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Re: Thunderbird Gmail contacts autocomplete

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Paul used his or her keyboard to write :

> Have you done all the rubbish in here ?
> https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-export-your-gmail-contacts-1171992

I read that web page and followed the instructions
First I logged into Google using a web browser 
Then I went to the link https://contacts.google.com/
I pressed the "apps" menu (9 dots in a square)
I clicked on "Contacts" in the resulting menu
At the left I clicked on "Export"
Up came an "Export contacts" form

The choices were "Selected contacts" or all "Contacts" and the export
choices were "Google CSV", "Outlook CSV", or "vCard (for iOS Contacts)."

Who even knew there's such a thing as each of those? ;-->
Google CSV -> default character encoding
Outlook CSV -> Unicode character encoding

In the latest Thunderbird (78.10.0) I couldn't find the import button.
Looking it up I found this
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1148490 
which refers to this
https://www.lifewire.com/import-gmail-contacts-to-thunderbird-1173152
Both of which recommend "Outlook CSV" format (for whatever reason)
and both of which are dated as the Thunderbird menus aren't the same.

In Thunderbird I pressed "Tools -> Import" and switched the default from
"Import Everything" to "Address Books" and then I selected the "vCard file
(.vcf)" selection instead of the "Text file (LDIF, .tab, .csv, .txt)"
selection suggested in the articles and then browsed to the vcf file
"Exported GMail Address Book.vcf"

In Thunderbird that created a third separate address book of the same name
as the file exported from Google GMail web browser.
 Personal Address Book
 Exported GMail Address Book
 Collected Addresses

Now the autocomplete works!
Thanks to all who helped out!

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Thunderbird Gmail contacts autocomplete FromTheRafters <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> - 2021-04-27 08:00 -0500
  Re: Thunderbird Gmail contacts autocomplete Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> - 2021-04-27 10:32 -0300
  Re: Thunderbird Gmail contacts autocomplete Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2021-04-27 10:44 -0400
    Re: Thunderbird Gmail contacts autocomplete FromTheRafters <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> - 2021-04-28 19:34 -0500
  Re: Thunderbird Gmail contacts autocomplete Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-04-27 16:04 +0100

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