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Address Book Importing

Thunderbird Installation and updates
david replied 2 years ago
Tim Marciniak
Tim Marciniak

Hi, I'm a MTB newbie Version 115.11.1 and am just trying to import my comcast.net address book from CSV. MTB seems to be totally confused about the columns. I'd be happy to adjust the column assignments, as I think I'm supposed to, but it won't let me. The automatically selected column name is the only option allowed in the drop-down. See attached.

Is this by design? Do I need to reorder the columns within the exported file. Seems a bit much really, but ultimately doable, I guess.

Any other options? Or what am I doing wrong

TIA Tim

Hi, I'm a MTB newbie Version 115.11.1 and am just trying to import my comcast.net address book from CSV. MTB seems to be totally confused about the columns. I'd be happy to adjust the column assignments, as I think I'm supposed to, but it won't let me. The automatically selected column name is the only option allowed in the drop-down. See attached. Is this by design? Do I need to reorder the columns within the exported file. Seems a bit much really, but ultimately doable, I guess. Any other options? Or what am I doing wrong TIA Tim
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david
david
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The technique I have used is this: - export a csv from thunderbird, even if just one email address in the addressbook. Use this as a template - use a spreadsheet program to load the comcast csv and mirror the column settings of the thunderbird csv - the import should then go smoothly