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extracting all email and names of email senders and/or recipients?

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hi gents.

is there a way for me to print out a list of senders and recipients for all this mail so i can manually extract contacts from this "archive"?

i seem to be in high archive mode here trying to create an "email" archive of old and extremely poorly saved TB profiles. i have been doing this by importing ALL the MBOX files via Import Export Tools on the mac (high sierra).

alternatively - or if this is not possible - is there a single file or files i can recover from within the PROFILE FOLDERS for each of the ten or twelve TB profiles i have archived willy nilly on my hard drive?

is there also a file that would contain "Thunderbird contacts" somehow that i should also try to recover? which i assume is separate from a sort of ALL SENT TO or ALL RECEIVED FROM list?

i'd love to at least be able to review this information on paper so that i can manually recover the various professional contacts i have run into over the years and put them into my new contact database.

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hi gents. is there a way for me to print out a list of senders and recipients for all this mail so i can manually extract contacts from this "archive"? i seem to be in high archive mode here trying to create an "email" archive of old and extremely poorly saved TB profiles. i have been doing this by importing ALL the MBOX files via Import Export Tools on the mac (high sierra). alternatively - or if this is not possible - is there a single file or files i can recover from within the PROFILE FOLDERS for each of the ten or twelve TB profiles i have archived willy nilly on my hard drive? is there also a file that would contain "Thunderbird contacts" somehow that i should also try to recover? which i assume is separate from a sort of ALL SENT TO or ALL RECEIVED FROM list? i'd love to at least be able to review this information on paper so that i can manually recover the various professional contacts i have run into over the years and put them into my new contact database. THANKS

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Why not just load up the profiles and export the contacts?

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Why not just load up the profiles and export the contacts?

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ok. THANKS. sorry it has been awhile. so load each individual profile one at a time and run some pull down that will let me export contacts to a csv or something? actually i forget. what is implied by “contacts” in TB exactly? is this any sender i have sent mail to? anyone i have received mail from? both? or is it like mac mail and i have to manually create a contact?