Address book export
Thunderbird 31.1 Address book wont export all of 318 emails addresses. It stops at 275 or so. I export to a spreadsheet so I can edit them to be imported by GMAIL. I have tried exporting fewer addresses but for some reason I can't move more than 20 to another list to export. This would be an easy workaround if the current address book could be cut in half and exported 2x.
I use WIN 7, FireFox and Tbird.
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What exact steps are you using to export your address book and in what format?
I select the address book, click tools/export/(in csv format/ and save to my desktop. I then open the file with a spreadsheet to edit the book. It is at that point I don't see a number of entries from the address book. tks for help.
bw
Not a solution as such, but perhaps this add-on will put your contact where you want then without import and export https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/google-contacts/?src=ss
What happens if you export the address book to and LDIF file (Tools/Export, name the file) and then re-import it (Tools/Import...Address Books... Text file...select the LDIF file)? Does the re-imported book have all 318 contacts? If so, what happens if you export it to a csv (Tools/Export, Save as type:Comma separated)?
I exported a LDIF file and then opened it up in a spreadsheet, didn't copy all the addresses. the LDI files are somewhat clumsy to view. Tks though.
Bill
I also use WIN 7 (32 bit), FireFox (35.0.1) and Tbird (31.4) and have this problem too. However it's a new problem for me since I have exported my T-bird address book without difficulty on many occasions until now.
I have devised a work-round for it which works for me - as follows ...
a) export and save the address book as a .txt file b) open the result c) edit it - may be more or less fiddly depending on how you've got your address book organised d) what you need to achieve by the end of the edit is to get all the information for each entry in your address book as a single line of text with the email address as the single final item on the line and separated from everything else. I do this by inserting a ";" (use the 'search and replace' edit function) before the address, although I guess any single character will do which does not appear anywhere else in the address book. e) now highlight, copy and paste the edited .txt file into a spreadsheet. f) in OpenOffice (which I use) pasting in text data like this brings up a filter which asks you what separators are in the file, in my case it's ";" g) you should end up with a sheet containing one column of everything which is not the email address and a second column containing the email addresses only.
Let's hope you Mozilla guys can write code for the next version of Tbird which precludes the need for such a work-around.
Hope this helps