NABR 0.1.0

What is this?
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1. What is this?

Netscape Address Book Recovery. This is a tool to take that corrupted Netscape Address Book and get your information out of it. After the third time my book got corrupted, I gave up trying to fix it by hand and wrote this program. This program attempts to get as much information out of the address book as is possible. But as with all programs of this type, it will always need to change to keep track of the different ways in which the address book can be corrupted. It can output .csv (Comma Seperated Values) or .ldi (LDAP Date Interchange Format) files. If you output to .csv files you will lose all mailling list information.

2. License

GPL license as found in the file LICENSE

3. Copyright

This program is copyright Robert Sandilands @2002.

Netscape and everything associated with them is their copyright.

4. Guarantees

None. This program may not work at all. I do not guarantee that it will recover or do anything. If it breaks, you have the source code.

Please read http://rsandila.webhop.org/disclaimer.html

5. Usage

The netscape address books are abook.mab and history.mab. The first one is your personal address book and seems to be the one that gets corrupted the most. Depending on your OS it can be in different places on your file system. Nothing that a file search won't resolve. Take the newest one.

The program is used as follows: nabr [input] [output] [--ldif]

The first parameter is the input file, the second is the output file and the third specified whether you want LDAP Data Interchange Format files. If you run the program with no parameters it will default to .csv output with abook.mab as input and abook.csv as ouput.

The LDIF format data is formatted the same way as the Netscape LDIF exported file to make it easier to re-import into Netscape. There may be some fields missing and any comments on this would be appreciated.