400701 - Adding to a Second address book "under" Personal Address Book often does not work.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Jim Bennett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

If I open the secondary address book (SAB), and use Any method of adding, the new card gets added to the main Personal Address Book (PAB). Attempts to drag&drop from the PAB to SAB fail with one exception: add the new card to the PAB, close THunderBird, restart it, then open the PAB and click-on-and-drag the card to the SAB. This last way works. BUT Every other way fails to add a new card to the SAB. I tried a Lot of ways, using various menu means to open the add card facility. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to add a new card to an address book that is "under" the Personal Address Book.
2. Then, since it is added to the PAB, try to copy or move it to the SAB. 
3.
Actual Results:  
In all cases the new card is added to the PAB. In some cases you'll get two cards there.

Expected Results:  
I expected to be able to add to a secondary address book directly.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Did you create the SAB via File -> New Address Book or by clicking on "New Mail List"? The two are very different.

Have you specified email addresses in your cards you are attempting to add? For a mailing list you must do this.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Did you create the SAB via File -> New Address Book or by clicking on "New Mail
> List"? The two are very different.
> 
> Have you specified email addresses in your cards you are attempting to add? For
> a mailing list you must do this.
> 
The reporter never followed up on my comment 1, therefore resolving as incomplete.

Reporter, if you are still having problems, please feel free to re-open, adding answers to the questions I asked.