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fotojoe - Feb 5, 2007 - 12:01 pm

How do I go about importing my address book from Outlook Express or is this possible?

leonard.leotech - Feb 5, 2007 - 3:04 pm

Are you asking how to import your Outlook Express address book to the address book on the mac?

fotojoe - Feb 5, 2007 - 9:00 pm

Yes. I have the addresses saved on my external hard drive.

fotojoe - Feb 7, 2007 - 9:44 pm

We strive to bring the best experience for not only you, our wonderful users, but our great techs as well. For this reason, we are sending this reminder email that we have not heard from you 24 hours since we last notified you a tech had answered your question. We'd like an update from you if possible.

ummm...I think the ball's in your court. ;-)

fotojoe - Feb 21, 2007 - 9:13 am

I am reopening this because I got an e-mail telling me I need to reply.

As you can see I made the last 2 replies and closed the ticket since it was obvious noone knew the answer.

I am going to close it again...would someone please get this page working correctly!

LovesMacs - Feb 21, 2007 - 2:25 pm

Hi Joe,

If you haven't found a solution as yet for Importing OE to a Mac, please post back and I will happy to help you.

Regards,
Carolyn :-)

fotojoe - Feb 21, 2007 - 4:47 pm

Thanks Carolyn; I still haven't figured out how to do it.

The only way i could save my addresses (other then one at a time as a V Card) was using comma separated values.

The Mac help info tell me to import as a V Card.

Thanks for any help you can give me as I am just pasting and copying the addresses as I need them...I have over 500!

Joe

LovesMacs - Feb 21, 2007 - 5:08 pm

HI Joe,

I should have asked this sooner, forgive me. Which Mail application are you trying to Import into from OE? Is it Mac Mail ???

Carolyn :-)

fotojoe - Feb 21, 2007 - 6:40 pm

Outlook Express- and I have an Imac with Intel Duo proceesor and the mail program that comes with it.

LovesMacs - Feb 21, 2007 - 6:52 pm

Launch Mac Mail. Then click File>Import Mailboxes and follow the instructions.

Carolyn

fotojoe - Feb 21, 2007 - 9:22 pm

My address are saves a comma separted values. When I follow the instructions, the csv file I saved is not hightlighted as a option.

Here is what the Mac help screen has to say...note that it states File>Import> VCards.

"Once you’ve copied the folder with your addresses to your Macintosh computer, you can import them into Address Book. To do so, open Address Book (in the Applications folder). Choose File > Import > vCards. Select the addresses you’re importing and click Open."

The only way I could save them as VCards in OE was to save them individually...all 500 + of them.

fotojoe - Feb 22, 2007 - 10:37 pm

I guess I'll need to close this ticket again. I keep getting an e-maila telling me I need to respond but the last post is mine. Now I am old and I have been know to talk to myself but really! ;-)

fotojoe - Feb 24, 2007 - 10:49 am

Well 3 e-mail msgs in a row telling me that I have not responded. As you will note, I have made the last 3 posts. Getting tired of talking to myself although I seem to learn more that way!

Let me know when this forum actually works and I may try again!

LovesMacs - Feb 24, 2007 - 2:05 pm

Hello,

I'm so sorry that our communication seems to be off. However, I did look up info on VCards and that is why you can't Import e-mail addresses from OE to Mac mail. It has to be a straight forward e-mail address. Sorry about that.

You might try the forums at www.apple.com/support

Thanks for your patience!

Regards,
Carolyn :-)

fotojoe - Feb 24, 2007 - 2:24 pm

Thanks for the reply. I'll close the ticket now. Have a nice day. ;-)