Hello,
I am fairly new to the mac word/way of doing things and I don't want
to be discouraged by this annoying experience. Please help if you
can.

I backed up my sister's address book from the mail application. I did
it quite some time ago and I can't remember what method I used
(export, VCard, etc.), but I copied it to a CD. In any case, I now
have a file called Address Book.addressbook on this CD that I cannot
open. When I try opening it with "mail", it opens up a new email with
the file as an attachment. When I try opening up the attachment, it
opens up another new email with itself as an attachment again.

So, my sister's addressbook is blank and I want to re-import the
addresses from the CD. Not sure how to do this. I tried doing a
"more" command at a terminal, and I can see that stuff is there, but
it's all garbled. Anyway, I don't necessarily need to see what's in
it, but I was trying to just manually import everything into the
address book again by cut and paste.

So, any ideas?

I can't import (as far as I can tell) b/c the addresses are not in the
VCard or LDIF format.

Thanks in advance!

What program is this address book from? Whatever the program, I think you
need to simply place it where the address book program normally gets its
addresses from, and you should see them when you open the program. (Make
sure you save the old "address" file should you want to revert back to it if
this doesn't work for some reason.)

Kind Regards,
Nathaniel
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flikWORLD Design
reply to: nat at flikworld(dot)com


in article 1acd5482.0401081808.31396ae0@posting.google.com, Miriam at
pinksprkls@comcast.net wrote on 1/8/04 7:01 PM:

> Hello,
> I am fairly new to the mac word/way of doing things and I don't want
> to be discouraged by this annoying experience. Please help if you
> can.
>
> I backed up my sister's address book from the mail application. I did
> it quite some time ago and I can't remember what method I used
> (export, VCard, etc.), but I copied it to a CD. In any case, I now
> have a file called Address Book.addressbook on this CD that I cannot
> open. When I try opening it with "mail", it opens up a new email with
> the file as an attachment. When I try opening up the attachment, it
> opens up another new email with itself as an attachment again.
>
> So, my sister's addressbook is blank and I want to re-import the
> addresses from the CD. Not sure how to do this. I tried doing a
> "more" command at a terminal, and I can see that stuff is there, but
> it's all garbled. Anyway, I don't necessarily need to see what's in
> it, but I was trying to just manually import everything into the
> address book again by cut and paste.
>
> So, any ideas?
>
> I can't import (as far as I can tell) b/c the addresses are not in the
> VCard or LDIF format.
>
> Thanks in advance!