How to Back Up Contacts Files
Contacts are important. Not only are they the heart and soul of any business, but they're important to your personal life too. Whether you use a web-based email service or a desktop client such as Microsoft Office Outlook, backing up your contacts is a good way of ensuring you don't lose the email addresses, phone numbers and other contact information that keeps you connected with friends and family. After all, no one wants to ask everyone for contact information they already had.
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Instructions
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Open the email program on your computer, or your email program of choice online.
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Open your contacts.
In Mozilla Thunderbird, click "Tools" and then "Address Book."
In Outlook or Outlook Express, click "Contacts."
In Gmail, click "Contacts."
In Yahoo Mail, click "Contacts."
In Windows Live Hotmail, click "Contact list."
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Export your contacts to CSV, a cross-platform file format designed for the storage of contacts.
In Mozilla Thunderbird, click "Tools" and then "Export." Be sure to save the file as "CSV" and to save it to your desktop.
In Outlook or Outlook Express, click "File" and then "Import and Export." Follow the steps of the wizard, being sure to export as a CSV file and to save the file to the desktop.
In Gmail, click "Export," and then select "Outlook CSV" and click "Export." Download the file to your desktop.
In Yahoo Mail, click "Import/Export," and then click the "Export" button beside "Microsoft Outlook." Be sure to download the file to your desktop.
In Microsoft Live Hotmail, click "Manage" followed by "Export." Download the resulting CSV file to your desktop.
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Drag the CSV file from your desktop to the backup medium of your choice---be it an external hard drive, a flash drive, a network drive or a CD.
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