nextcloud-documentation/user_manual/pim/sync_thunderbird.rst
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Synchronizing with Thunderbird
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Contacts
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As someone who is new to Nextcloud and new to CardBook here is what you need in excruciating pithy detail to make this work:
- `Thunderbird <https://www.thunderbird.net/>`_ for your OS unless it comes with your OS distribution (Linux)
- `CardBook <https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/cardbook/>`_ (a Thunderbird contacts add-on.)
Using the CardBook add-on (Contacts only)
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`CardBook <https://addons.thunderbird.net/de/thunderbird/addon/cardbook/>`_ is an advanced alternative to Thunderbird's address book, which supports CardDAV. You can have TBSync and CardBook installed in parallel.
1. Click the Cardbook icon in the upper right corner of Thunderbird:
.. image:: ../images/cardbook_icon.png
2. In Cardbook:
- "Adressbook > New Adressbook **Remote** > Next
- Select **CardDAV**, fill in the address of your Nextcloud server, your user name and password
.. image:: ../images/new_addressbook.png
4. Click on "Validate", click Next, then choose the name of the addressbook and click Next again.
.. image:: ../images/addressbook_name.png
5. When you are finished, CardBook synchronizes your addressbooks. You can always trigger a synchronisation manually by clicking "Synchronize" in the top left corner of CardBook.
.. image:: ../images/synchronize_cardbook.png
Calendar
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- `Thunderbird <https://www.thunderbird.net/>`_ for your OS unless it comes with your OS distribution (Linux)
- `Lightning <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/>`_ (a Thunderbird calendar add-on.)
Once you've installed Lighning and Thunderbird do like this:
1. Go to your Nextcloud Calendar and click on the 3 dotted menu for the calendar that you want to synchronize which will display and URL that looks something like this:
https://cloud.nextcloud.com/remote.php/dav/calendars/daniel/personal/
2. Go to the calendar view in Thunderbird and right click in the calendar menu to the left (where the names of the calendars are) to add a **New Calendar**.
3. Choose **On the network**
.. image:: ../images/new_calendar.png
4. Choose **CalDAV** and fill in the missing information:
.. image:: ../images/CalDAV_calendar.png
Fix for Thunderbird 60
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If you are still using Thunderbird 60, you need to change a configuration setting to make CalDAV/CardDAV work around Thunderbird bug `#1468918 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468912>`_ as described `here <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/thunderbird-60-problems-with-address-and-calendar-sync/35773>`_