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Moving my address book...

18 years ago

I just upgraded from dial-up to DSL. I have a new isp and need to take my address book from my earthlink account and move it to my new Centurytel account. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

A strange side note - I checked my new email and was surprised to find it full of all sorts of email regarding a trucking company with my last name. I deleted a bunch of stuff before I realized that I had someone else's email address. All fixed now! How wierd is that?

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OklaMoni
18 years ago
Lydia, if you found the export when you backed up your address book, you should be able to find import this time too. :)

Click on import, and then go to where you exported your address book to, and :)
import it. :)

Hope this makes sense to you.

Moni
donner
18 years ago
Next week I'm changing providers. I exported my address book and favorites to my desk top. Do you think that will save them?
Donna
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lydia1959
Original Author
18 years ago
Hi Moni!

I found where I had exported it to, but can't figure out how to get it where I want. The new email page is totally different and I can't see anywhere that I am able to export or import.

I may end up putting the addys in one at a time.

Donna, maybe Moni will pop back in and let you know. I saved my address book in documents. I would think desktop would work, but I don't know. Keep your old isp for a while until you get your new provider working well. I am still using my old email address from Earthlink - I haven't even called them yet to let them know I'll be cancelling services.
OklaMoni
18 years ago
Ladies, if you save your email addys via an export feature in your mail program, you should also be able to import it again, in to another email program.

I have done this, when I went from earthlink to gmail.

in gmail is the export opting like this:

Export Contacts
Export your contacts so you can transfer them to other accounts or save them offline.
Who do you want to export?
All of my contacts - 755
Only contacts in
What format would you like to export to?
Google's CSV format (for importing into another Google account).
Outlook's CSV format (for importing into Outlook or other applications).
vCard format (for importing into Address Book or other applications).

I have a folder in mozilla (as that is my browser) where I export all my addresses about once a month. I always overwrite the file that's already there, thus I have the latest and up to datetest (LOL) file for emergencies.

In the import option on gmail I have this:

Import Contacts
We support importing contacts in the CSV file format (Comma Separated Values). For best results, please use a CSV file produced by Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo!, or Hotmail. For Apple Address Book, there is a useful utility called "A to G".
Please select a file to upload
Import

Above all, know where you save your address book!!! otherwise, you can't import it in to a new mail program.

Another tip: Use a "free mail program", like hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc. With this your mail is web based, and you can pull it up on ANY computer, and you don't have to change addresses when you get a new server.

That's my reason to have gmail (main addy) yahoo mail for gardenweb and KT, yahoo mail for cycling... LOL, see where I am going? I have several email addresses, and I use them for different purposes.

All are web based and free.

Moni

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