transfer evolution contacts

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:33:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 11:29 +0930, Tim wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 01:49 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> > I installed F11 on a new machine and now I'm migrating my junk from
>> > my old machine running F9. For evolution, I only want to transfer the
>> > contacts, not all the old messages.
>> 
>> Have you tried going to the contacts view, and right-clicking on the
>> address book?  There's an option to save the list of contents.
> 
> I am confused. Under the contacts view I see nothing called address book
> to click on. Under Actions tab there are options to copy contacts
> somewhere but I am at a loss how you tell it where to copy them to.
> 
> However, I found no option to load or copy them back anywhere.
> 
> Some further instruction is needed.
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In the contacts window, File -> Save address book as vCard. In the same 
menu you have also Import... 

Save in the old evolution and Import in the new one.