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Import files with the contact extension?

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I have a folder with files with the ".contact" extension that Windows recognizes because it opens them up and displays the contact information when I double click. I'll be damned if I can figure out how to import them into Thunderbird though. The import address book option does not seem to recognize them at all when using the following options: Outlook Express, Text file and Vcard file. The other two options "Eudora" and "Outlook" are greyed out. I can't drag the contact files into the Thunderbird address book either.

I am utterly perplexed because they are obviously contacts and it must be in a common format or else it wouldn't open with Explorer. If Thunderbird won't import these then I wish it was mentioned on the import menu or somewhere so that I don't have to spend an hour reading and watching tutorials that are of no help. The contacts were from another computer and saved onto a new replacement computer by the Geek Squad (Best Buy).

Windows 10 Thunderbird 45.5.1

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I have a folder with files with the ".contact" extension that Windows recognizes because it opens them up and displays the contact information when I double click. I'll be damned if I can figure out how to import them into Thunderbird though. The import address book option does not seem to recognize them at all when using the following options: Outlook Express, Text file and Vcard file. The other two options "Eudora" and "Outlook" are greyed out. I can't drag the contact files into the Thunderbird address book either. I am utterly perplexed because they are obviously contacts and it must be in a common format or else it wouldn't open with Explorer. If Thunderbird won't import these then I wish it was mentioned on the import menu or somewhere so that I don't have to spend an hour reading and watching tutorials that are of no help. The contacts were from another computer and saved onto a new replacement computer by the Geek Squad (Best Buy). Windows 10 Thunderbird 45.5.1 thank ya

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Tyre
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Thank you,

They were in an owner\contacts folder on the desktop so I just moved them to c:\Users\username\Contacts and discovered the new options which you described. The CSV thing was just not working out, as you suspected, so I ended up importing each contact individually via vCard which creates it own contact group/book. I then dragged each contact into the personal address book and then deleted its book.

So... If this person or myself gets a new computer in the future and is still using Thunderbird then all I would have to do is copy "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\3jo0jh89.default" to the equivalent location on the new computer; thus avoiding all of this import export business?