[LagunaSol]

I figured this would be a simple drag/drop or import affair (as has always worked for me in the past), but apparently not with Leopard. I backed up my drive with Super Duper and did a clean install of Leopard. I don't want to use Migration Assistant. Does anyone know how I can get my old Address Book data from the backup drive into the new Address Book app?

Thanks in advance.

[Photo678]

What I did, was went into user>library>app support and copied the address book folder over into leopard. you have to open the folder and copy the contents. but worked for me

[LagunaSol]

Hmm, that's exactly what I tried but it didn't work for me.

The file types for the new app aren't even the same as they were in Tiger.

[RiotMac]

I deleted the AddressBook folder in my user->Library->Application Support in 10.5 and then copied the old one from 10.4. I also copied over the Address Book preference file located in my user->Library->Preferences. It is com.apple.AddressBook.plist.

[LagunaSol]

Perfect, that worked RiotMac. Thanks!

I guess my problem is I was trying to add files from the app support directory to the existing files rather than replacing the entire directory.

[nycdunz]

did you know you can just export the group vcard and reload it into the new address book in leopard , no need to copy anything, or backup your database from tiger's address book and reload it into leopard's address book, can't be any simpler...

[LagunaSol]

Yeah, the problem is I had already wiped Tiger. Had all my backup data, but no way to boot back into Tiger to export from the Tiger apps.