When I press the contacts button it gives me the following error message
Unable to open address book
This address book cannot be opened.
I'm using LibreOffice (3.5) and Thunderbird (17.0) on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine and store my contacts with Thunderbird. These contacts are organized in several address books. For each I get a .mab-file in /home/user/.thunderbird/xyxyxyxy.default/.
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 (amd64) and have installed Contacts Sync in Ubuntu One (including thunderbird-couchdb).
Once I launched Thunderbird and opened the address book manager, I noticed that Ubuntu One address book is missing. I searched on Google for a while, but everything I tried seems not to work for me.
This has been driving me absolutely nuts. I'm about to throw something but I won't because it's all too expensive I'm trying to import my old Thunderbird address books into Evolution 2.28.3. I've exported them as .ldif files. When imported into Evo, certain fields go missing. These include First Name and Street Address details. Kind of important, huh?
I run Ubuntu 11.10 with Thunderbird as main address book; I also have the thunderbird-couchdb package installed.
I know the U1 Contacts service status has not been working lately:
Contacts
2011-11-29 Syncing of contacts is not working for some users due to server issues.
I have Thunderbird version 17 with Ubuntu(latest vesion)
When I write a new e-mail I want to click on the "To" to bring up my address book so I can select recipients. (Like in Evolution)
How can I add this feature? I looked up all the "add-ons" but could not see anything appropriate.
Chris
This is getting painful. Some time before upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 12.04 my address books stopped working. I ended up deleting the abook.mab and history.mab files to get it working again.
Now it's happened again. The address books are there (the abook.mab and history.mab files) but Address Book shows them as empty and won't let me add to to them, let alone collect the addresses.
Recently I moved away from Ubuntu, upstream into Debian and clean Gnome 3.
Kept the whole home folder and copied it to my new distribution, piece by piece.
My surprise: when I open Thunderbird, all my contacts are gone.
I added my Gmail address book to evolution, but it gives my an error every time, even when choosing "use secure connection" in the address book options. The error is (I translated it on my own):
unable to open address book. This is because you entered a wrong URI or the server is unavailable at the moment.
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