The holiday vacation brought me the family computer problems. One of the main issues was getting my father in-law out of the black hole known as AOL. I can rant for hours about how difficult they make it, it’s obvious they’re goal is to make it impossible. It’s obvious why, since the poor old grand/fathers will give up and stay.
Exporting Favorites:
- Export your favorites - favorites > manage > backup
- Upload the .pfc file to this free online service
- It will give you an .htm file that you can import into firefox
Exporting your Address Book
Couldn’t find any solution that worked, so I was forced to use plaxo.com. I would never recommend plaxo but it’s pretty simple, just add a sync point export them in any format you’d like.
Exporting local E-mail
- Export/Backup the local email folders to a .pcf file. Or find the .pcf (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\C_America Online 9.0c\organize)
- Download AOL Dump
- Start AOL-Dump and select DATEI -> PFC Konvertieren
The program create an mbx that you can be used with Thunderbird, I used Thunderbird to import the email to gmail through an IMAP connection.
- Download Thunderbird
- Rename the file.mbx file (just created) to file - basically, remove the extension
- Copy/move the file to the Thunderbird message folder (find it under TOOLS -> Account Settings)
- Start Thunderbird and a new folder will show your email.
I just ended up copying these emails to a new folder under the gmail IMAP.
It took way to long but AOL has one less user and he’s FREE!!
