Lanny Marcus wrote: <snip> > 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..... :-) Replying to myself, in case anyone else wants to escape from Evolution. It's possible to Export the Evolution Contacts in .vcf format. I did that and then I used a converter at this URL: http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/ and I converted the .vcf file to both .ldif (which I suspect will give me a better result, when I Import the data) and to .csv When I have time, I will back up this box and then I will do the Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird. :-)