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how to migrate address book

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SafeTex
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Hello

I recently migrated Thunderbird to a second computer and it went really well thanks to help on the forum

But I now need to migrate all my addresses only to another computer with Thunderbird

How is this done please? It is using csv lists and if so, how would I deal with duplicate addresses as some of theses addresses are already in Thunderbirds on the second computer

Thanks in advance for your help

Hello I recently migrated Thunderbird to a second computer and it went really well thanks to help on the forum But I now need to migrate all my addresses only to another computer with Thunderbird How is this done please? It is using csv lists and if so, how would I deal with duplicate addresses as some of theses addresses are already in Thunderbirds on the second computer Thanks in advance for your help

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Open Address Book, select an address book in the left pane (not All Addresses), then Tools/Export, Save as type: LDIF, name the file. On the other computer, Tools/Import...Address books...Text file... select the LDIF file. When you select All Addresses, contacts are displayed for every address book in which they are stored. If you have the MoreFunctionsForAddressBook add-on, a list of all address books containing a contact is shown when you click Search in the Contact Pane. This makes it easy to delete unnecessary duplicates.

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SafeTex
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Thanks sfhowes

I can live with the duplicates and as I will have to do this operation occasionally from my main computer to my backup computer, i can just delete the old copied addresses and add the new lists again

Regards