HIT: saving address book/favorites

[B Young <Brenda525@AOL.COM>]

I only got 2 responses (but many requests for a HIT) to my query regarding
saving my favorites and address book in AOL to transfer when I switch to
another ISP.  Here are the 2 responses that I got:
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AOL has it's own "favorites" . It's your files in the AOL/ORG folder.
Unfortunately, the only program that can read those files is AOL. However, if
you know what your new email address will be, you can drag the URLs to an
email and send it to your new address. Then you have to open each link and
resave it to the IE favorites. You could do something similar by opening
"Edit" in  Favorites Places, then using copy and paste to copy each URL to an
IE window that you opened outside of AOL and saving them that way. Either
method is time consuming, but AOL is designed  not to mesh well with other
outside applications. Sorry there is no easier way.
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For Favorites pull down File to Import and Export and follow the
wizard. Or open Windows Explorer, Go to C:\Windows\Favorites  (Windows
9X and Me) or C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Favorites (Windows 2000
and XP).

Right Click the Favorites folder. Choose Send To 3.5 Floppy (A). If it's
too big for floppy copy it to a network folder or Zip disk.

The AOL 5 Address Book is proprietary and I don't know of any easy
computer conversion tools.

If you're moving to Outlook Express then you might try to create a AOL
message with as many addresses as it will hold on the To: line.
Highlight, Copy the line of addresses and open a new Outlook Express
message window, and paste the line in.

Doubleclick each entry to get the dialog for "Add to address book"
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Brenda Young, Library Media Specialist
Rosehill Elementary
Omaha, NE
brenda525@aol.com (home)
youngbl@ops.org (work)

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