Address Book import from hard drive NOT runnung computer

I am ReCoVeRiNg from BOTH of my Macs dying! Now I have a Mac Pro. zthe old hard drives are still usable (firewire accessible) I figured how to get ZSafari bookmarks... Now I want my old asddress book contacts. Everting I see say export then import - I can not export - all i can do it see the AddressBook.data file. How can I get at it???
BTW
the Mac Pro is VERY QUICK!!!!!

Hi Jonathan, and a warm welcome to the forums!
For Address Book...
Files...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
Folders...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/
Doubtful any of those will be of use except...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata/<36 digits>:ABPerson.abcdp
Which AB in 10.5 or higher should import I hear.
The other way would be to use Migration assistant.

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