162931 - can't import Address Book from Eudora

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 182174

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Jeesun Cho]

can't import Address Book from Eudora
Platform: Mac OSX

stpes:
1. Go to Tools|Import
2. Select Address Books and hit next
3. Choose Eudora and hit next
4. Choose ~Documents/Eudora Folder/Nicknames Folder and hit select
5. You'll see "No Address books were found" msg

Comment 1

[Jeesun Cho]

Ninoschka, could you try this bug and see if you can reproduce it?

Comment 2

[Jeesun Cho]

Marina, you didn't see this problem on macosx?

Comment 3

[marina]

i've seen that on Mac OSX also.

Comment 4

[marina]

*** Bug 176339 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Vincent Nicolas]

Confirming the bug.
Import utility on MacOs X / Eudora does... nothing right.
(can not import settings or mail either, with message "no xxx found in
directory). Trying to select files is impossible because they are "disabled")

Comment 6

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

I'm going to dup this against 182174 because that one has some technical
discussion about a fix for this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182174 ***

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

ninoschka informed me that for this to work, you need to select the
"~Documents/Eudora Folder" folder, not "~Documents/Eudora Folder/Nicknames"
folder, as previously thought.

Comment 8

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.

I also logged bug# 208181 which asks for the Import dialog to have a Help
button. This help button could explain to the user that they need to select the
Eudora Folder (not the Nicknames folder) when importing the Eudora Address Book.