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Move AOL addresses to Address Book
Authored by: Plazman on Mar 09, '04 06:25:36PM

Thanks Kurt for posting this tip. I'm trying to do it now, but things are breaking down when I try to import the CSV file into Entourage. There are numerous "unmapped fields" that get all mangled. I wind up with hundreds of blank contacts. Did you manually adjust the mapping when you did this step? It says, "To add or change a field mapping, drag the field to a new position in the Mapped fields box," but I haven't had any luck doing this.

SO CLOSE...and yet SO FAR. :-(

-Michael



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Move AOL addresses to Address Book
Authored by: ptwithy on Apr 04, '04 11:53:00PM

This hint

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6647

shows how to move in fewer steps. Just use Mozilla (Thunderbird) email to import and export the .ldif, it rewrites it in a format that address book understands, leaving Entourage out of the loop.



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Move AOL addresses to Address Book
Authored by: whiteshaft on Sep 16, '04 12:19:49AM

That's right. Import into Mozilla and export back out, Address Book reads just fine (10.2.8).

Keep in mind though that my wife's AOL address book didn't have a lot of phone numbers or other info, mostly just email addresses. She said that she had some phone numbers and secondary email information that didn't translate, but from what I can see the problem was with the original export from AOL Communicator.

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