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Thunderbird and Outlook Contact Sync

chirico — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:54:26 -0800

How can I sync my work Outlook contacts to Thunderbird? I've been looking everywhere and can't figure this out. I know I can export the address book, but I'd rather sync it, so that my Global Address List is synced with Thunderbird? I'm at a loss. Thanks!

Heard of a Global User Spell Check Dictionary?

Viscouse — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:24:40 -0800

Is there any program/script that can control all User Dictionaries on a machine? You know, when you're typing MetaFilter, and FF tells you it's spelled wrong. You can right-click, and "Add to Dictionary". No sweat. But what about all the other programs I have (Evernote, Thunderbird, Lotus Notes, Excel, Word, etc, etc, etc.). I'm looking for the One User Dictionary To Rule Them All. There is no standard on the user dictionary file format. Which is stupid because it’s simply a list of words. Why not make a single, standard program that syncs all your user dictionaries. All it has to do is scan computer for programs & versions, get the dictionaries (automatically or user-located) and pull them. Combine all the words into 1 list, and then parse it back out into the correct formats. Advanced features could have automatic monitoring, or plugins that have oddball formats. Personally, I have 6 browsers, 2 email programs, Office, Sametime, Evernote, and a couple other programs that all have their own user dictionaries. They’re all on different machines, but with Dropbox support, that issue could go away. Were I a respectable coder I would do it myself. If somehow I’ve neglected to find something like this whilst searching for this solution, PLEASE let me know!

How to make Thunderbird + Blackberry = Thunderberry?

fox_terrier_guy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:55:16 -0800

How do I get my Blackberry 8203 contact list on to Thunderbird? Through a miscue (read I'm an idiot), I inadvertently created duplicate contacts in Thunderbird. How? Don't know. Then I deleted the duplicates using a Thunderbird extension, but (and this is where the idiot part comes in) I deleted the wrong ones.

Now I have lots of names but no phone numbers on my TB
I have lots of names + phones numbers on my BB.

So, how do I make BB + TB = 1?

I do have the BB desktop manager program, but it doesn't seem to allow for this er, unique situation.

Any assistance would be gratefully read and diligently followed if it seems physically appropriate.

How can I sync Yahoo and Outlook (and/or Yahoo and Thunderbird)?

SampleSize — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:52:40 -0800

How can I sync Yahoo and Outlook (and/or Yahoo and Thunderbird)? I've been using the free Intellisync for Yahoo for years to sync Yahoo contacts and calendar with Outlook on my PC, but it has stopped working and there hasn't been a new version since forever. Googling for another product to achieve the same result has gotten me nowhere. Any suggestions?

Once I sync one last time, I plan on switching to Thunderbird. It would be great if, going forward, I could sync Yahoo with Thunderbird, so any suggestions for that would be appreciated too. If necessary, however, I'll just stop using my desktop calendar and contacts and go exclusively Yahoo.

Help my wrangle all my address books into one!

fenriq — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:57:26 -0800

Synching various address books? I've got several address book systems on my computer and its a drag to go from one to the other to the other trying to find the most up to date and complete contact information. Is there a fairly straight forward way of synching them into one location?

I've got Palm, yahoo exports, Mac's internal address book and Thunderbird's address book in addition to several contact lists contained in Excel format.

I've tried doing it by hand and its an exercise in frustration. Any help in automating the process would be great.