Next, migration from address book 10.4 to address book 10.6

In my experience, although not tested recently, it should work as you have tried, except I don't think you should transplant the plist.

Ernie

It shouldn't. Make sure the addressbook.data (not sure if that is the correct name) file is the only thing in the AddressBook folder when you run Address Book. It should convert that file to the new format (individual cards in the metadata folder). You can then get rid of the .data file.

You could also trick it into thinking it is an address book archive by adding .abbu to the name of the AddressBook folder you copied from the old Mac. I don't know what it will do when you double-click on it, but if that doesn't work, try Import from Address Book File menu and point to the old addressbook folder.

I just tried what you did and it worked fine.

First, go into the 10.6 Application Support folder and delete the AddressBook folder. Then, copy the 10.4 AddressBook folder into App Support. Start Address Book.

If that doesn't work, I can only imagine that it doesn't like the file for some reason. The .previous files may have all (or most of) your contacts and work. Just rename a copy from .previous to .data.

Yeah. When address Book finds the .abcddb file, it ignores the .data file. You have to remove the index file (.abcddb) and it should work. As I stated, the .data file is no longer used once it converts it to the index and metadata.