Address book has disappeared... twice!

Hi there,
This has happened to me twice, both times after Thunderbird updated itself. My Address book has been stripped of any contacts that Thunderbird automatically collected since i started using it way back.
The first time it happened i had limited success with the "MoreFunctionsForAddressBook" add on but that hasn't worked this time either...
Any thoughts?

No. This one is reported occasionally, often when users are advised to copy or move a profile and then they report the address books have gone missing. In principle, an updated Thunderbird should simply refer to any existing profile and continue using it. The whole idea of the profile is to decouple the program itself from user data, so changing the program should have no impact on your stored data. That's the theory, anyway.
I've never had it happen to me and so I don't know what to do to reproduce your experience.
In your position, I'd do a search for files with a *.mab filename and see where they are. If they are present and correct in the profile, I'd look at their contents to see if they have been wiped or trashed internally.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

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