Auto-completion of email addresses stopped working

[Manuel Casal Lodeiro]

Suddenly many of the frequent email addresses (even my own email!) at my
address book are not recognized and self-completed in the To or CC
fields of the New Message window.

What could have caused this?

Has anybody here suffered this odd behaviour before?

Thanks for any help.
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< Manuel Casal Lodeiro, (a) «Casdeiro» >

No es la tormenta lo que nos arrastra,
es la arquitectura del fingimiento.
Los refuerzos inútiles.
Las reparaciones que agravan las fisuras.
La manía de maquillar el abismo
con colores de oficina.

— Jesús Olmo, "Colapso"

[Manuel Casal Lodeiro]

In 06/11/25 21:34, Manuel Casal Lodeiro dixit:

> Suddenly many of the frequent email addresses (even my own email!) at my
> address book are not recognized and self-completed in the To or CC
> fields of the New Message window.

More symptoms that something is broken in the Address Book: when trying
to save a new contact, OK button doesn't do anything. I can click on it
but the window just don't close as usual. Only the "Cancel" button works
and closes the window.

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< Manuel Casal Lodeiro, (a) «Casdeiro» >

Creo profundamente que el verdadero fascismo es aquel
que los sociólogos han llamado con demasiada buena
voluntad la 'sociedad de consumo'.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini, "Escritos corsarios"

[Nacho]

To me it sounds like a hardware problem, not being able to read or write from/to the disk.

[Nuno Silva]

Are there any errors in the browser console?

(In the Address Book window, Tools->Web Development->Error Console.)

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Nuno Silva
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[Manuel Casal Lodeiro]

In 07/11/25 22:54, 'Nacho' via support-...@lists.mozilla.org dixit:

> To me it sounds like a hardware problem, not being able to read or write from/to the disk.

No, the disk seems to be working normally. Maybe a registry broken in
the file system tables?

Now I found another problem: many addresses have disappeared from the
Address Book? May it be corrupt?

How can I tell?

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< Manuel Casal Lodeiro, (a) «Casdeiro» >

Si la felicidad se escapa
Bailaré con el dolor

— Arde Bogotá, "La Torre Picasso"

[Manuel Casal Lodeiro]

In 09/11/25 12:57, Nuno Silva dixit:

> Are there any errors in the browser console?
>
> (In the Address Book window, Tools->Web Development->Error Console.)

I can see 4 of them:

Timestamp: 19:25:14 CET, 10/11/25
Error: uncaught exception: 2147942487
Source File:
jar:file:///opt/seamonkey/omni.ja!/components/nsMailNewsCommandLineHandler.js
Line: 37

Timestamp: 19:25:14 CET, 10/11/25
Error: tabTracker is undefined
Source File: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm
Line: 358

Timestamp: 19:25:14 CET, 10/11/25
Error: TypeError: this.global.tabTracker is undefined
Source File: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm
Line: 150

Timestamp: 19:25:14 CET, 10/11/25
Error: TypeError: chrome.browserAction is undefined
Source File:
moz-extension://86223456-c5c0-4991-9d0c-cbe255962fa5/extension.js
Line: 75

And a RSS parsing error for one of my feeds after all those.

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< Manuel Casal Lodeiro, (a) «Casdeiro» >

[Manuel Casal Lodeiro]

After restoring a backup copy of abook.mab the address book went back to
normal. Old addresses are auto-completed as before, and I can edit and
update people at the address book.

So I have to conclude that the .MAB file got damaged somehow.

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< Manuel Casal Lodeiro, (a) «Casdeiro» >

Life, whether for a mosquito, a person, or a civilization, is a
constant process of becoming, a continual emergence into patterns of
attraction and aversion, desire and suffering, pleasure and pain. Life
is a flow. The forms it takes are transient. Death is nothing more
than the act of passing from one pattern into another.

— Roy Scranton, "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene"