Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / June 2006

I am currently trying to get my mother's email addresses with groupings
in Outlook Express 5.02 onto Address Book 4.0.3.  This Address Book is
on an old iMac G3 I recently upgraded to 10.4.6 (by zeroing and
formatting).  I have the Outlook Express backed-up onto a CD.  I have
an iBook G4 (with OS 10.3.7, Address Book 3.1.2) that I can use as well
to import the addresses, then transfer onto my mother's iMac.

But my question is how do I transfer them with over 10,000 email
addresses (2800 individual addresses with 58 groups that contain the
rest)?  Will I be able to have the groupings on Outlook Express
transfer over to the Address Book?

I am currently trying to use Import Addresses.scpt on my iBook G4 (its
a lot faster than my mother's iMac) to import the addresses with groups
into Address Book 3.1.2 directly from the Outlook Express application.
Then if that works I would transfer the address folder onto my mother's
computer.  But so far I have been unsuccessful, and the program has
been running for over 12 hours (I think it is still working, but in
Address Book I see no progress).  You don't have to address AppleScript
stuff unless you are familiar with it, but please tell me if you know
of a that program can solve my problem.  The real issue is the groups,
without them the address book is meaningless.  Please email me back as
soon as you get this.

Thanks.

P.S.  The specs for each comp involved are as follows:
iMac G3 (500 MHz PowerPC G3, 640 MB SRAM, 16 MB VRAM, OS 10.4.6 with
Classic ability, Address Book 4.0.3).

iBook G4 (1.07 GHz PowerPC G4, 768 MB DDR SDRAM, 32 MB VRAM, OS 10.3.7
with Classic ability, Address Book 3.1.2)

Once again, thanks for your time.