Default address book

How can I make address book of my gmail account as default?
Secondly if I want to add email address of any downloaded emails or incoming emails then by default they add it to my default address book of my gmail account.

You can't change the default address book, but if you use the Contacts sidebar (F9 in a Write window), you can select which address book appears when the sidebar is visible.
When you click the yellow start next to a sender's address in the Message Header to add it to an address book, the first click stores it in Personal Address Book, but if you click the star again, it's possible to select the address book from the drop-down list.

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ICloud destroys default address book.

Using iCloud for Outlook 2010 on Multiple W7Pro PC's and also have multiple MACs using Lion. Outlook sync on the PC destroys all entries to the Default Address Book and writes them to the iCloud Address Book making all tasks and Calendar entries not visible on the Outlook Home page. The problem is that the Default Address Book is still there and empty and many addins that use Outlook want to see addresses in the Default Address Book. New contacts end up in the Default Address Book and then get synced to iCloud. However, changes to the iCloud calendar in Outlook only sync to iCal on other Apple machines, not to other PC's with iCloud and Outlook sync turned on.
There are lots of us loyal Apple enthusiasts who still have to live in a PC World at the office. Apple doesn't have any help on this subject and has just thumbed their nose at customers like us. They sure should pop up a warning on the perils of Outlook sync.
Any help is appreciated.

That is standard Outlook behaviour with subscription accounts, such as iCloud. There is no workaround unless you dump Outlook, or iCloud. I would dump Outlook, it's awful unless you have an Exchange account.

How to move old address book (XP) into new computer (8.1) as the existing default address book.

I have exported the address book in LDIF format and have also found the abook.mab file in my old XP computer. My new W8.1 address book is totally empty. I don't know where to find the Profile folder on W8.1 and when I import the LDIF it creates a new address book folder which I don't want. I just want everything in the default address book.

Open the newly created address book. Click on one contact to select it. Hit control+a to select them all. Drag and drop them on the personal Address Book folder to move them there.

To get GAL of non default address book from multiple accounts in outlook

I have two domain accounts configured in my outlook, for example [email protected] and [email protected]
There are 2 address books (Please refer to the picture attached). I want to show user to SelectNameDialog by adding the recipients from non-default account's address book. But it adds the names to the selectnamedialog from the default address book and displays.
C# code : Outlook.SelectNamesDialog snd = app.Session.GetSelectNamesDialog();
How to get non-default account’s address book programmatically.
ThankYou for your suggestion.
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to get non-default account’s address book programmatically.
void DisplayGlobalAddressListForStore()
Outlook.Folder currentFolder =
Application.ActiveExplorer().CurrentFolder
as Outlook.Folder;
Outlook.Store currentStore = currentFolder.Store;
if (currentStore.ExchangeStoreType !=
Outlook.OlExchangeStoreType.olNotExchange)
Outlook.SelectNamesDialog snd =
Application.Session.GetSelectNamesDialog();
Outlook.AddressList addrList =
GetGlobalAddressList(currentStore);
if (addrList != null)
snd.InitialAddressList = addrList;
snd.Display();
public Outlook.AddressList GetGlobalAddressList(Outlook.Store store)
string PR_EMSMDB_SECTION_UID =
@"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3D150102";
if (store == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException();
Outlook.PropertyAccessor oPAStore = store.PropertyAccessor;
string storeUID = oPAStore.BinaryToString(
oPAStore.GetProperty(PR_EMSMDB_SECTION_UID));
foreach (Outlook.AddressList addrList
in Application.Session.AddressLists)
Outlook.PropertyAccessor oPAAddrList =
addrList.PropertyAccessor;
string addrListUID = oPAAddrList.BinaryToString(
oPAAddrList.GetProperty(PR_EMSMDB_SECTION_UID));
// Return addrList if match on storeUID
// and type is olExchangeGlobalAddressList.
if (addrListUID == storeUID && addrList.AddressListType ==
Outlook.OlAddressListType.olExchangeGlobalAddressList)
return addrList;
return null;
Setting the InitialAddressList property is the programmatic equivalent to selecting an AddressList from the drop-down list for Address Book in
the Select Names dialog box.
In its default state, InitialAddressList is the AddressList that has the property AddressList.IsInitialAddressList set
to True. IsInitialAddressList corresponds to setting Show this address list first in the Addressing dialog
box, which is available by clicking Tools, and then Options in the Address
Book dialog box.
See How to: Get the Global Address List or a Set of Address Lists for a Store for more information.

