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New address book name & location

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I recently created a new profile, changing from POP3 to IMAP in order to meet the new Microsoft security requirements. All went well until I went to change my address book backup copy routine to access my address book in the new profile.. I cannot find any .MAB nor .SQLITE files anywhere! My address book is out there somewhere, as I can bring it up in Thunderbird, but I cannot find the actual file. What's going on?

Running TB 115.12.2 (32-bit), Windows 10 10.0.19045 Build 19045

I recently created a new profile, changing from POP3 to IMAP in order to meet the new Microsoft security requirements. All went well until I went to change my address book backup copy routine to access my address book in the new profile.. I cannot find any .MAB nor .SQLITE files anywhere! My address book is out there somewhere, as I can bring it up in Thunderbird, but I cannot find the actual file. What's going on? Running TB 115.12.2 (32-bit), Windows 10 10.0.19045 Build 19045

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First, Microsoft still allows POP accounts. I would be interested in reading whatever gave you that information. Second, click help>troubleshootinginformation - scroll down to 'profile folder' and click 'open folder' - you are now in the profile and the addressbook prefix is abook, so you should see abook.sqlite

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Suluhisho teule

First, Microsoft still allows POP accounts. I would be interested in reading whatever gave you that information. Second, click help>troubleshootinginformation - scroll down to 'profile folder' and click 'open folder' - you are now in the profile and the addressbook prefix is abook, so you should see abook.sqlite

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Thanks for the help, David. I misspoke.. it's not POP going away, it's that the current version of Thunderbird does not offer the required security setting of 0Auth2 for POP accounts; at least I was unable to find it. See:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/microsoft-oauth-authentication-and-thunderbird-202 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online

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Security is still there. I don't know why, but I have seen several posts with the assumption that POP was no longer supported. It's not a problem, since you successfully switched. :)

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