How do i import Address Book

I am using Snow Leopard with a new iMac, and want to import the Address Book in my G4 Sawtooth running Tiger. How do get the content of the old address book to the new address book?
Thanks.
Robert

Try this:
Open Address Book on Tiger SawtoothG4. Highlight/select a group one at a time. For each group, highlight/select all cards within that group. Drag to your Sawtooth's desktop. You will get one "mega-VCF" card with a name like "Alice Adams and 43 others.vcf". Rename that file to "GroupName.vcf" (where "GroupName" is replaced by your actual group's name). Repeat for remaining groups. Transfer them all to a USB mem stick, or if the Sawtooth's USB is burnt up, too, email them to yourself. On the new iMac, put the mega-vcf's on the iMac Desktop. Open Address Book. Manually create your groups in Address Book. Drag and drop each "GroupName.vcf" file one-by-one into their appropriate group in Address Book. Done.

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