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upgrading TB and importing address books

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I use Mac 10.15.7. I want to upgrade Thunderbird from 78.14.0 to 91.11.0. I tried upgrading in the fall and had a lot of problems with address books, but I want to try again. I have a lot of address books. In case I have to re-import the contacts to the individual address books, what is the best way to export each address book from 78.14 so that 91.11 will accept it when I import it back in? The options are comma sep, tab delim, vcard, and ldif. Thank you.

I use Mac 10.15.7. I want to upgrade Thunderbird from 78.14.0 to 91.11.0. I tried upgrading in the fall and had a lot of problems with address books, but I want to try again. I have a lot of address books. In case I have to re-import the contacts to the individual address books, what is the best way to export each address book from 78.14 so that 91.11 will accept it when I import it back in? The options are comma sep, tab delim, vcard, and ldif. Thank you.

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david
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I don't remember the format of release 78, but if it was abook.mab, the current release has an import feature for mab addressbooks.

soapbox
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Good to know, thanks! Yes, most of the address book files are abook.mab with various numbers, and a few are sqlite

I'd be interested in hearing anyone else's experience with importing multiple address books.

Wayne Mery
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I have about a dozen and they converted fine. How many do you have?

soapbox
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Around 60. A few organizations that had various projects.