Can't Import Previous Address Book After Reinstall

Had to reinstall my Mac OSX 10.4.3 on my G-4 PowerBook after the G-4 showed only blue screen and refused to startup. The reinstall went so well I decided to upgrade to 10.4.9, and was able to locate and move/import my old Mail email messages from a saved copy off my "confused" harddrive. But I've had no such luck with Mail's old Address Book. vCards seem to be important to this operation, but so far I'm not able to do ANYthing with my former Address Book, much less export that data as a vCard. Any tips for how to fill out the new address book with my old addresses?

How is it you are trying to restore the data. You can just drag the AddressBook.data file over to your ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book/ folder and replace what you have there, already. You might want to copy what's there to another location, first, if you have already added anything. That way, you can go back to it if this doesn't work. Open Address Book. If the file is ok, it should open with all your old address data.

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