How to move your address book on the MacIntosh

If you are like me you don't like to create a special backup or export file for every application. You just backup the entire hard drive to an external hard drive. This does add a few steps towards recovery of your address book when you upgrade to a new computer.

To recover your address book, you will need to do the following.

Go into your external hard drive and locate these files

Users/youraccount/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
Users/youraccount/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist

Copy these files to the equivalent location on your new Mac.

From your backup, copy this directory

Users/youraccount/Library/ApplicationSupport/AddressBook

to the equivalent location on your new mac.

You are done.
Hope this helps.