How To Export Your AOL Address Book And E-mail

I don’t want to change from AOL, but after so-called help(??) from some of your tecnicians with a problem I had I can no longer access my
address book with all my information in it. I have tried calling but I got
very frustrated talking to a computer. How can I get through to a
technician?????? It won’t work no matter how hard I try–I need to have
a verbal conversation with a live person.

How can I forward an e-mail to several people on my address book? Since changing from dial-up service to high speed, I no longer can forward messages from my address book which is now under contacts.

Slightly different take on this problem, but one which I hope will help: I used ‘AOL Communicator’ (a kind of own-brand version of Outlook Express) for 3 or 4 years and then, this summer, bits started falling off it. Turns out AOL no longer support it; no, that’s an understatement - in a Stalinist rewrite of history, AOL virtually deny it ever existed.
I downloaded the free version of Eudora, didn’t like it, got the free Mozilla Thunderbird, loved it. Now, how to get all my (many indispensible) AOL addresses…..
This worked for me; if it floats your boat I’m delighted but if any technically-proficient people out there want to write in to say my advice is potentially lethal and a sop to Voldemort and evil Communists throughout the world that’s fine:
1) Open AOL Communicator; go to Window/Address Book then File/Export; you’ll see it saves as an “LDIF” file - give it an easy name & save it somewhere obvious. Don’t save it in ‘Northern Rock Bank’. Close AOL Communicator and its Address Book.
2) Open Eudora; go to File/Import; you get a small new window - click ‘Advanced’ then ‘Netscape Messenger’ (no, I don’t know why either); you’re asked to ‘Please locate your LDIF file…. /Browse…./Open’. (If you’ve stayed awake long enough to read this far I’ll assume you know how to do this.)
3) Close Eudora and open Thunderbird. Go to ‘Tools/Import/Address Book/Next/ EUDORA!!!!!!’(bit excited there)/Next.
4) Salivate. Rub yourself privily. Molest any nearby mammal. Thank me. Erase every last trace of AOL from your computer.
Good luck.

simple and free way of exporting your aol address book:

I’ve spent nearly 4 hours trying to figure out some way to trasfer contacts from aol to outlook but aol simply doesn’t give u this option!!!!!
I suggest this was made to discourage people from switching from Aol proprietary system which became just a bunch of crapware.

People mentioned these solutions online:

1) aol communicator - which how I found out was discontinued and i wasn’t able to find it anywhere online.
2) aolsync outlook plugin - simply didn’t work for me.:( Throws an error when I tried to sync. Later someone mentioned that this service no longer works two-ways. - it only sync outlook contacts into aol. Gee - i wonder why?
3) aoleave.com - discontinued. mentions aol 6.0 software on that website
4) epreserver.com - has a software that transfers everything from aol account - though it’s like 25 bucks which i had absolutely no intention to pay.

And finally - HERE IS HOW TO BACK UP YOUR AOL ADDRESS BOOK FOR FREE! :))

1) Go to Plaxo.com website and sign up - it’s free.

 plaxo.com - it’s sort of universal online address book and social networking site. I’ve never heard of it before but I think I’ll definitely use it in the future cuz it proved to be the only simple and FREE way of transferring aol contacts:)

2) During the sign up process it’ll ask you to add contacts from various services like gmail or aim/aol. - so - just enter your aol credentials.

It might ask u if u would like to send invitation to the people in ur address book - just click on skip when that happens.

3) When u pass setup process - click on “More” and than select “Address book”. At this point you should see all aol contacts over there. (luv u plaxo:)

4)Scroll down to the veryy bottom of the page and click on “+ Add sync points”. “Sync wizard” window will popup.

5) click on the option that says export address book (alternatively plaxo offers plugin for automatic sync with ms outlook:) - and it’s free)

6)From the drop down list u can either select .csv or .ldif or .vcf format. I’ve just selected .csv because i was transferring the address book into MS outlook.

That’s it - just save that .csv file on ur desktop and import it into your program of choice.

Mission accomplished.

P.S> plaxo.com kick’s ass. I was so f**cking happy to find it cuz otherwise - I’d have to manually transfer 450 contacts.

Plaxo is great. Helped me recover my lost email addresses from AOL. Thanks