Using TB v. 3.16.
Is there any way to remove the "Collected Address" and Personal Address" entries completely and just have the Address Book?
R\C the entry just shows Delete as grayed out.
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Re: TB Address Book
That's tough one, Bob. I ONLY have ALL my addresses in the Personal address book and I LONG AGO stopped TB from "automatically" saving any addresses. Now that I'm in version 3.x I'm not sure what I did to accomplish that. If you HIGHLIGHT all the addresses in a book, won't it then let you delete them?viking33 wrote:Using TB v. 3.16.
Is there any way to remove the "Collected Address" and Personal Address" entries completely and just have the Address Book?
R\C the entry just shows Delete as grayed out.
The only screen I can see now in 3.x that doesn't help my memory is this one. As I said, ALL my addresses are in Personal.
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Re: TB Address Book
You might not be supposed to do this but:viking33 wrote:Using TB v. 3.16.
Is there any way to remove the "Collected Address" and Personal Address" entries completely and just have the Address Book?
R\C the entry just shows Delete as grayed out.
Untick the collected address thig (or redirect it) as Al suggested, then:
WITH THUNDERBIRD CLOSED!
In your profile folder, create a file called user.js (there may be one there already, if so just edit that). Edit it in notepad and add the following lines:
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user_pref("ldap_2.servers.pab.position", 0);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.history.position", 0);
As always, it's best to back up your profile first and remember that YMMV.
John
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Re: TB Address Book
If Jon's suggestion of editing a .js file offline sounds a bit scary you can probably achieve the same effect by using the config editor in TB.
Click Tools | Options
Select 'Advanced'
Select the 'General' tab
Click on the 'Config Editor' button
Edit/add the lines suggested by Jon NB all his health warnings still apply so go carefully.
Ken
Click Tools | Options
Select 'Advanced'
Select the 'General' tab
Click on the 'Config Editor' button
Edit/add the lines suggested by Jon NB all his health warnings still apply so go carefully.
Ken
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Re: TB Address Book
Scary! This is eileen's lounge, nothing scares us!stuck wrote:If Jon's suggestion of editing a .js file offline sounds a bit scary you can probably achieve the same effect by using the config editor in TB.
Ken's right, that is the way to do it (I've used TB since 0.1...) but I'll just add that the lines should be there already and are of the formstuck wrote: Click Tools | Options
Select 'Advanced'
Select the 'General' tab
Click on the 'Config Editor' button
Edit/add the lines suggested by Jon NB all his health warnings still apply so go carefully.
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ldap_2.servers.history.position default integer 2
After I'd slept on it, I realised that I hadn't said that this doesn't delete the address books, just stops them showing up in the GUI. If collected addresses are still enabled and pointed at one of the books, then I suppose it will still fill with addresses.
Oh, and I haven't looked to see if you can search these hidden address books for contacts.
John
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Re: TB Address Book
John & Ken,
I've been meaning to get back on this subject but......?
I did edit the TB config as suggested and it DID remove the two other locations and left just the address book intact.
Thanks!
You did mention that the collected addresses might still be "collecting"
addresses. Is there a way to check if that is indeed the case? And if so, can they be deleted occasionally? ( or automatically? )
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After I'd slept on it, I realised that I hadn't said that this doesn't delete the address books, just stops them showing up in the GUI. If collected addresses are still enabled and pointed at one of the books, then I suppose it will still fill with addresses.
Oh, and I haven't looked to see if you can search these hidden address books for contacts.
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I've been meaning to get back on this subject but......?
I did edit the TB config as suggested and it DID remove the two other locations and left just the address book intact.
Thanks!
You did mention that the collected addresses might still be "collecting"
addresses. Is there a way to check if that is indeed the case? And if so, can they be deleted occasionally? ( or automatically? )
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Partial quote:
After I'd slept on it, I realised that I hadn't said that this doesn't delete the address books, just stops them showing up in the GUI. If collected addresses are still enabled and pointed at one of the books, then I suppose it will still fill with addresses.
Oh, and I haven't looked to see if you can search these hidden address books for contacts.
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BOB
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Re: TB Address Book
I suppose from time to time, you could put the entries back the way they were, so that the address books show, then delete everything in them (if there is anything)viking33 wrote: You did mention that the collected addresses might still be "collecting"
addresses. Is there a way to check if that is indeed the case? And if so, can they be deleted occasionally? ( or automatically? )
If you're feeling very brave, you could close Thunderbird, hop over to your profile folder and delete the files with a .mab extension. On my setup, abook.mab is my actual addressbook, and there are two other .mab files. In my case, these other two files came back when I restarted TB, but were empty. I don't mind my addresses being collected, so I restored them from my profile copy that I made before I started this process.
Summary:
- Close Thunderbird
- Back up profile
- Identify the .mab files that you don't want
- kill the wee burghers
John
“Always trust a microbiologist because they have the best chance of predicting when the world will end”
― Teddie O. Rahube
“Always trust a microbiologist because they have the best chance of predicting when the world will end”
― Teddie O. Rahube