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Import the Yahoo Address Book to 10.2's Address Book Apps
Mac OS X Jaguar AddressBook (v3.03) will import LDIF data, which is a Netscape/Mozilla format for address book and contact information. Yahoo lets you export all your contacts in "Netscape Addressbook" format, which is LDIF. But I found that importing my Yahoo_ab.ldif file into Address Book causes the importer to freeze half-way; it just hangs there. However, Mozilla appears to import Yahoo_ab.ldif without a glitch. So here are the steps I took to import all my Yahoo contacts into Jag's Address Book:
  1. On Yahoo's address book, go to import/export. Export your address book into Netscape Addressbook format, aka LDIF.
  2. Open Mozilla for OS X. In the bottom left-hand corner, click on the address book icon. Go to Tools -> Import, pick LDIF, and choose the Yahoo ldif file generated in step one. Let it import all your stuff, and verify all your data is there.
  3. Still in Mozilla Address Book, select Tools -> Export -> LDIF, and save it as yet another .ldif file, say moz_ab.ldif
  4. Open the Address Book application in Mac OS X, and select File -> Import -> LDIF, and pick the moz_ab.ldif file generated by Mozilla in step three.
Bickity-bam, you should be done.
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Import the Yahoo Address Book to 10.2's Address Book
Authored by: jmarr400 on Jul 24, '03 02:01:04PM

Can also be done using Netscape's browser. Export and save LDIF file to desktop. Then import into address book and viola...worked for me.



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have it fixed instead !
Authored by: voldenuit on Jul 24, '03 02:08:35PM

Great you found this out !
While I don't have a Yahoo account to give it a whirl, I am a unix hacker and as such I would humbly suggest that you (or any fellow hacker) diff the files that come out of Yahoo and out of Mozilla, figure out whats wrong and file a bug or against yahoo (wouldn't hold my breath here), Mozilla (all the best to the new foundation) or AddressBook, depending on the one that doesn't conform to the standard.
Should standard (text) diff see no diferences, try a binary diff instead, there might be some non-printable caracters in there.



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Import the Yahoo Address Book to 10.2's Address Book
Authored by: frankie1969 on Jul 24, '03 03:09:07PM

You must have a strange character in one of your Yahoo entries. My address book imported to my Mac without any problem.



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Is it possible...?
Authored by: kennyfett on Jul 25, '03 09:48:34AM

To do it the opposite way? Gonna have to try that...

If I can get all my 10.2 addresses into Yahoo, I'll have very little need for my .mac webmail and it's address book...

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Palm Contacts to Yahoo!
Authored by: Jacques on Jul 25, '03 11:09:57AM

There is one round-about way to do it if you use a Palm: sync your Palm to a PC, then use Yahoo! supplied software to sync your contacts to Yahoo! AB.



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Palm Contacts to Yahoo!
Authored by: kennyfett on Jul 25, '03 02:19:21PM

...and if we don't? LOL..

Well, tried it the opposite way- Mozilla doesn't import the Mail.app vcards, and Yahoo does absolutely nothing with the vcard either.

Even tried to change the suffix to .ldif- no dice.

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Exporting your Mac OS X Jaguar Address Book to Yahoo
Authored by: valmont on Jul 29, '03 02:35:49PM

A little bit of googling (Nifty Tool) appears to reveal the answer you seek:

People who wish to export their Mac OS X Jaguar Address Book data to various text files compatible with Yahoo Address Book and applications such as Entourage and Palm Desktop can use:

David Martin's Mac OS X Address Book Exporter.

I haven't tried it, but apparently this guy's tool lets you export your address book data to a comma-delimited file, with a pre-set for the yahoo-supported format. Pretty cool :)

It's also freeware apparently! I just paypal'ed the guy $20.

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Exporting your Mac OS X Jaguar Address Book to Yahoo
Authored by: b1gjohn on Jan 24, '04 07:41:31PM

the ABE only exports in a txt file, yahoo doesn't accept txt files - only csv's.

Anyone know a way to export the Address Book to a csv?



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.txt -->.csv
Authored by: scorpion on Jan 25, '04 11:13:38AM

Can't you open the .txt file in Excel and just do a save as .csv?

If you don't have Excel there might be something on versiontracker or macupdate.

Good luck



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Yahoo IDs
Authored by: LouieNet on Jul 29, '03 12:15:25AM

I've found that the Yahoo IDs do not get transported with this method.

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Yahoo IDs
Authored by: valmont on Jul 29, '03 02:15:05PM

i think Yahoo purposefuly filters out yahoo ids from exported data. but i'm not sure. heh.

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