Chris I wrote:
> Richard spoke thusly: > > >After having 4.73 crash one too many times, decided to try a newer > >version. > >Loaded up 6.2 > >Ran into various issues, including having 6.2 forcibly try to create new > >id from old id using C: drive without asking or giving me a choice to > >use a different drive. Very poor. > >So instead decided to create new id, and try to point 6.2 to where all > >of the 4.73 info was. This took some doing, as it was anything but > >intuitive. Have now managed to set up mail, with access to existing mail > >from 4.73. > >However, there does not appear to be a way to point to my 4.73 bookmark > >file. > >Also, there does not appear to be a way to point to my 4.73 address > >book. So in this case I found the import option, and tried to import my > >address book from 4.73. The result was that only part of the address > >book converted over. Several of the groups in my personal address book > >did not port. So I went back to 4.73, did and export to an ldif file, > >and tried to import the ldif file into 6.2. Got slightly different > >results, but still did not get the entire address book. > > > >Any assistance regarding address book, bookmarks, other items, would be > >appreciated. > > > > Netscape 6/7 can not use the same profile as Communicator. They use > different mail summary formats; the bookmark file names are different; > and the address books are a different format. This is why it wanted to > import your Communicator profile rather than use it. > > To specify a location for a new profile, use the profile manager to > create a new profile. To migrate your info manually from Communicator to > Netscape 6/7, go here: http://www.hmetzger.de/etips6.html#5 > > PS. Try Netscape 7.0 PR1, which is far better than 6.2. The final > Netscape 7.0 should be out this month. > > -- > Chris I > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thank you Chris. I went to the site. FYI, the suggestion for Address book is to export the old one as an ldif and then import it. I did that and it still did not bring over all of the groups I had created in 4.xx.
