Hi :) I always use the csv export option and then have to play around with the formating in a text-editor. I am looking forwards to moving our address book off Access and onto something much less dumb. Address books inside email-clients worry me because of problems a few decades ago! lol, ie does anyone remember the christmas card that forwarded itself to anyone on the receivers address book? Regards from Tom :)
--- On Sun, 29/1/12, Joep L. Blom <jlb...@neuroweave.nl> wrote: From: Joep L. Blom <jlb...@neuroweave.nl> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening thunderbird adressbook To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: "NoOp" <gl...@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sunday, 29 January, 2012, 22:43 On 29-01-12 21:01, NoOp wrote: > On 01/29/2012 06:41 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: >> Le 29/01/2012 01:24, Joep L. Blom a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> >>> OS Xubuntu 10.04; LO 3.4.5 directly installed from the LO website as >>> Ubuntu 10.04 still has 3.3.2. >> >> Known issue with the 3.4.x series, especially on Ubuntu. >> >> >>> Hopefully somebody has succeeded in accessing the Thunderbird address >>> book or is this solved in 3.5? >> >> Well it is supposed to be fixed in the future 3.5, at least in RC2 the >> addressbook wizard works again, on all platforms as far as I can tell, >> BUT, the mozab (mozilla address book support) doesn't seem to be able to >> be built on Ubuntu at the moment, which means that unless the Ubuntu >> people sort it out, the distrib versions still won't work with the TB >> addressbook. > > The wizard still doesn't work on > LibreOffice 3.5.0rc2 > Build ID: e371a95-bf68a13-5a1aa2b-d3c1ae9-b938258 > .deb from LO. It's nothing to do with the distrib - but this is running > on Ubuntu 10.10. > > However, opening Base& selecting connect to existing database does show > (for me) 'SeaMonkey Address Book' and 'Thunderbird/IceDove Address Book' > - those do work - partially[1]. > However, Edit|Database|Properties is greyed out on SeaMonkey, I can > only select 'Connection type'. On Thunderbird I can select the profile. > > [1] I ran a test by adding test addressbooks on Thundrbird and SeaMonkey > (both are Mozilla versions, not distro related) in additionto the > regular exising address books: > > In SeaMonkey: TestingSeaMonkey w/1 address > In Thunderbird: ThunderbirdTest w/1 address > > I then opened 3.5RC2& opened Base|Connect to existing > database|Thunderbird/IceDove Address Book|Finish|Yes Register|Open for > editing| Base opens the SeaMonkey address book (SeaMonkey version 2.7b5) > instead of the Thunderbird (version 9.0.1) address book. I can tell this > because it included the 'TestingSeaMonkey' address book in the tables. > If I repeat the above opening the SeaMonkey address book, Base opens the > correct address book (the SeaMonkey one which includes 'TestingSeaMonkey'. > > So something is still screwed up. Profiles/address books for both are > exactly where they should be: > Thunderbird: ~/.thunderbird/<profile>/ > SeaMonkey: ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<profile>/ > Alex and Gerry, Thanks for clarifying the issue. I will wait for the official 3.5 release and than try again. At the moment I'm too busy to delve further in this problem but I need it urgently in March as I have to do a mailing. If it's not solved, I will import the Address Book in a spreadsheet after exporting it as a .csv file. Thanks again for the clarification and the testing (Gerry). Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
