sync address book with mac os x
I just installed Thunderbird 78.6.0 on may macbookpro and my macmini both on High Sierra. On first opening the app one is asked whether to give access to Contacts. On the macmini I did not grant access -- I figure I could do that later. On the macbookpro I did grant access and it worked fine, populating the "Mac OS X Address book" with the cards form Contacts.
Now I would like that on the macmini too, but there does not seem to be a way to select the use/import/synchronize-with Contacts, and the "Mac OS X Address book" is empty.
The only thing I tried is to reinstall Thunderbird, but it was smart enough to recall my previous settings. I am willing to remove initialization files if necessary to get this to work, I just don;t know where/which.
Help!? --Thx
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Thanks. Yes this worked!
Two words of advice. 1. At least on High Sierra you do not have to do this from a terminal window using a command line. You can do this from System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy then select "Contacts" on left panel and put a check-mark on "Thunderbird" on right panel -- to grant it access. This has the added advantage over $ tccutil reset AddressBook that it does not reset acces of *every* App, it does it selectively for each one. 2. I had deleted the "Mac OS X Address book" on my profile in Thunderbird (not out of frustration, but trying alternative solutions). After restoring Thunderbird access to Contacts I found Thunderbird could not start that profile: it gave me a spinning wheel and a "not responding" (using 100% CPU in Activity Monitor). But starting a new fresh Profile worked fine, and saw all entries in Contacts. Moral: do not erase "Mac OS X Address book"
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See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1269923
It explains how to import contacts directly, and also a possible way to reset permissions to access the OS X address book. If that doesn't work and the permission is stored in the TB preferences (Config. editor), you can always create a new profile from Help/Troubleshooting, about:profiles, where you should be asked again for access.
Sorry, but not useful The previous posting refers to `“Use Mac OS X Address Book” is enabled' but I do not have the option to enable that. And your suggestion does not work: upon creating a new profile one is not prompted to grant access to Contacts. I even tried removing the whole Thunderbird directory from ~/Library as well as any "Thunderbird" subdirectory in ~/Library/Caches and it still did not work. Something else is saving this information.
I found a way to accomplish this. I used the info in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-multiple-profiles to start the Profile Manager, used it to erase all but the one I want to use, and when selected first thing it did is to present me with the option to grant access to Contacts.
I spoke too soon. The next time I restarted Thunderbird (using the Profile manager) the connection to Contacts was gone.
Help, someone?
Did you try the method mentioned in the link to reset OS X permissions?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1269923#answer-1258132
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Thanks. Yes this worked!
Two words of advice. 1. At least on High Sierra you do not have to do this from a terminal window using a command line. You can do this from System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy then select "Contacts" on left panel and put a check-mark on "Thunderbird" on right panel -- to grant it access. This has the added advantage over $ tccutil reset AddressBook that it does not reset acces of *every* App, it does it selectively for each one. 2. I had deleted the "Mac OS X Address book" on my profile in Thunderbird (not out of frustration, but trying alternative solutions). After restoring Thunderbird access to Contacts I found Thunderbird could not start that profile: it gave me a spinning wheel and a "not responding" (using 100% CPU in Activity Monitor). But starting a new fresh Profile worked fine, and saw all entries in Contacts. Moral: do not erase "Mac OS X Address book"