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In moving my Address Book to a new PC, I wound up with the Personal Address Book empty but another further down within the groups. Hos can I fix that?

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jbacinti
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In moving my Address Book to a new PC, I wound up with the Personal Address Book empty but another further down within the groups. Hos can I fix that?

I installed Thunderbird and is synced with my old PC on the network but didn't sync the Address Book. I had a few groups so I just exported to the cloud and imported them into the Address Book of the new PC. I don't now how the other PAB got there. What do I do?

In moving my Address Book to a new PC, I wound up with the Personal Address Book empty but another further down within the groups. Hos can I fix that? I installed Thunderbird and is synced with my old PC on the network but didn't sync the Address Book. I had a few groups so I just exported to the cloud and imported them into the Address Book of the new PC. I don't now how the other PAB got there. What do I do?

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Imported address books always go in a new book. Open the new book. Select one contact. Press control+a to select all. Drag and drop on Personal Address book folder.

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Imported address books always go in a new book. Open the new book. Select one contact. Press control+a to select all. Drag and drop on Personal Address book folder.

jbacinti
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Thanks Airmail. I may have a couple more questions as I get this new machine running the way I want.

jbacinti
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer

I deleted my original installation of Thunderbird on my new PC and tried to follow the instructions above. While it was a bit confusing, I'm pretty sue I did it according to the instructions but it basically brought back my original incorrect installation. Any ideas for me?

Thanks,

John

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Thank you!!! This worked for me: Imported address books always go in a new book. Open the new book. Select one contact. Clicked Edit tab, Select all. Drag and dropped on Personal Address book folder.