Import Adresses from earlier Address Book

I want to import all my addresses from a version of Address Book that i have backed up on an external drive. I am running Leopard now on my MacBook. On my external drive i have a backup of the entire user that i logged in as on my previous laptop (powerbook). This backup is one of a user running under Tiger.
How do i get my addresses from this external backup to show up in my Address Book running under Leopard?

If it wasn't saved as an Address Book Archive (which I don't think Tiger had) then there are a few options.
If you have the powerbook still functioning, Export the addresses as vCards and then Import them into the new MacBook that way. File Menu, Import> and Export>.
If you don't have any data in the new MacBook's Address Book, just copy the AddressBook.data file from the old user/Library/Application Support/Address Book/ folder to the new MacBook in the same location. When you open Address Book, it will update the Library from the old version.
If you do have data, you could move everything out of the user/Library/Application Support/Address Book/ folder to some location for safekeeping. Do as I mentioned in the second option, and then Export those addresses as vCards. Replace the contents of the Address Book folder with the original files, then open Address Book and Import what you just Exported. In this case, it might be easier to just export the current address book as an address book archive, move the old AddressBook.data file into the folder, the open Address Book, let it convert, then import from the Archive.
After writing all that, wouldn't it be great if address book could import its own file format.

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Hi and Welcome to the Community!
ralphhr wrote:
1) If use a number from my address book, example 1-604-824-2021, to call long distance I get a message "all long distance calls must include the area code. Please check the number and dial again."   If I use the telephone pad to call the exact same number, eg 1-604-82402021, the call goes through. Is there a setting to adjust? Please advise. Thank you.
Please check your Smart Dialing settings...it may be that they are active, which could make the "1" in your Contact Item extraneous.
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ralphhr wrote:
2) I synched my BB to Outlook 2007 on my pc in order to print a hardcopy of my contact list. The sync worked fine but only gave me the contacts with an email address and their name. Contacts on my BB without email addresses didn't show on the list and all details, addresses, birthdates, and most importantly phone numbers for any contacts didn't show up. Is there a way to get ALL the contact details on a hardcopy? Thank you.
Interesting...it should sync everything...hmmm... Well, if your only interest is a hard copy, then an export might be just as simple. The Desktop Software can export to a CSV, which you could then render in Excel, and do with as you please. Unfortunately, the export feature was removed in the most recent versions of the Desktop Software (don't ask...it's a HUGE bru-ha-ha!!), and you must use an older version (6.x or lower, as I recall) to do that:
http://www.blackberryos.com/downloads.php?do=cat&id=110
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Contact name not showing in call/sms log even when I call/sms from my address book.

Two things have changed on my phone recently.
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In the end I reset my phone to factory settings. I created a back up of my address book and ical. Reset the phone and did a sync again. This fixed it all. I didn't need to use the backups but is was nice to know they were there. I felt entering the various passwords for all my installed apps was a much better deal than adding the international area code to the 166 contacts I have in my address book.
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