Have new iMac. My Mac Pro went down in a fire...

I had a house fire and my Mac Pro went down. I have all 4 hard drives with Snow Leopard on one of them from the computer. I bought an iMac as a temp stepping stone before I get another Mac Pro. In the meantime all I really need from the Snow Leopard hard drive to import into Mavericks is the address book. Can anyone tell me how to do that? I may need to get Mac Mail also but that is not quite as important really. If I used migration assistant could I get ONLY those 2 things? Its kind of nice I have a clean Mac for a change and don't want to muddy it up too much. Would kind of like all my settings from Dreamweaver but don't think I can get that since I believe I would have had to export them first.
Any help would be appreciated.

Migration Assistant basically has 2 main options…
Import users
Import Applications
The second one will copy all the applications & supporting data - not what you want since it will add a lot of old applications & their background jobs - old gunk for your new Mac
The first option will allow you to just get the user data, and you can select which account's you would like.
There is one thing to consider - make sure you don't have an existing user account on the Mac that has the same shortname as one you want to import (the 'shortname' is what the home folder is called). That way you get user with your old data separate from the current user.  You can also delete the user if it appears to slow things up (users files shouldn't break the entire OS).
From there you can open Contacts (was Address book), export the data as an 'archive' from the file menu. Save that into /Users/Shared and then open it inside your other user account. You will have the data without all the other gunk in your account. Calendars (was iCal) also has an export option.
You can also look at Mail's settings, Keychain Access (your passwords), Dreamweaver etc in this migrated user account and decide on what you need to export or make note of. Obviously you will need to get Dreamweaver installed since you are not migrating applications.
For what it is worth I would make a full system backup before beginning, you shouldn't need it, but it's best to be cautious with tools that can move masses of data into your lovely clean operating system.
Post back if you think of other things you need to grab.

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