address book lists

Hi Ramona:

I have a huge address book that I'm trying to import onto a new computer. The problem is that there are atleast 24 lists within this book. When I import, the addresses are created into a "new" book and not in the "Personal Address Book" with the lists. It goes into it's own book labeled what it was exported as (i.e. address.ldif) and the 24 lists are under there. I can copy and past the original addresses in the root of the address.ldif into Personal Address Book, but the 24 lists will not drag, drop, copy, paste. It takes too long to create the lists in the Personal Address Book (and they have to be a different name and then go back and rename after deleting them in the address.ldif book).

Is there any simpler way that I'm not finding?

 

I never tried to drag and drop or copy and paste entire lists, but have you tried to highlight the names, keeping the shift key down as you do it, and then select to copy, and then paste? The main reason for having the lists in the Personal Address book is to be able to have all which you wish to have there, and have no problem with Junk Controls. Otherwise, there is no reason to have a humongous AB, if you have the addresses in a number of small ABs. How did they get there in first place? And, don't you have an address book with all the addresses which you could import from an .ldif file?

 

lists within address book

This way the user can send to specific people on a list instead of the entire address book. The lists within the address book may consist of 5 people on a committee and 25 people in the division, and so on. It works wonderfully until you need to put it on another computer. Upgrading, it works great too.

Yes, the copy and paste is the only way, but the long way when you have 25 lists.

I hear Netscape 7.x is not the way to go now and we will be upgrading all users to SeaMonkey if not FireFox and ThunderBird.

Thanks for the info though. We'll work things out. Just thought someone knew the answer before I had to upgrade everyone.

Suzette

 

Suzette,

Copy the abook.mab file on the old PC to the new PC, and your Lists should be intact. I admit going brain dead in trying to duplicate your problem by Importing, and that certainly didn't work! But, copying the file itself (abook.mab) and not using the Import feature, will do the job. Boy, it has been a very long time since I've used Netscape 7.2.

Good to hear that you are upgrading to Firefox and Thunderbird, or SeaMonkey, as Netscape is definitely outdated!

 

I did not understand that we were talking about mailing lists which were part of the personal address book. In my case, I remove most duplicate addresses from the Personal Address Book, and, I have separate address books with mailing lists.
Or, i don't understand this address book business, at all. Are all separate address books, including the Personal AB, included in the abook.mab file.
I don't want to mess with this, and ruin what I have to test, but I would be good to know.