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14th April 2018 at 14:47 #1893
I use Cardbook as a stand-alone, not connected to a server. I need to create a fresh Thunderbird profile (to fix some issues in the old profile) and reinstall the addons. There are questions:
1. install the Cardbook add-on first and then copy over the old profile Cardbook directories or
2. copy old Cardbook directory to new profile first and install the add-on later
Or some other approach I have not thought of?
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14th April 2018 at 15:37 #1894
if you use a local address book (and not a directory or a file), you should copy the storage directory where is the indexedDB database used by Cardbook…. not sure this is the best approach as you might copy others things within this directory…
I advise you to export all your contacts to a directory and then to reimport them in a newly created address book… and don’t forget to make backups ;O)
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14th April 2018 at 16:53 #1895
There must be a better approach. I have 16 address books, all in the directory [my_old_profile]\*.mab and also as [my_old_profile]\cardbook.
I guess one approach is to collapse these to a single address book and use the Category feature of Cardbook to segregate the addresses. Then export and import.
I tried installing Cardbook in the new (empty) profile and copying over the cardbook and mab files from [my_old_profile]. This does not work.
I wonder if a server approach would be better. Can I change to a “server” cardbook repository and preserve the current multiple address book configuration? How?
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14th April 2018 at 18:27 #1896
you can not change the type of an address book… you have to create remote address book… export|import to|from a directory is the easiest I think…
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14th April 2018 at 19:24 #1897
OK. This worked.
- In the old profile, Export existing Cardbook Address books as *.vcf files. One for each Address book.
- In the new profile, Import each *.vcf to create a new Address Book. The sequence is New Address Book>Local>Open Existing>Select the exported *.vcf.
- Re-select the colour
What would be an improvement is that the colour travelled with the address book VCF Export file.
This ‘solution’ could be added to the Wiki.
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14th April 2018 at 20:01 #1898
for the colors and others address book related properties, you may get them from your old profile in the file prefs.js (all the lines *cardbook*data*)
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