Setting Exchange as default address book

I use only Exchange to store my email, contacts, and calendar data. Unfortunately, Address Book insists on also having it's "On My Mac" folder/account, which I can't seem to delete. I wouldn't care except that whenever I create a new contact (or "Add to Address Book" from within Mail), it automatically creates the contact within On My Mac, and not within my Exchange account where I keep all my contacts. It's a bit annoying having to go in and manually move the contact from On My Computer to my Exchange account.
Is there any way to set a "default" account within Address Book such that I can have it automatically use the Exchange one?
Dan

Problem solved:
Open Address Book
Hit Cmd+; or click Address Book \ Preferences
Click Accounts on the toolbar
Under the "On My Mac" account, change the setting for "Default account for new contacts".
That's it! So glad this setting is in here. A bit hard to find (I just stumbled upon it a few moments ago), but at least it's there.

How do I change the default address book from the Personal Address Book?

Whenever I click on an email address from within an email and ask to add it to my address book, the contact is added to Personal Address Book. How do I change that so that new addresses will be added to another book?

I do not know of a way to change the default but after you click the star beside the address to add it to the address book, click the star a second time to open the edit dialog box. There is a drop down list of your address books to make the change there.

How do i delete the two default address books?

I only need one address book and I want it named : Address Book

I do not believe you can delete the default books. i would open the imported personal book, select one contact, do a control+a to select all and drag them to the default personal book. Then delete the empty book. Then do the same for the collected books.

Create a Contact on an address book other than the default one

Hello everyone,
I am using a professional address book and calendar on exchange provided by my company. I am also using my iCloud account to manage my personal address book and calendar. I have set up my iphone 4S to display both address book and calendar, this works well, same for the sync mechanism.
When I create an event on my iPhone using the standard calendar app, I can simply indicate whether it is a personal or professional event.
When I create a contact using the standard contact app, there is no way to indicate wheter it's personnal or professional. The contact is created on the default address book that I setup in the settings. The only way I found is to hide all categories except the personal one and then create the contact. It is then created not on the default address book but on the only one displayed. It is rather awkward and that does not solve all problems : I have some contacts already created by mistake on my professional address book that I want to move to the personnal one. I found absolutely no way of doing that. The same thing for calendar events is straightforward: open the event for modification, simple toogle the appropriate field from Pro to Personal and you're done.
Does anyone have a hint for this ?
Thanks,
Cyril

Hi sumella, <br>
I think you should try an Add-on like one of these:
<br>
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/ Tab Mix Plus]
<br>
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-button-on-tab-bar/ New Tab Button on tab bar]

How can I recover my accidentaly deleted address book?

I was working in my address book this morning and selected a contact that I wanted to delete. When I pressed the delete button, all of a sudden my entire address book dissapeared. I'm fairly sure I only selected the specific contact, but apparently somehow my entire address book got deleted with it.
I can still see the two default address books of thunderbird on the left side, but they always have been and still are empty. The third address book (the one that I've been using the past years), is completely gone.
I have tried to recover the address book in multiple ways:
- looked in the recycle bin of my computer and of thunderbird, but there was nothing to be found in both of them
- I used the 'undo' button about 4 to 5 times, but nothing happened unfortunately. Ctrl+z didn't give any response as well
- I waited with closing thunderbird, untiI I looked up my Thunderbird profile in user/appdata/roaming/thunderbird/profiles/****.defaul. I copied the abook.mab file to another directory, closed thunderbird and restarted it. Unfortunately this didn't help either.
- I've also tried to recover any deleted files on my entire computer using Recuva software. I haven't been able to find anything related to the address book thought.
Is there any way to retrieve/recover my thunderbird address book?
I haven't been able to find a good solution online as of yet. But I figure it can't just be completely gone after I've clicked teh delete button by accident, right?
I'm using thunderbird 24.4.0 on Windows 8.1. Currently I am not using a tool to synchronise the address book to my google account, because I'm working with the maillinglist and I haven't found a way to synchronise them fully. So there's no recent backup of the address book unfortunately.
I really hope you can help me with this. Thanks in advance!

