339442-303f-11d3-9e13-00a0c92b5f0d},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsMailModule
{5cbb0700-04bc-11d3-a50a-0060b0fc04b7},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsMailModule
{3a9cd622-264d-11d4-ba06-0060b0fc76dd},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsLayoutModule
{dccbe7e4-7750-466b-a557-5ea36c8ff24e},,application/x-mozilla-static,,necko_core_and_primary_protocols
{1f59b001-02c9-11d5-ae76-cc92f7db9e03},,application/x-mozilla-static,,embedcomponents
{5eb7c3c1-ec1f-4007-87cc-eefb37d68ce6},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsToolkitCompsModule
{ba6151b1-1dfa-11d3-b3bf-00805f8a6670},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsUConvModule
{a4bd2161-7892-4389-8d5a-3111a6d17ec7},,application/x-mozilla-static,,PKI
{e197cc01-cfe1-11d4-8eb0-87ae406dfd3f},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsEditorModule
{6b8bdffc-3394-417d-be83-a81b7c0f63bf},,application/x-mozilla-static,,docshell_provider
{495eca46-0a5c-11d4-a135-005004832142},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsUConvModule
{8852ab1f-0aa2-46ef-a147-a908896e0d0b},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsLayoutModule
{0e6892c1-a9ad-11d2-b3ae-00805f8a6670},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsUConvModule
{0c4f1ddc-1dd2-11b2-9d95-f2fdf113044b},,application/x-mozilla-static,,NSS
{8510876a-1dd2-11b2-8253-91f71b348a25},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsMailModule
{63e11d52-3c9b-11d6-b7b9-00b0d06e5f27},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsMailModule
{c6584cee-8ee8-4b2c-8dbe-7dfcb55c9c61},,application/x-mozilla-static,,nsMailModule
{ac6c518a-09b2-1
On a whim, I deleted all of the superfluous lines at the end of my file, and saved the edited file as abook.mab. I was able to open up my address book and get all of my old contacts back.
UPDATE
This is one of the most popular posts on my site, but I never get any feedback from it. I'd love to hear in the comments section if this works for anyone else or not. I'd hate to leave bad information out there.
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Due to a lightning storm, one of my address books was corrupted. I edited the backup that T-bird had made using Notepad and removed all the gobbledy-gook at the end, including the last empty entry.......while T-bird was NOT running. I moved the edited file to another folder while editing and then changed the name back to the original abook.mab, copied it into the correct profile and it worked like a champ. Thanks!
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