Addressbook entries no longer copy to other addressbooks

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Addressbook entries no longer copy to other addressbooks

Postby lindenhills » Thu 26 Jul, 2007 10:06 pm

In earlier versions of Thunderbird, any entry in any addressbook could be "copied" to another addressbook by a simple drag-and-drop. The original entry stayed in its original addressbook.

Now, drop-and-drag takes the original entry out of its original addressbook! Yikes!

What happened to this invaluable function of the Thunderbird addressbooks?

Any help most welcome! =^..^=
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Postby captjlddavis » Sat 28 Jul, 2007 10:35 pm

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070604 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 ID:2007060411

When you Drag & Drop with left Mouse button, HOLD the the CONTROL key when you release the Mouse button.......

and it will COPY the entry -
I don't know about TB 2.0.0.5 - haven't tried it...

HTH

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Postby lindenhills » Sat 28 Jul, 2007 11:18 pm

B'gaw, it worked!!! You're a genius!!! :D

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