New email addresses go to personal address book regardless of the book I select in "edit details"
When I double click on the star next to a senders name in the header area to add them to my address book it pops up a small "Edit Contact" window. I select the address book I want the new address to go into and click "Edit Details". I enter the relevant info and click "OK". The new addresses always go into my Personal Addresses book instead of the book I selected in the original "Edit Contact" window. This is in Thunderbird 24.4.0. Tried it on 2 different PC's with the same result. One machine is Windows XP, the other is Windows 7. Any ideas?
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I think I found a work around. Click white star - it turns yellow. Click it again and select name and desired address book. Hit "Done". Click star a 3rd time and select "Edit details". Enter desired info and hit "OK". An extra step, but it works.
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Nope. Same thing happened - it went into my Personal Address book instead of the one I selected.
Still no joy. Regardless if in safe mode or normal. If I single click on the white star next to the senders name, the star turns yellow. Another single click on the star opens the dialog popup where I specify the name and desired address book. Then I select the "Edit Details" button which opens the properties dialog box to edit the contact info. I enter desired info and hit "OK". Address is stored in Personal address book regardless which address book I selected on the previous screen. HOWEVER, if I just type a name and desired address book in the first popup and hit "Done" instead of "Edit Details" it will be stored in the desired address book. Problem is, then I have to go look through that address book to find the name and then edit the details. Annoying.
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I think I found a work around. Click white star - it turns yellow. Click it again and select name and desired address book. Hit "Done". Click star a 3rd time and select "Edit details". Enter desired info and hit "OK". An extra step, but it works.
That's basically what I was typing when you were responding. It works with left click on the 3rd click on the star as well. Thanks.