Rebuild old address book after clean install of 10.2
Aug 28, '02 09:33:30AM
Contributed by: xavagus
I did a clean install of Mac OS X 10.2 and after doing so wanted to see what some of the new apps looked like. One of them was the Address Book. But then later, I wanted to import my old addresses from another system. The help documentation for the Address Book said that the application would automatically import an old database when the Address Book was run for the first time on an upgrade. But I didn't upgrade, I did a clean install. But don't fear, you can still do it later (assuming you have previously backed up your Address Book!). Here is how you do it:
- Quit the Address Book application if it is open.
- Copy your old address book database, which can be found at /Users -> username -> Library -> Addresses -> Address Book.addressbook, to your new system and put it in the same location (you may have to create the directories depending on what level you copy the file from).
- Rename the AddressBook folder found at: /Users -> username -> Library -> Application Support -> AddressBook. I renamed mine AddressBookZZZ.
- Run the Address Book application again. It should discover the old database and rebuild the AddressBook folder and files in the Application Support folder.
- If everything went OK, then you can delete the AddressBookZZZ folder as it is no longer used.
If, for some reason, things did not go correctly, just rename the "ZZZ" file and you'll be back to where you started.
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