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I am trying to export my contacts FROM Thunderbird TO Spectrum email. In Thunderbird, I open my contacts and select my personal address book and click EXPORT. I save the file as vcard to my desktop. I open my Spectrum.net email and click import, select the file and I keep getting an error message saying "we are unable to save your changes, please try again." I contacted Spectrum and they said it was a Thunderbird problem. Can you please help me?

I've been a Thunderbird(TB) user for many years. Or I should say "was". A few months ago my computer was hacked. As a result I was unable to access my TB account. Since then I've had no choice but to use Gmail.

  When I lost access to TB I also lost all of my contacts. Is it possible to get a list of those contacts. Even if it was just the names, and not the passwords, that would still be big help. My  username here was pwrichcreek@twc.com. That email address is no longer valid.

Thanks for your consideration, SweetTasha

I've created a number of (corporate) Address Books, each with detailed information (postal addresses, phone numbers, etc). Often, I get a bounce-back message along the lines of '...please contact John Doe at JohnDoe@mail.com or Jane Doe at JohnDoe@mail.com.' I want to be able to select the original Address Book entry, and copy it to a new entry within the same Address Book, where I can then edit the 2 or 3 differences, instead of having to 1.) create it from scratch, or 2.) export, import, edit... Is there a simple way to just copy an entry to a new entry and let me edit it?? (ideally before saving, but, hey, beggars can't be choosers)

Thunderbird wanted to install a new version, i downloaded and now all of my contacts have disappeared, i no longer have any of their addresses, how to i get them back?

A scammer has gotten into my address book what can I do to stop - there was a way to enter 00000 at the beginning of your address book to stop them from running through it

I am using Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC, Version 21H2, and Mozilla Thunderbird 140.3.1esr (64-Bit)

Suddenly, the number of entries in my address book has shrunk to 259. The size of the file abook.sqlite was 768 kB. Following the advice on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database, I did Rebuilding the Global Database That did not have an effect on my address book, the lost email addresses did not reappear. What can I do?

Matthias (now to this forum)

When I click on address book and new contact, a dark area covers half the screen and I can only see half the new contact page, and cannot move the page up (after entering First Name) or up (to enter email address),

When in an e mail which has an e mail group from my own address book in the TO: field, how do I click on it and see the addresses included in the e mail group?

I have been trying all week to figure out how to export all of my contacts from my gmail account. I have downloaded Thunderbird and followd the step to export all emails. But, now what? I can't do the simple export contacts through adddress book, because there were no saved contacts in their to begin with. How do I export the addresses in the emails so that I can use those contacts to export into CSV????

Hello:

I'd like to sync my address books across several computers and my Android phone.

I don't know about the security of Carddave or Exchange, like, is the traffic encrypted, and is the database at the cloud end encrypted too.

Since I can log on to my Google account, and see and edit my address book, I expect those address are not encrypted.

Rather, I'd like to use my syncing program (Mega) to sync the sqllite files (I guess T-Bird used to call them MAB files) and any other needed files directly.

Question 1) How do I find the name of the address book (abook-n.sqlite-wal) related to the name like "Family Contacts"?

Question 2) What other files will I need to sync? any index files? a master list?

Question 3) If I install Thunderbird for Android, where should I put these files so Android finds them?

Thanks for taking the time to read this and any help you may offer.

Mark.

We've successfully set up a Hotmail account as an IMAP account; all the emails/folders seem to appear properly, though deletions made on Outlook.com don't seem to show up.

But for now, we have this problem: none of the contacts from the Hotmail account appear in the Thunderbird address book.

How can we (1) get those contacts and (2) keep them up to date, preferably automatically.

Thank you.

Using TB 141.0 MS Word 11 Too many wrong videos, too many old explanations. It's August 2025. Please, I'm not a computer wiz. Just a home novice. OK with specific directions. How to export my Gmail contacts list and import it to my TB contacts. I have tried basic gmail export...but should it be "google .csv", " or what? I don't think I have Outlook loaded anymore on windows 11. If you could help by actually sending me instructions that I will follow direct. ie: Sign into Gmail>click on contact file to be exported>export contacts and click "google .csv" (or the correct choice there)..then what? I've been trying and it wants me to save to a file...but how? And which file? I know it's an effort on your part, but I will print and save going forward. Thanks so much. LS in AZ.

I can't find a way to create a new contact list.

The help says to go to the "File" menu. I don't see a file menu.

An online search for “Thunderbird add contact list” suggested I click on "New List." I don't see it.

I just updated to version 128.14.0esr (64 bit). I don't see the missing menus in this version either.