Possible options for exporting your AOL address book: 1. Try a program called AOLeave Tools. It requires Java and may only work on a PC. You might have to do a 5 MB download of Java, configure it, then get the tool then export your address book. I expect you can get the address book in AOL by logging in on a PC even if a Mac was used before, but this might take some work, too. I've never tried it - just something that turned up on a Google search. Back up all data before trying this.
2. Print-to-file: On Mac, you can get PrintToPDF, a shareware program, to create a PDF of what would normally be your printed address book. This is easier to install than AOLeave probably, but the result isn't as good: you can copy and paste out of the PDF, but would have to do a lot of manipulation to make it into a FileMaker-importable file (lots of clever search-and-replaces). There are probably some print-to-plain-text tools (there's a print-to-html tool), but I'm not familiar with them. For Mac, try searching on http://versiontracker.com or for PC, try http://tucows.com 3. Find an email program that knows how to import AOL address books, but also knows how to export in tab-delimited or comma-delimited format, or who's native storage format is something readable. There's a good chance that one of these does: Outlook Express on Mac, Eudora, Claris eMailer (Mac), or Netscape Communicator. On the Mac, one or more of these may already be installed. I'd try 3 first, then 1 or 2 depending on how you feel about installing Java. Your mileage may vary (a lot). Hope that helps, Paul Collins On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 04:38 PM, Cheryl Gipson wrote: > The first problem I have encountered is moving the AOL > address books to a MAC. According to technical > support at AOL it can't be done. The support person > suggested that I print out the address lists and > recreate them on the MAC. ** Gracion Software ���� http://www.gracion.com/ ** ** Tel: +1 (541) 488-3488 Fax: +1 (541) 488-3492 ** ** ClickMail Central Directory - LDAP on Mac OS! ** ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
