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Thunderbird

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susan.j.eggers
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Hello volunteers -- I downloaded Thunderbird to a newer iMac. The Input messages and folders from my laptop appeared fine, but the addresses look like they are from Contacts rather than the laptop Address Book, i.e., names, phone numbers and postal addresses, but not email addresses. The first image (screenshot from an Apple laptop) is what I want; the second is what I got on the iMac. Is someone able to help me with this? Thanks very much, Susan

Hello volunteers -- I downloaded Thunderbird to a newer iMac. The Input messages and folders from my laptop appeared fine, but the addresses look like they are from Contacts rather than the laptop Address Book, i.e., names, phone numbers and postal addresses, but not email addresses. The first image (screenshot from an Apple laptop) is what I want; the second is what I got on the iMac. Is someone able to help me with this? Thanks very much, Susan
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david
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If you click an address, does it show properly? If you highlight a different addressbook, does the display change to show the name of the other addressbook? If you click the dropdown menu immediately to the right of the addressbook's search box and tick 'table layout' at the bottom, do you see the proper email addresses?

Please understand, if there is a problem, I do not have the solution. My hope in these questions is to see if the content is really there but the display is showing in which addressbook the address is stored. Thank you.

susan.j.eggers
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Thanks David.

If you click an address, does it show properly? 

    I have no email addresses to click in Thunderbird's MacOS X Address Book or All Address Books.  They both contain names, phone numbers and postal addresses.  In other words, they look exatly like the Contacts file. Why would the Contact file come over to Thunderbird when I download Thunderbird to the new iMac (rather than the address books from other computers)?  Thunderbird's Collected Addresses is accumulating the addresses of senders that I reply to.  Thunderbird's Personal Address Book contains the address of emails sent to me if I click on them and choose Add to Address Book.

If you highlight a different addressbook, does the display change to show the name of the other addressbook? 

  See above for what I see in all of Thunderbird's address books.

If you click the dropdown menu immediately to the right of the addressbook's search box and tick 'table layout' at the bottom, do you see the proper email addresses? 

  I see what I have described above.

Please understand, if there is a problem, I do not have the solution. My hope in these questions is to see if the content is really there but the display is showing in which addressbook the address is stored. Thank you.

BTW in Select Columns to Display, I'e checked EMail Addresses, but it's column in Table layout is blank.

Is there a way to copy the email addresses from one of my other computers (cut and paste), say the Apple laptop or import an address book from it?

Susan

david
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If the Apple can create an export file, either CSV, LDIF, or vcard (vcf), then you can import. Use tools>import>import from a file>import address books> and then select the format. I believe strongly that, since these are universal formats, that Apple exports in at least one of them.