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Authored by: robg on Sep 02, '02 10:20:55AM

This was submitted as an anonymous hint, so I'm posting as a comment here, as it may be relevant...

-rob.

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I tried the OSXHints method. I had not backed it up, but my old addressbook had not been deleted; indeed it still opens fine under 10.1.5. However, when it's imported and converted, all I saw were two out of the hundred or so records in the original database.

Opening the same file on a 10.1.5 machine and poking around revealed a interesting fact: the two addresses that transferred were categorized as "unfiled". The rest were all categorized as "Temporary" (remember this? No? Don't feel bad, grin...)

Editing the entries in 10.1.5 (turning off all Categories) and then re-importing as described at OSXHints fixed the problem.

Oh, and another thing: many of my entries had only the email address. In 10.1.5's Address Book, an entry with blank name fields showed the email address in place of the name. 10.2 merely shows "<no name>". So add a name to any unnamed entries when prepping for the move to 10.2.



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RE:These methods did not work for me
Authored by: chrisoft on Sep 10, '02 06:50:59AM
What I did to get it working after a clean install is this:

I deleted ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
Then I put the original 10.1 address book folder back in ~/Library/Addresses (and I put also the pictures back in ~/Library/Images/People)
Finally I relaunched the address book app and it imported everything with pictures and all. No need to rename the files or anything 8)

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