[Wiltshire] Moving to Linux

[John Carlyle-Clarke]

On 03/02/10 11:00, David Fletcher wrote:
> I've got another acquaintance who's tired of windoze and wants to give Linux a
> try. The plan is to take an old computer there as a loan machine tomorrow and
> see if I can get her set up with it.
>
> To make it as easy as possible to make the move, I'd like to be able to import
> her address book. kaddressbook says it can import "MS Exchange Personal
> Address Book (.PAB)" files. She's running Vista Home Basic.
>
> Does anybody know, am I likely to find such a .PAB file on her computer and
> where?
>
>    
In some of those Windows migration cases, the best route is to use the 
Windows version of Thunderbird, since it seems to be able to import 
contacts and mail from most common Windows clients.  Thunderbird shares 
the same profile format between its Windows and Linux versions, so once 
you have gone from {Outlook,Outlook Express,Windows Mail,Windows Live 
Mail} to Thunderbird for Windows, you can then copy the profile to your 
Linux install and point the Linux Thunderbird at it.

Also, Thunderbird uses a standard format (mbox IIRC?) that other clients 
can read too, but that probably doesn't help you on the contacts.