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Move AOL addresses to Address Book
Authored by: Fofer on Feb 05, '04 01:05:05PM

AOL actually *used* to have a great little utility called: "Address Book Extractor" that was intended for use with Claris Emailer.

Still available on Apple's site:
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Application_Updates/Claris_Emailer/Claris_Emailer_2.x/AOL3_0Addressextractor.sea.bin

"This utility quickly exports all the addresses from the AOL 3.0 address book to a (text) file that can be imported by Claris Emailer 2.0. This utility is only necessary with the 3.0 version of AOL software; access to previous AOL address books is built into Claris Emailer 2.0."

It also worked with AOL 4 and 5, and the resulting text file was importable into any other address book program, email client, or database. With the move to OS X the addressbook datafile format changed, so this nifty little (and largely unknown) program stopped working.

<grumble>

Would it *kill* AOL to have just included a simple "export addresses" function?

Oh yes, scratch that, yes, it would.

</grumble>



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