What goes wrong? I hope it finds the CSV file?

Does the import fail with any error messgaes?

Does it appear to run but with no useful result?

Are you doing the lining up of available data fields with available categories?

I write about this in the second half of this article: http://xenos-email-notes.simplesite.com/417788922

Some users prefer to do this by working with the CSV file in a spreadsheet program.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Import_address_list_from_text_file

Zenos, Thanks for your reply. No it doesn't find the csv file. The exported file from OLE is a csv file which can be opened in excel. However when I try to import after clicking on address books,then text file(ldif, tab,csv,etc,) then browse to the folder with the csv file it will not display the csv file which I know is there .. ( opened it with excel). I was following your "From somewhere else to Thunderbird:" from your post. I have thunderbird 38.5.1 installed. I would appreciate any other suggestions. jjanisse

When you browsed to the folder with the csv, did you set the file type to Comma separated?

type *.* in the dilog box where the file name goes and press enter. My guess is Excel has renamed it to XLE and using the wildcards will show you all the files the folder contains.

Now you hve opened the CSV file in Excel you need to open it in Notepad and in the files save as dialog explicitly set it to save as UTF-8 instead of ANSI. This is a change Excel makes that renders the CSV file unreadable to Thunderbird. I am not sure why Excel converts to this much older and "English only" centric text style, but it does.

Thanks Matt. The *.* did the trick...it displayed the csv file in the import window.