Adress book is corrupted

I use Thunderbird Portable.
My address book only shows 12 addresses, and the 'list' is called "Collected Addresses." I used to have scores, if not hundreds.
I suffered a recent corruption of my flash drive, so when I noticed the problem with the address book, I looked for a salvaged address book. I found a file in the top level folder called 'contacts.txt' and it appears to have my complete stockpile of contact information in it, certainly considerably more than in the "Collected Addresses" list.
How can I get that more complete list back into my Thunderbird Portable application?

Yep, I imported from that. It was close, and a big improvement over what was there, but it wasn't complete. Don't know exactly how much was lost. But it's the best I have, and it's not terrible.
I definitely need to start doing incremental backups instead of weekly image backups. It appears that by the time I detected the problem, I had already backed up my corrupted abook.mab on top of my last good abook.mab. I don't even remember the circumstances that resulted in my creating the .txt file, but I'm sure thankful that I had. Without that, I'd have been in bad shape.
I appreciate your help. Thanks!

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hello guys,
i think the adress book on my MBP is corrupted.
im unable to view account information for my local adress book (in preferences -> accounts). there is just nothing on the right side. no buttons to sync with google or yahoo, nothing. just grey.
on my imac ists just working fine.
please, can you help?
how shall i repair the adress book??
additional info:
on the second user profile on the MBP, the one of my friend, it is working correctly. account information is normally shown and also the buttons to sync with google and yahoo.
greetings from bavaria

If your only issue is with duplicates I would go to your address book and click on the "red marker" up on the window. That should get you into main directory. There you should see at least two main lists:
On My Mac
iCloud
If you click on iCloud, there should be all entries with no duplicates - check if all your contacts are there. Then go to On My Mac and delete all contacts there. Problem solved (and if you have iPhone don't sync contacts over cable if you have iCloud sync active, that's where my duplicates came from).
My issue was more complicated. It started with duplicates which I have deleted as described above. Then I noticed I have all contacts on my iPhone and I can see all contacts on iCloud web page but in Mac there was only about half of them.
So after trying stuff for some time I have solved it by
1) deleting all contacts from Mac and turning iCloud off on Mac
2) copying all contacts from iPhone to Mac over cable to On My Mac directory
3) deleting all contacts from iPhone and iCloud manually, turning iCloud on iPhone off
4) copying all contacts from Mac back to iPhone
5) deleting all contacts from Mac (On My Mac)
6) turning iCloud on again and uploading contacts from iPhone to iCloud
7) turning iCloud on again on Mac and leting Mac sync
Complicated stuff, it's few days so I hope I have not forgotten something.

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I recently upgraded to Tiger and wanted to upload my address book. But the Mac adress book won't start. I threw out all the address book folders (including pref.s and plist etc.) and selectively re-installed Adress Book. Same story, it won't open. I noticed that "Wallet" - which ahs several features in common with Address Book - won't load either. I fear that some script is missing somewhere.
Has anybody any ideas?
Thanks
willig0_6
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That's good news, it means that it's limited to your Home folder. A bit of corruption somewhere. What is "Wallet" the Yahoo add on? That may be getting in the way. Log back into your normal user account and disable it and test AB.
Here's the whole litany for thoroughly checking your home folder. It's not as daunting as it looks.
1. Navigate to ~(YourHome/Library/Fonts - drag this folder to the desktop.
• Restart and test your applications.
• If they work start adding the fonts back few at a time.
( Likely suspects are Times RO & Helvetica Fractions, also if you do not use Classic you can trash the classic fonts.)
2. Check Preferences Thoroughly;
• Navigate to ~(YourHome/Library/Preferences drag this folder to the desktop.
• Restart and test your applications.
• If this works, save the old preferences folder somewhere else or on disk, name it "old prefs" .
** Note: A very important file is the "com.apple.Mail.plist" preference file located in the Preferences folder which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences (hold this one and replace if your problem is not with Mail).
You'll have to go through some of your System Preferences and apps to set the preferences back to how you like them. (Or if you have the time and inclination, "cherry pick" through until you find the problem one or two.)
3. Check Permissions Inside Home Folder
• Navigate to YourHome/Library.
• Get Info (Command - i) on folders for apps you are having problems with.
• Open the "Ownership & permissions" disclosure triangle.
• Make sure you are the owner, with "read and write" access.
• Click on "apply to all"
• If this is correct, open the "Applications Support" folder and do the same procedure (Command+I) for the folders with the names of the applications you are having trouble with.
Note:
The reason to check this is because repairing permissions with Disk Utility doesn't touch permissions inside your home folder.
4. Navigate to YourHome/Library/Caches and drag this folder to the trash, then log out and back or restart. There is no need to replace this folder.
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Hi folks!
I recently updated to Lion, also switched my .me to iCloud. At first everything was perfect, now I am experiencing strange behaviours:
I am starting to add fotos to my contacts because I like the view in Mail.app where the contact fotos are shown in the list of emails. After I added some more photos I cannot search in the address book anymore. Typing a name into the search field and nothing happens. Also clicking on a name an nothing happens on the right side. Absolutely nothing. There's only one entry that does not change and when hitting the "edit" Button, only this one contact is changed. Also this one contact changes when doing a right click on a contact name on the left side.
I did some searches here but did not find anything. What I did was deleting the "AddressBook-v22.abcddb" in the ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ Folder as suggested in some other threads but this does not change anything.
This is really annoying and I cannot use my Address Book which I really need. I have more than 2000 contacts inside and it's essential for my business!
Please help!
Thanks and best, Jochen
Message was edited by: Joo-Chen, typo

OK, seems like I can replicate the behaviour:
- repair Disk Permissions
- restart MBP (do not open all apps again)
- after reboot, only the Finder is open
- open Address Book
- click on contact name on the left side, brings details on the right, editing works also -> great!
- click in the search field and type a name
-> no filter of the list or search result appears
- click on any contact left hand side, nothing happens on the right, the last clicked contact before the search remains open
- double click on contact name opens separate window as expected
- no search possible anymore
- no editing possible anymore
-> again repair permissions, and restart and same procedure ...
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Lost all my concats in my adresse book

I was putting new adresses in my adresse book and there in 2 sec, the were all gone.... is there a way I can get them back???????
Thank you

I am sure your English is much better than my German, Italian, French, or any other language would be. I have once been to the beautiful city of Geneva, Switzerland and am amazed at the ability of its residents to master several different languages, and their kindness when dealing with Americans like myself who can barely master just one. But I am still not clear about some of the things you say. I will do my best to make myself clear to you by numbering the important questions I must ask about this, and then discussing what I mean about each one:
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Did these 20 new things show up in this window? If they did, which column did the show up in?
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2. What did you highlight when you "try to delete only this one"?
Was it in the group or name column, or something in the contact information? Is is possible you highlighted more than one thing?
3. How did you try to delete this one?
If not with the "-" button or keyboard, did you drag something to the trash, or use the menu?
I am not sure any of this is important because it does sound like you somehow have lost all your contacts. I ask these things only in the hope that I do not understand what happened.
If your Mac is new or you are still covered by Applecare, it might be best for you to contact Applecare in your country for better help than I can offer you. You may also want to try posting here in your own language. I won't understand you but someone else who does may be able to help you more.

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No method I am aware of.
This add-on adds many features, but I don't know if what you seek is included.
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http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html

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Hi all,
I have a new Kotorola MOTOKRZR K1 here.
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AK
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