Moving AOL

AOL makes it almost impossible to get your Favorites and Addresses and save
them to put on a new machine. They're doing it to try and stop you from leaving
AOL and going to another provider by making it hard. Here's one article I
found that might be helpful. I'd just leave a link but it's too small to read.

The holiday vacation brought me the family computer problems. One of the main issues was getting my father in-law out of the black hole known as AOL. I can rant for hours about how difficult they make it, it’s obvious they’re goal is to make it impossible. It’s obvious why, since the poor old grand/fathers will give up and stay.

Exporting Favorites:

* Export your favorites - favorites > manage > backup
* Upload the .pfc file to this free online service
* It will give you an .htm file that you can import into firefox

Exporting your Address Book

Couldn’t find any solution that worked, so I was forced to use plaxo.com. I would never recommend plaxo but it’s pretty simple, just add a sync point export them in any format you’d like.

Exporting local E-mail

* Export/Backup the local email folders to a .pcf file. Or find the .pcf (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\C_America Online 9.0c\organize)
* Download AOL Dump
* Start AOL-Dump and select DATEI -> PFC Konvertieren

The program create an mbx that you can be used with Thunderbird, I used Thunderbird to import the email to gmail through an IMAP connection.

* Download Thunderbird
* Rename the file.mbx file (just created) to file - basically, remove the extension
* Copy/move the file to the Thunderbird message folder (find it under TOOLS -> Account Settings)
* Start Thunderbird and a new folder will show your email.

I just ended up copying these emails to a new folder under the gmail IMAP.

It took way to long but AOL has one less user and he’s FREE!!

From This Site

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In January, 2007 AOL was going to raise my price to around $15.00. I called and talked to some guy and told him to cancel since I couldn't pay that. We kept talking and he finally asked me if I could pay $9.95 and I said "for how long?" He said for life; so that is the reason I stay with them. They charge me each month on my credit card, automatically.

I posted it in case it would make it easy for you to get your stuff off the machine
you're using now so I can put it on the new one and it would be there for you.

I knew why you stayed with them Mom, what I couldn't understand is people who
get online on broadband now and still can't wean themselves from using AOL.

Curly got broadband from Comcast just like I have several years ago for about $48
a month and kept paying AOL $21.95 a month 'cause that's the only way he knew
to get online. He said he didn't want to lose his email there and I told him they'd
let him and anybody else keep any email they had or get a new one. He's been
off a couple of years now but still uses the old email. lynnr40@aol.com and
Diane still has AOL installed and still uses it. I don't really try to get her to change
since they're not paying anymore and she doesn't know any better.

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