This should work. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_address_books_between_profiles

thanks christ1. I guess I'm not yet smart enough to get this done. read & followed the link above but can't get the LDIF form of the file. in MAB form, was able to get it to drop box and thumb drive but TBird doesn't want to give the option to load anything to the right place. Just doesn't seem that it should be so hard to simply copy an address file from on version of TBird to another.

Guess I could print it out and manually type it in, but for an accumulated 700+entries...

Arne

As long as you didn't create any other address books in addition to the Personal Address Book, it is indeed a simple copy and paste of two files from one profile to the other (or from one computer to the other). What you need to copy and from where to where is explained in the article, and I can't explain it any better than that. Alternatively you can copy over the entire profile to the new computer, so you can just continue to use Thunderbird on the new computer without any hassle to set up accounts again, etc. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_to_a_new_PC

Again, Thank you for the effort christ1!!

 I got as far as getting the W7 TBird profile on a thumb drive.  But in trying to follow the article's instructions, it is hardly a simple copy and paste operation.  Profile names must be the same, find the profile with a "-P" switch -- I did, go up one level to an address that starts with (%XXXXX%...) HUH???

I tried "MozBackup" too with absolutely no success. That program gets to a place where it wants a file location (which I can get/find) but there is no apparent way to enter the file's location. Dead in the water at this point.

All this plus trying to have 3 or 4 articles open at the same time and trying to read between all of them as they refer back and forth frequently.

I give up!! May be time to learn the new MS Edge program and retire TBird to the history books.

Thanks for your efforts!!

Edit, don't know why the first paragraph is on a scroll, sorry.

If you always start trying new things when getting stuck with one attempt this is not going to work. First of all, decide what you want to do:

• move the entire profile, or
• just move the address book?

In the latter case, it is a simple matter of copy and paste two files, assuming there are no additional address books you created. But you didn't mention if that's the case. And you didn't mention either where you got stuck with this.

I got as far as getting the W7 TBird profile on a thumb drive. But in trying to follow the article's instructions, it is hardly a simple copy and paste operation. Profile names must be the same, find the profile with a "-P" switch -- I did, go up one level to an address that starts with (%XXXXX%...) HUH???

Please state in detail for each step

• what you did
• what happened
• what you expect to happen