Re: Importing external abook.mab

2015-10-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/15/2015 09:53 AM, jd1008 wrote: > Because I did not know that TB would look into all of them when searching for > a recipient name as I am typing that name. FWIW, you could have discovered that by going to the Address Book and then selecting "Preferences" under "Edit". And/Or, trying it y

Re: Importing external abook.mab

2015-10-14 Thread jd1008
On 10/14/2015 07:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/15/2015 09:31 AM, jd1008 wrote: If TB will look into all .mab files for locating a recipient, then do I really need to put all contacts into one .mab file? Your choice. It sounded as if you weren't happy with having *many* mab files. Because

Re: Importing external abook.mab

2015-10-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/15/2015 09:31 AM, jd1008 wrote: > If TB will look into all .mab files for locating a recipient, then do I > really need to put all contacts into one .mab file? Your choice. It sounded as if you weren't happy with having *many* mab files. -- In reality, some people should stick to runnin

Re: Importing external abook.mab

2015-10-14 Thread jd1008
On 10/14/2015 07:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/15/2015 09:14 AM, jd1008 wrote: On 10/14/2015 06:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/15/2015 08:00 AM, jd1008 wrote: It seems that TB cannot import adbook.mab directly. One must first export it as one of the various text type files or vcard format.

Re: Importing external abook.mab

2015-10-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/15/2015 09:14 AM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 10/14/2015 06:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 10/15/2015 08:00 AM, jd1008 wrote: >>> It seems that TB cannot import adbook.mab directly. >>> One must first export it as one of the various text type files or vcard >>> format. >>> >>> This is strange, in

Re: Importing external abook.mab

2015-10-14 Thread jd1008
On 10/14/2015 06:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/15/2015 08:00 AM, jd1008 wrote: It seems that TB cannot import adbook.mab directly. One must first export it as one of the various text type files or vcard format. This is strange, in the sense that TB cannot decode it's own created file format

Re: Importing external abook.mab

2015-10-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/15/2015 08:00 AM, jd1008 wrote: > It seems that TB cannot import adbook.mab directly. > One must first export it as one of the various text type files or vcard > format. > > This is strange, in the sense that TB cannot decode it's own created file > format > and import it without burdening

Importing external abook.mab

2015-10-14 Thread jd1008
It seems that TB cannot import adbook.mab directly. One must first export it as one of the various text type files or vcard format. This is strange, in the sense that TB cannot decode it's own created file format and import it without burdening the user to do the exporting - especially since