Re: abook location

Janwillem van Dijk <[email protected]> Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:11:43 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.prefs
Organization Hobby Computer Club News Network
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> My approach:
> 
> -1- delete abook.mab (or save it under a new name if it has valuable 
> information) in your local mozilla directory
> 
> -2- install a "link" in the local mozilla directory that is named 
> "abook.mab" and points to the new location
> 
> Gray
> 
> 
> 
> Janwillem van Dijk wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to have Thunderbird Addressbook to look for aboob.mab in a 
>> specified directory, say D:/DataFiles/AddressBook/
>> I had that working properly but had to reinstall my system and lost 
>> the prefs.js file and now I cannot find out how I did change that file.
>>
>> Many thanks for tips,
>> Janwillem
> 
> 
Thanks, this works for my Linux intallation but for Windows 2000 on 
FAT32 making a link does not seem to be that simple. I seem to remember 
that I modified prefs.jr to solv the problem under Windows.

Other suggestions?
Thanks Janwillem