Interguru's Netscape to Eudora Address Conversion

This page will convert a Netscape address book file to the equivalent Eudora mail program's nicknames file.

Instructions

Note: There is a bug in Eudora 4 which prevents it from accepting the address book that you converted. I have changed to conversion to compensate for this bug. If it still does't work, let me know. The bug has been fixed in the 4.1 beta version, but I can't advise you to use it as it is just a beta version and may have other problems. (Sept. 3 1998)

Note: Read all instructions before doing anything.

Netscape 4 and above

Go to Communicator Menu:Address Book
From Address Book window, File Menu: Save As
Save the file in some convenient place on your disk as "abook.ldif"
This is an ldif file, go back to the main Interguru conversion page, and convert it from ldif to whatever you want.

Netscape 1-3

The input Netscape address file is located:

In your Netscape folder's Navigator folder as "address.htm" for Windows users.
As "AddressBook.html" in System Folder:Preferences:Netscape : for Mac users

Select this file with the Browse button.

Press the Start Process button.

The output is a Eudora nicknames file. Using the File Menu: Save As, save it to the appropriate place with the appropriate name (see below). You might want to rename the nickname file that is already there to save it.

Window 95/98/ME Users, save the file as "nndbase.txt" in your Eudora directory. Windows 2000/XP look under Documents and Settings for the user in question. Delete the file nndbase.toc so that Eudora will regenerate a new table of contents.
Mac Users should save it in "System Folder:Eudora Folder" and rename it "Eudora Nicknames" .

If you already have an address book and you have more addresses to add , there are two choices.

Use a word processor to merge the two files. This will only work if you have no duplicate aliases. You can eliminate the duplicate aliases by hand, but be sure you change aliases in the lists too.
Save the address book as with a name such as " newaddresses.txt" in the nicknames folder (which is inside the folder where the main address book goes - see above). You will have new address book called "newaddresses"

If you already have an address book and you have more addresses to add , there are two choices.

Use a word processor to merge the two files. This will only work if you have no duplicate aliases. You can eliminate the duplicate aliases by hand, but be sure you change aliases in the lists too.
Save the address book as with a name such as " newaddresses.txt" in the nicknames folder (which is inside the folder where "nndbase.txt" goes - see above). You will have new address book called "newaddresses"

If you have Eudora open, you must quit and re-start it to have the new nicknames list take effect.

Technical Notes

If you want a sample Netscape addressbook file to test this script on, click here, and save the file as "address.htm"

To avoid overburdening the server, we have limited the file to 120k bytes.

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