How can I copy the Thunderbird Address Book from Windows to Ubuntu?
I use Windows 8.1 on one Pc and Ubuntu 14.04 on the other.
Thanks in advance for your help
Best regards,
Ep
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I think the best way is to export the required address books to LDIF files on the first machine and import those LDIF files on the second machine.
Alternatively you can copy the the data *.mab files from one machine to the other. The two default address books are represented by abook.mab and history.mab and can be simply copied. Other user-defined address books will be named as abook1.mab etc and will need to be imported. I'd suggest MoreColumnsForAddressBook for this task.
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I think the best way is to export the required address books to LDIF files on the first machine and import those LDIF files on the second machine.
Alternatively you can copy the the data *.mab files from one machine to the other. The two default address books are represented by abook.mab and history.mab and can be simply copied. Other user-defined address books will be named as abook1.mab etc and will need to be imported. I'd suggest MoreColumnsForAddressBook for this task.
Thanks for your quick reply.
However when I export the adressbooks as LDIF files, only the file itself is exported, not the contents (the actual email adresses). And I cannot find the *mab files. What should I do next?
In the end I managed to get the LDIF files installed on my Ubuntu PC. Thank you very much for your support.