Import one TB addressbook to another

[Patricia Hughes]

How do I import a TB addressbook to TB? I have an addressbook which has
some useful addresses already in it, thus I don't want simply to replace
it. I have another TB addressbook with lots more useful addresses and I
want them all in one place. I bet it's something really simple!
Thanks

[Zio_Pecos]

did you try the import tool?

Zio_Pecos

Patricia Hughes said the following on 27/11/2009 0.00:

[Ron Hunter]

You should define a new addressbook, then change the name of the old
addressbook file, and move it to the new profile. It will appear as a
new addressbook, and you can must drag and drop the selected addresses
into your current addressbook, and then delete the old book.
I don't know of a simple way to merge them, although there might well be
an extension to do this, or should be.

[Big_Al]

Patricia Hughes said this on 11/26/2009 6:00 PM:

I would export the current address book.
Then replace the current with the old.
Then import the previously exported data.

Leaving you with a merged set.

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 11/26/2009 04:00 PM, Patricia Hughes wrote:

How do I import a TB addressbook to TB? I have an addressbook which has some useful addresses already in it, thus I don't want simply to replace it. I have another TB addressbook with lots more useful addresses and I want them all in one place. I bet it's something really simple!
Thanks

Drag and drop? Seriously. Assuming you have two addressbooks visible in TB go to the one address book, select which address you wish to copy/move and drag and drop them into the other address book. As is standard, just dragging and dropping will move them - holding Ctrl down while dropping will copy them.

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Andrew DeFaria
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[Patricia Hughes]

Zio_Pecos wrote:
> did you try the import tool?
>

> *Zio_Pecos*

I did - it only gives options to import from Eudora, Outlook, Outlook
Express or text files (LDIF, .tab, .csv, .txt) - bit of a hole in the
spec, I would say

[Patricia Hughes]

Thanks! That feels like a fairly elegant solution, and minimal work. I
will give it a try (taking backups of everything at every stage :-)).

[Patricia Hughes]

Thanks - I'm sure that would work but think I may go with the next
suggestion re exporting and re-importing. Less work!

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 11/27/2009 11:15 AM, Patricia Hughes wrote:

Ron Hunter wrote:

On 11/26/2009 5:00 PM, Patricia Hughes wrote:

How do I import a TB addressbook to TB? I have an addressbook which has
some useful addresses already in it, thus I don't want simply to replace
it. I have another TB addressbook with lots more useful addresses and I
want them all in one place. I bet it's something really simple!
Thanks

You should define a new addressbook, then change the name of the old addressbook file, and move it to the new profile.ďż˝ It will appear as a new addressbook, and you can must drag and drop the selected addresses into your current addressbook, and then delete the old book.

I don't know of a simple way to merge them, although there might well be an extension to do this, or should be.

Thanks - I'm sure that would work but think I may go with the next suggestion re exporting and re-importing. Less work!

Simply highlight all entries (Control-A works) and drag and drop them to the other addressbook. What could be less work than that?

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[Andrew DeFaria]

Not that he listens to what I say but I've had great success using the LDIF files...

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