[imp] Importing a netscape address book?

[David F. Reed]

Jan Schneider wrote:

>Zitat von "David F. Reed" <davereed@W5SV.ORG>:
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>>I am not sure if I should be looking for a turba list,
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>You should.
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I did before I heard from you, and found no answer in the FAQs; but 
before I
posted the question there, I got an answer (below).

>>but my question is "is there an easy way to import a netscape address
>>book?"
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>Not unless someone writes an import driver. Do you volunteer?
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>Jan.
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Fortunately not all replies are as "helpful" as yours; I admit my ignorance,
in many areas no less.  But why waste the bandwidth for a reply of this
nature?

I did receive a helpful reply BTW, one that gave me a real answer;
maybe someone else will benefit from it too, so I pass it on below.

Obviously Jan, you did not think of it either, or you might have 
suggested it
rather than your invitation to write a driver.

And it is so simple both of us should have thought of it...

Without further ado, (the answer, courtesy of : jshanley@wiretapped.us

>Open up your address book in Netscape. Choose File -> Export, 
>select "CSV" as the format you want to use.  Then choose import/export in 
>Turba, and "browse.." to the file you exported on your hard drive.
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>What will happen is, it will show the usual two columns; the left side 
>will be various information pieces from the FIRST account in your address 
>book.  The right side will be the categories you want to import those 
>specific pieces into.  On the left column, there will probably be spaces 
>with no data, that's normal.  IE:
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>Dave
>Ramer
>Dave Ramer
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>dramer@abc.com
>ABC Productions
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>1 Arkwell Way
>Houston
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>So, to import the data - Click "Dave" (first name), and then 
>choose "Name" or "First Name" or whatever would match on the right side, 
>and add that pair.  Then move on to his email address, select that, and 
>choose "Email" on the right side.  You get the idea.
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>Once you've matched all the categories to the information from that first 
>account, click import.  It will match the rest of your address book up, 
>based on your choices for the first entry.  When I imported mine though, 
>I ended up with one full page of "empty / filler" entries - however, it 
>still imported my address book correctly after that page.
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>I'm probably not explaining this very well, and I apologize if it's not 
>clear.. but I figured I'd at least try to answer your question.
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>- J
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