After upgrading to Lion, Mac MAIL won't import address book!!

After a LONG download of the Lion upgrade, I find that I can't import my old address list from Mac MAIL. Anybody have this problem? Also can't setup any email accounts in Mac MAIL, manually or by import. This was no problem at all with SL.

Robert,
vCard is a sort of standard that can be used in many addressbook-like applications.
Exactly how do you attach them?
Do you export the vcards from AB and then send them as attachment in Mail?
They should be included inyour mail without problem, and on the receiving end, when they have a program that support vCards, they should have no problem importing them.
Mail does it almost automatically, just double clicking will send it to your AB.
.MAc will not think it is a virus.
Do you have just address data in there or do you have something in the Notes field that messed it up?

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