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Import Outlook Express data into Address Book
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Jan 09, '08 05:50:51PM

I've had some success using Apple's "Import Addresses.scpt" at /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts, to import contacts directly from Outlook Express 5, but that was under OS 10.3.x, or some early version of OS 10.4.x--under OS 10.4.11 (and some people see these problems under OS 10.4.3 on up), I'm seeing the same problems with "Import Addresses.scpt" that mchonig describes--too many Applescript errors, which halt the import process, even when the contacts being imported from don't have any problems. I've seen these Applescript errors:

NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError
NSContainerEvaluationScriptError
NSContainerSpecifierError

I spent hours trying to figure out a fix, including various Applescript solutions some people have posted, including turning on, in the Universal Access prefpane, "Enable access for assistive devices"--I have no idea why this would help, but it didn't help me.

Then I tried the method that didn't work very well, if at all, in the early days of Address Book--having it import from a tab-delimited contacts file that I had exported from Outlook Express. Amazingly, it worked, importing everything almost immediately, instead of the sometimes hours-long wait that using Apple's "Import Addresses.scpt" often takes. It seems that Apple has improved, a lot, Address Book's ability to import from a tab-delimited contacts file.



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