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how do I change the default location for where the address book is saved?

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I use 3 computers, my work PC, my laptop and my home PC. So it's very cumbersome to have to add one new contact to all three address books each time.

How do I change the default location of where Mozilla stores the address book, so I can change the path to point to my dropbox account, where I can do this for all three computers and then I will be using only one address book for all three installations.

How do I do this? Or is there another easier solution?

Thanks, Dan

I use 3 computers, my work PC, my laptop and my home PC. So it's very cumbersome to have to add one new contact to all three address books each time. How do I change the default location of where Mozilla stores the address book, so I can change the path to point to my dropbox account, where I can do this for all three computers and then I will be using only one address book for all three installations. How do I do this? Or is there another easier solution? Thanks, Dan

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Zenos
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It wasn't designed to be used this way. Sad, but true.

The usual workaround is to use "the cloud", that is, an online address book that all of your devices can access. I use Google Contacts, and. gContactSync in Thunderbird.

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I don't like the method to "sync" my contacts because what if I don't use my gmail contacts?

I use countermail and a few other email providers, so with 4 different email providers, I would go nuts to try to sync contacts between the 4.

If I can just have my contacts in Thunderbird, on dropbox or any other cloud storage and then point my Thunderbird instance to the contacts there.

Is this not possible?

Matt
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No it is not possible.