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Brand new TB, want to populate Personal Address Book

Submitted by fergus on June 10, 2009 - 2:18am

Dear All,
I want to start a brand new TB on a new device but I would like to populate Personal Address Book with the contents of a correctly formatted tab-delimited text file. Using Import, whatever I try to do, all I can manage is a new named Address Book additional to Personal Address Book, while PAB remains empty, as does Collected Addresses. Any ideas? Thank you.
Fergus

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abook.mab

ottosykora - June 10, 2009 - 6:16am

if you transfer it from other TB, you could just try to copy the abook.mab from the profile and this should do it.

Otherwise for imports, I installed addon called more functions for addressbook, this has more usual import , export functions then the standard.

Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland

Move Contacts

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John T. Haller (Homepage) - June 10, 2009 - 9:13am

You can just move contacts from one address book to another in TB. TB always imports to a new address book.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Thanks: this worked perfectly

fergus - June 11, 2009 - 2:24am

Thank you!
I imported the tab-delimited text file into a new addressbook called anynamewilldo; then copied them en masse to an empty Personal Address Book; finally deleted anynamewilldo.
Fergus

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