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copy address book entries?

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Davik03
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I have a number of address books - the collected addresses where t'bird puts everything, and a number of specific others, eg family, professional colleagues, university class contacts etc. The effort to do that was painful.

What I want to do is move (but copy then delete would do) a whole entry, eg jim smith and all his details, from one book to another. But I can't do that. Instead, it involves a painstaking copy and paste of each element (name, mail address, nickname, phone number etc) of a contact properties one after another between the address book where it is now, and where I want it to be. And when it's all done, then delete that contact from the old book. It should not be this hard.

How can I just move or copy contact 'properties' (all of them in one operation) from one book to another?

Davidk03

I have a number of address books - the collected addresses where t'bird puts everything, and a number of specific others, eg family, professional colleagues, university class contacts etc. The effort to do that was painful. What I want to do is move (but copy then delete would do) a whole entry, eg jim smith and all his details, from one book to another. But I can't do that. Instead, it involves a painstaking copy and paste of each element (name, mail address, nickname, phone number etc) of a contact properties one after another between the address book where it is now, and where I want it to be. And when it's all done, then delete that contact from the old book. It should not be this hard. How can I just move or copy contact 'properties' (all of them in one operation) from one book to another? Davidk03

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You can use ctrl while dragging to make it a copy rather than a move.

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christ1
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What I want to do is move (but copy then delete would do) a whole entry, eg jim smith and all his details, from one book to another. But I can't do that.

What prevents you from doing that? It's possible to drag and drop contacts between address books.

Davik03
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That simple.

Been using TB for years, and cannot recall ever having any success with that early on, so never tried it again.

But there's a catch. If you drag and drop, have made a mistake and delete the entry in it's new location, intending to go back and try a 2nd time - it's gone totally. And there's no undo in address books that I could find, experimenting with this.

Davidk03

Zenos
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You can use ctrl while dragging to make it a copy rather than a move.