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Trying to backup thunderbird address books. Online help says to select the address book, go to tools, then export and select file type. Instructions say should see file format options like csv but the only option showing on mine is zip with no other options. I can backup the entire profile, and have done so, but how bo I backup the address book?

I'm aware David replyed to me. Usually if I uninstall Thunderbird and reinstall thunderbird, my addresses are usually there, but this didn't happen this time. My folders weren't loading correctly so I thought TB may be currupt, so I felt it may be worthwhile uninstalling and reinstalling, but may be the worst idea unless there is a way to get the contacts back. I think it's pretty straight forward, what I hope for a goal or at least learn why my address contacts did not load. Usually I download TB from the Mozilla TB site, but it sceems necessary to get the app from the microsoft store. It just sceems like the address book recovery services are not there, so I need a older version.

I just installed Thunderbird 140 for mac and it seems that it does not see the macos address book. Therefore the addresses do not auto complete when writing a new email.

I just installed Thunderbird on a new computer. I hadn't used Thunderbird in some time. I can't seem to add ANY remote address books. There is an option to add an address book account. When I click on it, I get a dialogue box which lists several options which get highlighted whenever I mouse over then, however, when I click on ANY of the options, nothing happens.

How, then, can I add a CardDav address book to this?

I have several cards in my address book that have two email addresses on the card. When using Thunderbird and selecting the card does Thunderbird send the email to BOTH addresses? I'm a long time user of both Firefox and Thunderbird. John Feagin Birmingham, AL jfeagin@charter.net

My contacts are a hot mess. For fear of destruction, I have not done any housekeeping. I feel like in past, my elementary trial and error tests have yielded inconsistent results. (It could be my brain that yields inconsistent results.) e.g. Add or delete a test contact on either side, seems to end up confusing me more! I'd love to read about sync priorities or settings yet seems like all I can find is Q&A forums or a download for a printable PDF that is reputedly maybe out of date...

☺Is there a basic, extended primer on how address books and syncing work with TB?

My: "Personal Address Book" has 9K+ entries, yet the google contacts that seems to reside in "Address Book" has only 4K+, which matches my contacts on google site.

I want to begin the arduous process of deleting "duplicates", many of which seem to be not really identical, and I need to ascertain what is current...

But where to start? My fear is if I go to contacts.google.com and do a ton of culling, that at the next sync everything that I deleted will be restored by TB.

Another concern is android syncing to google but I suppose that's another forum. I use Bluemail currently...I just got used to it. I think I finally got past the issues with "phone storage" vs "Google storage" and then I finally realized that linking my phone to 2 separate google accounts wasn't helping.☺

Should I switch to Thunderbird Mobile? Does it sync nicely with android/google? Is every different phone going to behave differently?

TIA and forgive my ignorance.

Hello - My Thunderbird address book has disappeared. I used to access it in the Tools menu, but Address Book is no longer an option in the menu. There are still several abook files in the profile folder, but no way to access them. I think this happened after a recent Thunderbird update, but I am not sure which one. I am currently on version 140.1.0esr (64-bit), on Windows 11 Home version 24H2. Thanks. Glen

I recently updated my wife's extremely old Thunderbird version (52.??? or thereabouts) to the latest available version -- 141.0. Her address books vanished. Hoping they are somewhere in the Thunderbird folder waiting for someone in this forum to tell me how to access them. Thanks so much.

How do I transfer my email contact list to another person. I knew how with the old Thunderbird, but it doesn't work with the new version.

Thank you,

Karen Walden bkwalden@diamondnet.us

I would like to share all my contacts in my Address book. When I click on Export, Thunderbird exports my profile and address book into one file. This file is unreadable by others. All I want to do is share all my contacts.

Darryl

Used Thunderbird for years on Windows, then migrated to new Apple laptop (Mac Air M4 w/ Sequoia 15.6). After much effort and searching on-line support was able to successfully install my old profile from my Windows backup H/D. This restored all my emails and calendar. However, was not able to invoke my address book from within a new message, as in Windows version of Thunderbird. The address book files, Abook.mab & history.mab, are in my new MacOS Thunderbird library. There doesn't seem to be any way from the Thunderbird top menu to bring up the address book except by starting a new contact File->new->Address Book Contact. Am I missing something? Is this just a difference in the way Thunderbird was implemented for the different platforms? By design? I see references in the Support pages about "integration" of the address book under MacOS and ask whether this implies some sort of interaction/merging with the built-in Apple contacts.app but the only evidence I see of this is when the Address book is open, a new address book "Mac OS X address book" is available. Thanks for any clarification you can provide.

I am experiencing an issue in Thunderbird where the display name in the message list does not update correctly for certain email addresses.

Environment

Thunderbird version: (e.g., 115.12.1 64bit)

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit (version ...)

Symptoms

I deleted the entire address book (abook.sqlite, history.sqlite, etc.), so it is completely empty.

However, in the Sent or Inbox folder, some addresses still show the old display name that I previously assigned.

When I right-click the address → "Add to Address Book", the new display name is not applied for these specific addresses.

Other addresses work fine under the same conditions.

Tried

Deleted cache files (global-messages-db.sqlite, .msf, panacea.dat)

Cleared Collected Addresses

Created a new profile and tested again

Restored profile from one week ago

Result

In all cases, some addresses still do not update the display name.

Question

Is this a known Thunderbird bug?

Besides clearing caches and history, is there any way to control the priority of display name shown in the message list?

I HAVE A GMAIL ACCOUNT BUT HAVE NO THING IN THE ADDRESS BOOK BUT MY THUNDERBIRD ACCOUNT HAS AN ADDRESS BOOK THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO GMAIL. CAN YOU HELP PLEASE? Regards Marie Bush

Hellow. A year ago ore so, I lost my "Address Book". And this happened when I reinstalled Thunderbird, but used the same profile from the first install. The "Address Book" was gone...... I am now running 128.13.0esr (64-bit) on Ubuntu 24.04.2 Now I have gathered up "profiles" that I have used over the years and are trying to import them into to days version. But I can't seem to find the AddressBook's file. So can someone please tell me the name of this file and wear it's hidden ?

Good afternoon Thunderbird Help Community,

My Inbox in Thunderbird has always allowed me to add an email address for an incoming email sender and then edit that address as was best for organizing the mailbox.

So, for example, this email address:

Bobby Jersey <BobbyJersey@garwoodsecurities.net> does not allow me to add it to my Address book or edit the name to be for example BROKER-GWS Bobby Jersey vs. the full name and email address spelled out.

On the other hand, an email received from another sender Rui Amorim <rui.amorim@chase.com> could be added and edited from Amorim, Rui to Rui Amorim.

I don't understand how to fix this and why it seems so random as to which addresses are accepted and which not.

Thanks for any help to clarify what should be done to fix this.

Best, Mansoor IJAZ <mansoor.ijaz@ijazholdings.com>