I’m using Thunderbird Portable 3.1.7. (Thunderbird and all data resides on my external USB drive. The prefs.js file is located at …\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\data\profile\prefs.js.)

Two notes from my own experience.
1) Always a good reminder to back up your prefs.js file before you go to work on it.
2) The reason for comment number (1) is that the first time I added the 3 lines of preferences in prefs.js I did so by inserting lines in the section where there were other ldap_2 entries. After saving and restarting Thunderbird, it came up blank … no email accounts, no contacts…nothing. When I went back to the prefs.js file, there were no entries after the point at which I had inserted them (basically all entries that came later in the alphabet). So it was good that I had a backup. Restoring the backup prefs.js file returned everything to as it was before.

BTW I also tried just adding the entries in Mr. Zero’s post at the end of the prefs.js file, but these were completely ignored (i.e. no OE contact account created) AND when I went back to look at the prefs.js file again, the OE entries had disappeared.

So presently, it would appear to me that this fix does NOT work for ThunderbirdPortable 3.1.7. I have a funny feeling its because Outlook Express is not on my USB drive.

Thanks for your post. I’m having trouble getting search to work. How do we set this up for the contacts to come from OE but use Outlook contacts? In other words, how do we do “registry patch useOutlook = 1″.

Cheers,

Ian

Search of OE contacts in Thunderbird adressbook *does* work, if these Contacts actually come from OE (WAB) using *outlook* contacts (registry patch useOutlook=1).
Funny.

Still, same bad performance for search in TB.
Tips from http://kb.mozillazine.org/Long.....dress_book do not seem to help, though my Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 – indeed is creating these false entries.

Once done open the Thunderbird Address Book and you’ll find an OE Contacts address book. I then simply moved all my Personal Address Book contacts into the new OE Contacts (or whatever you decided to rename it) address book and now maintain them there. All Thunderbird contact fields are supported and contact entries can easily be added, edited and deleted from within the Thunderbird Address Book. Now you can set iTunes to sync with the Windows Address Book and your iPhone and Thunderbird contacts will forever on be in sync.

I did manage to set it up, however I see the following problems
1. zindus does not sync the new OE Contacts address book with my Gmail account
2. Although I can see the address in the OE address book, I cannot search for any contact.

I would appreciate if Mr Zero could further clarify. I also saw this page which explains how to sync Tbird with OE
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Usin.....zilla_Mail

You can have Zindus sync with Google automatically on a regular basis, or manually sync by selecting Tools>Zindus>Sync Now in Thunderbird.

(if you want to replace iPhone contacts entirely with your Thunderbird contacts on the first sync, in iTunes go to Edit>Preferences> and find the tab with the option to reset Sync history. Then click on the iPhone device in iTunes, and under “Info” select the “Replace information on this iPhone” “Contacts” tab.)

Eigentlich.Eigentlich weiß ich ja nicht, wieso ich mich immer mit so Dingen beschäftige. Eigentlich habe ich kein I-Phone. Eigentlich hab ich noch keine Notwendigkeit gesehen, Kontakte und Kalendereinträge zwischen einem Computer und einem Mobilte…