[turba] Corrupt Address Book

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Dec 8 22:17:40 PST 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:25 -0800, vdr at lighting-research.com wrote:
> My ISP, omnis.com, uses Horde for their Web-based e-mail. I'm sorry, but I do
> not known which version of Horde. I have corrupted the address book, probably
> by uploading an address book from Outlook in native Outlook format. Te result
> is that the address book will open - after some delay - but does not show any
> entries and will not accept new entries. I have two other e-mail accounts with
> this same ISP, and the address book works properly with those accounts, so I do
> see what is not happening with the corrupt account.
> 
> I need to clear the corrupt address book, but the ISP is clueless. I have even
> deleted one of my e-mail accounts (with a working address book) for time
> periods of up to 18 hours, in the hope that would erase the address book
> associated with the account. However, when I reestablish the account, the
> address book is still there. (I have not deleted the account with the corrupt
> address book, since that is my main e-mail account and I cannot afford to miss
> messages.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way to clear the address book?
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somebody set it up - they should be able to do it.

One can only guess that your addressbook is stored in some SQL db and if
it's deleted, it can be recreated. Back to your ISP.

Craig



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