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From: Jolly Roger on 7 Aug 2010 11:09
In article <201008070635464897-NOSPAMtsmohio(a)yahooca>,
Timothy Mathews <NOSPAMtsmohio(a)yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I've encountered a strange problem using Thunderbird for which the
> answer seems to be Apple rather than Mozilla. Thunderbird uses the
> Apple address book in one of its optional settings but, yesterday, when
> I tried to forward a message to someone, the address was incorrect.
> Assuming I'd just made a mistake, I opened the Apple address book on my
> MacBook Pro and saw the address was correct. After a lengthy time of
> double checking the listings, it became obvious that Thunderbird isn't
> "seeing" the correct Mac Address Book. Thinking it had to be an old
> address book hiding somewhere within Thunderbird, I completely removed
> Thunderbird from my system and then reinstalled it BUT, somehow, it's
> still finding the wrong addressbook and I can't find it.
>
> Can/will any of you clue me into the naming conventions for Apple
> Address Books so I might find the magical hidden one Thunderbird is
> accessing?
>
> To clarify, no address book shows up within any of my applications
> other than the "real" Mac Address Book so, except for this T-Bird
> fluke, everything seems normal with my system.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim

From what I am reading, it seems Thunderbird imports addresses from
Address Book. So I wonder if you are seeing Thunderbird's old copy of
what was in your address book.

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From: BreadWithSpam on 7 Aug 2010 13:42
Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> writes:

> In article <201008070635464897-NOSPAMtsmohio(a)yahooca>,
> Timothy Mathews <NOSPAMtsmohio(a)yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>> I've encountered a strange problem using Thunderbird for which the
>> answer seems to be Apple rather than Mozilla.
>
> Why would you say that when nothing points to the Address book as the
> point of failure.

> Is the "wrong" address one that you used with Thunderbird before and is
> being remembered within TB?

I think the question then is (aside from "What versions of the various
software are you using?") - when you "completely removed Thunderbird,"
as you said, are you sure you also removed all the preferences and
settings files?

We like to pretend that removing an application on a Mac is as simple as
tossing the application in the trash. That's partially true, but the
actual effects of doing so are dependent on a variety of things. Most
apps have preferences and settings files which live in places such as
your user-level Library folder, typically at
~/Library/Application Support/[Application name]
and
~/Library/Preferences/[something related to the app,
often like "org.mozilla.firefox.plist"]

Thunderbird used to keep your profile information in
~/Library/Preferences/Thunderbird/Profiles/

But I haven't used it in quite a while and it's possible that the
location has changed since then, with more recent releases.

>> Can/will any of you clue me into the naming conventions for Apple
>> Address Books so I might find the magical hidden one Thunderbird is
>> accessing?

Are you sure it's actively accessing a "live" Apple Address Book?
Is it possible that it's cached its own copy of it and you're seeing the
copy that was left over in a Profile that you didn't delete when you
tossed TBird?

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From: Erilar on 7 Aug 2010 16:00
I've asked this before, but the subject line made me long for an answer
again. SnowLeopard wiped out my address book and won't open the backup
because it "too old". I wonder if there's a workaround I haven't tried?


Can't open it on the backup hard drive because I can't avoid SL. Is
there something that might be able to open it?

I've rebuilt AN address book, but it's still not the size of the backup
I can't open. Mail.app remembered a number of e-mail addresses, but no
info to go with them, and many of those offer me no clues to jog my
memory.

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From: Jolly Roger on 8 Aug 2010 12:06
In article
<861800501302889478.900238drache-chibardun.netinvalid(a)news.eternal-septe
mber.org>,
Erilar <drache(a)chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:

> I've asked this before, but the subject line made me long for an answer
> again. SnowLeopard wiped out my address book and won't open the backup
> because it "too old". I wonder if there's a workaround I haven't tried?
>
>
> Can't open it on the backup hard drive because I can't avoid SL. Is
> there something that might be able to open it?
>
> I've rebuilt AN address book, but it's still not the size of the backup
> I can't open. Mail.app remembered a number of e-mail addresses, but no
> info to go with them, and many of those offer me no clues to jog my
> memory.

Wrong thread. You should have started a new one.

Anyhow, the only way to get that data is to open the address book on the
same system version that created it, then do an Export of the data that
you can then Import into your new address book.

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From: Erilar on 8 Aug 2010 19:36
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> In article
> <861800501302889478.900238drache-chibardun.netinvalid(a)news.eternal-septe
> mber.org>,
> Erilar <drache(a)chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>
>> I've asked this before, but the subject line made me long for an
> > answer
>> again. SnowLeopard wiped out my address book and won't open the
> > backup
>> because it "too old". I wonder if there's a workaround I haven't
> > tried?
>>
>>
>> Can't open it on the backup hard drive because I can't avoid SL. Is
>> there something that might be able to open it?
>>
>> I've rebuilt AN address book, but it's still not the size of the
> > backup
>> I can't open. Mail.app remembered a number of e-mail addresses, but
> > no
>> info to go with them, and many of those offer me no clues to jog my
>> memory.
>
> Wrong thread. You should have started a new one.
>
> Anyhow, the only way to get that data is to open the address book on
> the
> same system version that created it, then do an Export of the data
> that
> you can then Import into your new address book.

How? Delete SnowLeopard, reinstall Tiger, then reverse? I'd still have
something SL would sneer at and refuse to open, wouldn't I?

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