Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: <snip> > Lanny, if you are concerned about data loss, you could install a local imap > server (over wich you'll can do all the backups that you like) and keep it in > sync with google with imapsync (rpmforge repository). > Looks simple and straightforward to do: > > http://nivox.blogspot.com/2008/02/gmail-imap-backup.html I just discovered that the mbox files are *not* the problem! Exporting my Address book from Evolution is not intuitively obvious. I found a web page from May 2006, that says: "Export the evolution address book with the evolution-addressbook-export utility in csv format" and it said to use this command: /usr/lib/evolution/2.X/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv > contacts.csv but I cannot find evolution-addressbook-export there. I have been using Evolution for years, because Upstream defaults to it, but YUK..... I am moving to Thunderbird and I am not going to look back. I will keep searching, for a hopefully simple way to Export my contacts from Evolution, so I can Import them into Thunderbird..... :-)