Comments on: Backup Your Email Address Book – Video Tip

By: Christy

Christy — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:45:07 +0000

Just adding some thing here. In addition, you could also use mailstore to back up mail from all your email accounts (gmail, yahoo, thunderbird….) collectively to harddisk or usb. A big advantage is the ability to search for some thing in all the mails together. Mailstore can be installed into a usb, so it will run from any windows machine and u can carry your usb with all your mail viewable any time.

http://www.skipser.toolsbysk.com/p/2/p/general/how-to-backup-emails-on-usb-drive-easily.html

By: Jane Spaulding

Jane Spaulding — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:55:51 +0000

I got it to work. When I saved it as text, it saved it in the documents and it looks like I had saved it several times. I was able to save both Contacted and Person Addresses on a flash drive.
Thanks for everybody’s ideas and comments. I had no clue how to do this.

By: Jane Spaulding

Jane Spaulding — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:22:55 +0000

I tried that putting a .txt on the end of the Address File. It just says an empty file.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:13:20 +0000

When I do this, the output file has a ‘csv’ extension. That stands for ‘comma separated value’, and is just a text file. If you rename the file, changing csv to txt (or just adding .txt to the end of the file name), you can then open the file with any text editor or word processor program.

By: Jane Spaulding

Jane Spaulding — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:34:26 +0000

I backed up the Address Book from Thunderbird, but then what is a CSV format. I wanted to see what it looked like off the flash drive, if it could be read, but then it said use Adobe to open it with, it would not open, so I had to delete it. So I am back where I started from. It only had the LDIF format.

By: Emmie

Emmie — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:55:23 +0000

Thanks very much for this info. Very easy to follow your instructions.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:25:05 +0000

Thanks. I appreciate the feedback you took the time to share.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have found that backing up mail and address book is the easy part. (In fact backing up, in general)
My problem is restoring it. ie, I had it on a flash drive and couldnt seem to get it on to a new computer.
The address book, and the mail itself seem to be in different locations, correct? Could you please run thru the steps of reversing the backup process?

Thank you,
Anne

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I tried to export my address book via your instructions and all worked fine except only the Main Identity folder exported…not any of the sub folders. I tried selecting one of those to export and still got the Main Identity only. What’s happening?