Visit to TB addons deleted my new address books

[George Newton]

I've been spending a great bit of time today adding special address books.

I decided to visit the TBird addons page to see if there were any addons
to help with address/mail lists.

When I didn't find any, I click on the close window button, thinking
that was only for the addons page, but it was TBird itself.

When I restarte TBird, all five of the new address books were gone, and
there are no *.mad.bak files in the profile folder.

I'd say this is almost a showstopper bug. Email lists take a lot of work
to maintain and they should be given more security than this.

Now, I have at least added the *.mab file type to an archive program
that makes backups for every change.

To bad I didn't have the foresight/distrust to think of that earlier.

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George Newton

[George Newton]

What I've discovered is that the problem occurs with TB shutdown:

any new addresses or address books are not saved when TB shutsdown on my
Win7 x64/sp1 system.

I first noticed this with TB11.0.1 and also now with the latest TB12.0.