267629 - TB 0.9 fails to properly import OE address folders (silently ignored) or groups / lists of addresses (group appears but has no addresses in it)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 222774

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Chris Samuel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103)

Migrating my wife from Outlook Express to Thunderbird 0.9 on Windows XP.

Her address book is organised in folders to group addresses of various types
together, and wants this arrangement to get carried over to Thunderbird.

From reading on the net not even OE can manage this when moving an address book
from one machine to another, the fix suggested there is to put every address
from a folder into a "group" (basically an email list) and these apparently
translate well from OE to OE.

However, when Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103) imports the OE address book the
group names are imported OK, but they are all blank, none contain any addresses.

All the addresses import OK from what we can tell, but in one great flat lump
with no organisation. :-(

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create address book as described above
2. Import that into Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103) (and 0.8)
3. See the address book with empty groups in it.
Actual Results:  
Addresses import OK but there the address groups are empty.

Expected Results:  
The groups should have been populated with addresses.

Web page with details about problems transferring OE address book from a Windows
machine to another Windows machine (and the source of the idea of using address
groups to solve the fact that folders don't translate).

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,162958,00.asp

Comment 1

[Stephen Schaub]

This appears to be a duplicate of #222774

Comment 2

[Chris Samuel]

It is a duplicate, I'd spent an hour or more going through Thunderbird bug
reports trying to find something that looked like that with no success before
submitting it, don't know how I missed it.

Sorry!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 222774 ***