Importing Contacts into Jag Address Book from Jag Address Book

[Roy Vincent]

My 10.2 Address Book prefs are not working.

So I'm thinking of reinstalling 10.2 on my 10.2 partition. (I have just installed 10.2; and I have a 10.2 partition, a 10.1.5 partition, and a 9.2.2 partition on a G4 iMac.)

But I want to save my Address Book addresses (contacts) and then get them into the reinstalled 10.2 Address Book.

How to do this ? Apple has an article 107051 telling how to import contacts from Entourage. Will the instructions there work in my case?

Here are Apple's instructions in that article:

"To import contacts from Entourage:

1. Create a new folder in the Finder on your desktop named "Contacts".
2. Open the address book in Entourage.
3. Select the contacts you want to export. If you want to export all of them, choose Select All from the Edit menu.
4. Drag the selected contacts into the Contacts folder that you created. This creates vCard files for each of the contacts you selected.
5. Quit Entourage.
6. Open the Address Book application.
7. Choose View Card and Columns from the View menu.
8. Drag the Contacts folder from the desktop to the Groups column of the Address Book window.

The contact information should now be available in Address Book."

If I do steps analogous to 2--5 and then copy the contacts folder to my 10.1.5 partition, can I then use steps 6--8 to get the contacts folder into my newly installed 10.2 Address Book? It should work, shouldn't it?

Has anybody done this? (Not likely.) Opinions welcome even if nobody has done this.

[Roy Vincent]

Quote: Originally posted by Roy Vincent My 10.2 Address Book prefs are not working. So I'm thinking of reinstalling 10.2 on my 10.2 partition. (I have just installed 10.2; and I have a 10.2 partition, a 10.1.5 partition, and a 9.2.2 partition on a G4 iMac.) But I want to save my Address Book addresses (contacts) and then get them into the reinstalled 10.2 Address Book. How to do this ? Apple has an article 107051 telling how to import contacts from Entourage. Will the instructions there work in my case? Here are Apple's instructions in that article: "To import contacts from Entourage: 1. Create a new folder in the Finder on your desktop named "Contacts". 2. Open the address book in Entourage. 3. Select the contacts you want to export. If you want to export all of them, choose Select All from the Edit menu. 4. Drag the selected contacts into the Contacts folder that you created. This creates vCard files for each of the contacts you selected. 5. Quit Entourage. 6. Open the Address Book application. 7. Choose View Card and Columns from the View menu. 8. Drag the Contacts folder from the desktop to the Groups column of the Address Book window. The contact information should now be available in Address Book." If I do steps analogous to 2--5 and then copy the contacts folder to my 10.1.5 partition, can I then use steps 6--8 to get the contacts folder into my newly installed 10.2 Address Book? It should work, shouldn't it? Has anybody done this? (Not likely.) Opinions welcome even if nobody has done this.

Yup. This works to get contacts back in. I reinstalled10.2 tonite. My Address Book prefs (sort by first name/last name) and (display as first name then last/last name then first) still don't work. Size of text pref does. Strange!

Late Edit: Oops. Got the Address Book prefs to work too.