netscape_corrupt_addressbook

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Subject: Re: [OT] Netscape address book crashes the whole app
From: "Spunk S. Spunk III" <spunk@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:29:55 -0700

Steve Borho wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:56:05AM -0400, Anthony E . Greene wrote:
>>> When I attempt to use the Personal Address book in 4.7x to select addresses
>>> for a message, as soon as I double-click on the address or click the "To"
>>> button in the address selection dialog, the entire application quits.
>>> 
>>> If I select an address from an LDAP server, everything works as intended.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone konw of a solution, or at least a workaround for this (other
>>> than using a local LDAP server)?

I have the same problem. Thus far, I've worked around it by not caring and
hating Netscape more. I would guess it could be a corupt pref problem but I
don't even know where they are. Anyone?

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Subject: Re: [OT] Netscape address book crashes the whole app!
From: Bob Glover <rglover@npc.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:38:39 -0400

I was having a problem where Netscape crashed when I pressed the "To"
button in the address book.  And the following fixed it for me.  I came
across this a few days ago.  Sorry, but I can't remember who or where. 
It might help.

> THE SOLUTION to the problem "Netscape crashes in Linux when I use the
> Address Book" is posted at:
>  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10433
>
>  The SOLUTION offered by notting.AT.redhat.com is simple:
>  1.- exit Netscape and make sure that no Netscape process is running.
> 2.- remove the lines containing the word "locale" from your
> .netscape/liprefs.js and
>  .netscape/preferences.js files!
>  These lines should look almost like this:
>  user_pref("ldap_2.servers.pab.locale","en_US") 3.- restart Netscape.
>
>  Many thanks to notting.AT.redhat.com!!!
>  Nick
>

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Subject: Re: [OT] Netscape address book crashes the whole app
From: Statux <statux@bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:39:55 -0400 (EDT)

My gripes with Nutscrape (Netscape):

1) Very often when reading mail and news (and it sucks with the news
articles if they're large), Netscape will get the entire thing.. then
reget it from the source for some reason. It takes a while to recontact
the news server and I can't see the point on having to do this over. Then
if you want to save anything.. it ends up having to (quite often) download
it right from the original source again. So what was a 500KB download from
a news server to begin with has turned into a 1.5MB ordeal. This bug has
been with Netscape for as long as I can remember (at least in the X Window
versions).

2) Due to more cruddy design issues, Netscape has this thing about having
everything (the navigator, mail and news, the composer (which is still the
worst rated WYSIWYG html editor around), and the address book) in one
binary. [Checks the exact size of his netscape binary] 13741448 bytes. Now
why on earth did they go and do this? It's hell on slower machines. If one
part freezes or crashes.. the whole thing does. Not very productive. I
admire MS for keeping IE, Outlook Express, Windows Adress Book, and
FrontPage  seperate like all similiar clients should be. I think MS
Windows itself was poorly designed (that's what happens when you have a
system with no native support for anything, etc etc etc.. DOS is
old).. but they do have pretty good apps. Can't blame the apps for not
running.. it's the platform itself which sucks. Oh yeah.. I'm talking
about Netscape. They're software sucks.

That's my 2 cents :)

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Subject: Re: [OT] Netscape address book crashes the whole app
From: "Spunk S. Spunk III" <spunk@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:43:22 -0700

So,
peicing together some of the tips (none of which totally worked but they got me
going n the right direction) I found this solution: Delete the damn thing.
Now if I had it to do over again, I'd have saved my bookmarks... oh well. Here's
what to do.

1) cd ~/.netscape
2) cp bookmarks.html /../bookmarks.html
3) rm -R /.netscape
4) launch netscape from say X (this reinstalls)
5) launch address book but don't add anything! just close it. (I'm not sure if
this is necesary but what the hell.
6) Quit netscape and mail
7) copy your bookmarks.html file back to the .netscape directory

Continue your life as you see fit.

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Subject: Re: [OT] Netscape address book crashes the whole app
From: Nitebirdz <nitebirdz@uswest.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 07:03:42 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Spunk S. Spunk III wrote:

> So,
> peicing together some of the tips (none of which totally worked but they got me
> going n the right direction) I found this solution: Delete the damn thing.
> Now if I had it to do over again, I'd have saved my bookmarks... oh well. Here's
> what to do.
> 
> 1) cd ~/.netscape
> 2) cp bookmarks.html /../bookmarks.html
> 3) rm -R /.netscape
> 4) launch netscape from say X (this reinstalls)
> 5) launch address book but don't add anything! just close it. (I'm not sure if
> this is necesary but what the hell.
> 6) Quit netscape and mail
> 7) copy your bookmarks.html file back to the .netscape directory
> 
> Continue your life as you see fit.
> 
> Spunk
> 

I missed most of the thread, but quite often simply renaming the
preferences.js file within the .netscape directory does the trick and you
still get to keep the bookmarks, address book, etc.  Sorry if you tried
this already and it didn't work.  As I said, I missed most of the
thread.  

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