Thanks a lot for your fast reply!
I've tried both options you gave, but unfortunately didn't manage to restore/retrieve any data from the file. The MoreFunctionsForAddressBook add on is very user friendly however and easy to work with.
I also found a few threads that explain that it is possibe to open the original abook.mab file in a text editor and delete some entries in it, to 'turn back' the command that said to delete the addressbook in the first place.
This is the one I've found and tried to follow: http://www.pirules.org/blog/?page_id=312 and
I've played around with it a bit, and managed to retrieve the specific address I was meaning to delete at the time the whole addressbook got accidentaly deleted. I didn't manage to retrieve the full addressbook though, mostly because I have a hard time understanding the code language that is used in the file....
Could this be an option for me? And if so, how do I determine which entry to delete from the file and which one to leave alone?

When renaming an address book through properties, I can no longer see the new address book in my list. Where did it go?

I have about 30 different address books. Some of them where old but i didn't want to delete them. I no longer wanted them at the top of my list so I went to properties and added "z-" to the folder name to have them at the bottom of the list. Now I can't see the address books that I renamed. What happened to them and how do I get them back?

Make hidden files and folders visible:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
'''First locate all address book filenames in thunderbird.'''
* In Thunderbird:
* Help > Troubleshooting Information
* click on 'show folder' button
a new window opens.
If you were going to alter anything you would need to close Thunderbird, but on this occasion you are just looking for information.
* organise the list by 'Type'
* look for all files that have MAB File type
each file will have a .mab extension and these are the address books.
Two address books are default address books called:
abook.mab = Personal Address Book
history.mab = Collected Addresses.
Other addressbooks maybe called eg: abook-1.mab
* Make a list of all the address book.mab filenames. Careful.. as spelling is important.
'''Now to check what filename = what desciption in config editor'''
* In thunderbird:
* Tools > Options > Advanced > General tab
* click on 'config Editor' button
it will tell you to be careful :)
now to locate info for each address book.
'''How to search for each address book using info gained from checking the Profile folder.'''
In top search type: abook.mab
you should see this line:
ldap_2.servers.pab.filename; abook.mab
notice the 'pab' in ldap_2.servers.'''pab'''.filename
In top search type: pab
you will now be able to locate:
* ldap_2.servers.pab.description; Value = Personal Address Book
* ldap_2.servers.pab.dirType; Value = 2
* ldap_2.servers.pab.filename; Value = abook.mab
* ldap_2.servers.pab.position; Value = 2
Using the above method will identify which .mab file in profile uses what info in config Editor.
'''You can do this same method to check to see if the 'Z addressbook name' is in the list and which .mab file is assigned to that description.'''
In top search type the name you assigned: Z addressbook name
it should return a line:
* ldap_2.servers.XXXX.description; Value = Z addressbook name
make a note of the XXXX part in description
In top search type: XXXX - whatever the actual description XXXX said to get the 'description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position'
'''Please report back on results.'''
Did you locate:
eg: ldap_2.servers.XXXX.description; Value = Z addressbook name
or was this still listed as old name without the Z part?
Did you locate all of these 'description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position' for each of the missing address books?
or were only some of these shown? Tell us what you found.
Did you find that there were .mab files in Profile folder but they were missing in Config Editor or in Config Editor but not in Profile folder?
Please state what was found. You can copy paste from the config editor.

Cannot access address book after software update

I am unable to access the default address book after doing the software update - I restored my backup and everything is there except for my contacts. When I open my address book it is labeled personal and there are no addresses and when I add a contact it does not show up, but I noticed when I go into options it shows only default under address books with 99 entries and when I try to add a contact it does not show in the list on my phone but the number of entries in the default book goes up so they are going into that one but I cannot access it? Any idea how I can get my contact list back? (hope this makes sense to someone )
Thank you
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Sdgardne, thank you so much! Using your post and links I was able to restore my address book after upgrading my software and having trouble with my address book. And I am very technologically challenged so I appreciate having something I could understand and follow.

