Importing data into Address Book

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Peter James - 12 Dec 2007 14:35 GMT

I want to import addresses from AppleWorks database into Address Book.
Is this possible?
Running a iMac G5 Power PC

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Gregory Weston - 12 Dec 2007 15:13 GMT

> I want to import addresses from AppleWorks database into Address Book.
> Is this possible?
> Running a iMac G5 Power PC

When I search for "import" in Address Book's help, I see that it can
import tab- and comma-delimited text files. It won't read the AW file
directly, but you should be able to export the data in a format that it
can read.

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Peter James - 12 Dec 2007 19:16 GMT

> > I want to import addresses from AppleWorks database into Address Book.
> > Is this possible?
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> directly, but you should be able to export the data in a format that it
> can read.

I read that as well. So I exported in comma-delimited format the
database of addresses that I needed to import into Address Book. But
with no result. it just didn't seem possible to get the file into
Addressbook. All that happened was that Addressbook created 27 entries
that corresponded to the 27 addresses in the file, but alas all the
entries were blank. So I'm no further forward.
I had hoped that someone on this NG had succeeded and could give me some
pointers.

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Gregory Weston - 12 Dec 2007 20:53 GMT

> > > I want to import addresses from AppleWorks database into Address Book.
> > > Is this possible?
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> I had hoped that someone on this NG had succeeded and could give me some
> pointers.

It's hard to know that when you don't say what you've tried already and
describe where things went wrong.

I just created a CSV file by hand, opened AB, selected import command,
told it which columns in the CSV belonged in which fields in AB,
unchecked the command to skip the first record and let it go. Success.

If you ended up with the correct number of entries, but blank, it sounds
like you left all the fields set to "don't import."

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Importing data into Address Book