297947 - By accident deleted contact is not repairable. No undo, no trashcan

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240520

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Anco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2

I opened adresbook. Any contact was 'selected','highlighted' than I wanted to
delete a column 'screenname' which I don't find interresting, so rightclick on
the column and pushed deleted. BIG ERROR this didn't delete the column but the
still highlighted contact. Even worse the undo button is not available for this
situation and more worse the deleted contact has not gone into the trashcan of
thunderbird. I searched around, but this contact with all telephone and adress
information has really dissapeared. Far from userfriendly that this can happen
and no undo is available. Outlook does much better in this kind of case. Well
since one year I don't use outlook anymore for email. Thunderbird is very good
for email, but I still use outlook for adressbook. I try to switch over
completely to thunderbird, but the adressbook is still not sophisticated and
userfriendly enough. Everyone his/her opinion ;-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select any contact
2. rightclick for example on the collumn names (so you don't expect this
rightclick being related to the selected contact) and click on the delete.
3. Goto menu 'edit' and see that the undo button is not available. Yes you
really deleted accidently you valuable contact information. grrr

Actual Results:  
I'm not able to get back the contact information. Luckily I'm still doing all
contact changes in outlook adress book and so now and than I do an import
adresses to renew the adresses in Thunderbird adressbook....

Expected Results:  
The contact information should have gone into the 'recycle bin' like it works in
outlook. Even the undo button should always give the possibility to redo at
least my last stupid click anywhere

Please make the adressbook better. I know other people who still don't really
like to use thunderbird just because the adressbook is a weak part of
thunderbird. Personally I love to do my email with thunderbird already for a
year and the only reason why outlook still is on my computer is because of its
adressbook.

I choose severity Critical for this bug, because it causes me simply loosing
valuable data

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 240520?

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240520 ***

Comment 4

[chrizilla]

@Anco (reporter): thanks for your report.
I feel you. I also wanted to completely switch from Outlook to Thunderbird long ago, but had to keep Outlook just for the address book (exactly as you describe). Luckily things have changed a little in the meanwhile and TB's address book has improved somewhat. Still a long way to go ...

(In reply to Anco from comment #0)

Expected Results:

• The contact information should have gone into the 'recycle bin' like it works in outlook. [This is bug 240520]
• the undo button should always give the possibility to redo at least my last stupid click anywhere. [This is bug 94407]

Your requests are duplicates. I added the bug numbers in brackets in your quote above.

Reestablishing this as duplicate of bug 240520 (as originally marked above).