Do you know where this 'Program1' is located on your computer? If so close Thunderbird, open Windows Explorer, drill down to the offending folder. right click on it, click rename in the drop down menu and rename it Program. See if that fixes your problem. Any help?

I finally phrased my question so that Google found a similar query and solution (from 2006) that still worked 8 years later! In case this might help another user, here are the step from the Moderator at MozillaZine. âÂÂClick on the imported address book name in the left hand pane. Now click on any name in the right hand pane and then use menu path Edit->Select All, or press Ctrl-A. Now drag and drop the data from the imported address book to the Personal Address Book. Once you have confirmed that everything has copied over properly you can delete the imported address book.â I would add that this didn't work smoothly until I deleted special lists/groups. Once they were removed, the whole address book previously under the âÂÂThunderbird Addressesâ name quickly and correctly transferred to âÂÂPersonal Address BookâÂÂ. I'm a happy camper.

Thanks zep516 for the link. That is the information that I needed. Ravencajun.. I do know about the bbc but when I typed in Westcoasters and included myself I saw all the addy's when the email came to me and I really prefer not to send other addy's on to everyone on the list. I do thank you both for your quick responses. Iris

Post this on the computer forum, they are really quick to get you answers. They help me often with my computer woes.