535939 - Address Book only shows entries in Personal Address Book even when there are other User-Created Address Books.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 532505

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

After uninstalling Thunderbird 2.x and installing Thunderbird 3, The address book is only showing entries that are located in the Personal Address Book.  If I select another address book, it still shows the content that was in the Personal Address Book and does not load the information from the other address book collections that I have.  Upon exporting the other address book entries to a LDIF file, and examining it, I can clearly see that the entries still exist.  For some reason, they are just not being loaded.  I even tried to delete the other address book entries and import them, but it still didn't make the entries inside of them show up when they were selected.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Shown the entries from the selected address book.

Comment 1

[Scott]

UPDATE:

I just found the cause of the problem.  If the "Quick Search" is removed from the toolbar, it causes the issue to occur the next time Thunderbird is loaded.  Once you load Thunderbird and go into the Address Book, it will no longer show addresses from User-Created Address Books.  However, if you go into the "Customize Toolbar" area and drag back the "Quick Search" to the button bar, close and reload Thunderbird, the addresses are visible inside User-Created Address Books again.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks.  this is bug 532505