No contacts in address book, can not find address book anymore

I was trying to switch default email accounts, Hughes.net was the default and Yahoo the secondary and I wanted to swap these around as I am no longer using Hughes net.
In doing so I lost all email folders and address books. I have rebuilt the folders but now I see that I have no address book in either accounts.
Are they gone for good?
Thanks.
Jeff

There are two default address books in Thunderbird. Both of these address books can be copy pasted between mail accounts.
''Personal Address Book'' is called '''abook.mab'''
''Collected Addresses '' is called '''history.mab'''
These are stored in your Profile folder in the mail account name. But it would need your old mail account to be intact in order to copy anything from it to another mail account.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
* C:\Users\Windows user name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\Profile name\ mail account name
The AppData folder is folder is a hidden folder; to show hidden folders, open a Windows Explorer window and choose "Organize → Folder and Search Options → Folder Options → View (tab) → Show hidden files and folders".
If your original mail account is still there: Profiles\Mail\mail account name
You could simply recover it. Info here:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_deleted_mail_accounts
Remember, when performing any changes in Profiles folder, Thunderbird must be closed first.

How to delete empty imported address books?

I found similar issues but the solutions offered do not seem to work for me. I have now got 4 copies of implab.mab in my profile folder (suffixes -1, -2, -3). I've tried deleting the extra 3 with explorer but they reappear. I've tried renaming them as suggested elsewhere but then the renamed and original both appear. Deleting them from the address book pane in the Write option has no effect.
Any suggestions? Thanks

Confirm these are address books you have deleted from the 'Address Book', so they no longer display in 'Address Book'.
I'm not talking about empty address books which are still displaying - they must have been deleted.
In 'Address Book'
select the address book
Edit > Delete address book
note you cannot delete any default address books :
'Personal Address Book' and 'Collected Addresses'.
You cannot delete/remove old deleted address book entries via 'Config Editor'.
You can access the 'prefs.js' file located in your Profile folders and open that file using 'Notepad', then edit the file and save and close.
However, you must have exited/closed Thunderbird first in order to do this, otherwise editing the file will have no effect.
I would also advise you create a copy of the prefs.js file before you make any changes and save to desktop to act as a backup - just in case of error.
In your 'prefs.js' file
Each live- not deleted address book shown in the 'Address Book' will have:
'Description', 'dirType', 'filename' and 'position'
eg:
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.testimpab.description", "Test Impab");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.testimpab.dirType", 2);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.testimpab.filename", "abook-1.mab");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.testimpab.position", 1);
Any address book you imported/created and subsequently deleted from the 'Address Book' will only leave the 'position' line in prefs.js.
There will be no other lines associated with that address book.
eg:
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.TEST_1.position", 6);
This is the line you can delete - make sure TB is closed first.
Note: Do not delete anything that says 'pab' or 'history' - these are the default address books.
After editing the 'pref.js file, save the file and then close it.
Then restart Thunderbird.

How can I copy the Thunderbird Address Book from Windows to Ubuntu?

I use Windows 8.1 on one Pc and Ubuntu 14.04 on the other.
Thanks in advance for your help
Best regards,
Ep

I think the best way is to export the required address books to LDIF files on the first machine and import those LDIF files on the second machine.
Alternatively you can copy the the data *.mab files from one machine to the other. The two default address books are represented by abook.mab and history.mab and can be simply copied. Other user-defined address books will be named as abook1.mab etc and will need to be imported. I'd suggest MoreColumnsForAddressBook for this task.

Look of the address book in lion?

Is there a way to change the look of the address book in lion? I can not stand the fact that I updated becouse my old computer died, and now I have to try to like Lion. Who whats a leather address book? If I want that I will go back to PC. I looked up all the settings I thought It could be, and can not seem to find any settings for it.

There's no setting in Lion to change this look.
If you are willing to hack around a bit, you could try one of these:
http://www.cultofmac.com/106760/how-to-give-address-book-a-clean-and-simple-look -in-lion/
http://www.simplehelp.net/2011/07/24/how-to-change-the-default-address-book-leat her-skin-in-os-x-lion/
I have no idea how well they work.
charlie

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