Comments on: New & improved import contacts feature

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:03:09 +0000

@Brenda – Are you adding him with the correct Yahoo! ID? Check with your friend to make sure you have the right one. Then I would recommend removing them from your list and re-adding them. When the “Are you sure you want to remove?” dialog shows up, check the box to remove them from your address book too. If you don’t want to do that, go to http://address.yahoo.com and clear out the messenger ID field for that contact.

Sarah Bacon

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:20:28 +0000

I have a question concerning Add request pending, I got my friend’s add request and added him, but he can’t find my add request, and it still says “add request pending” on my list. Where can I direct him to go to find my add request? I have deleted and added him twice now, and he still isn’t getting the add request? I am thinking it may have been blocked by a pop up blocker? Can anyone help me???

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:40:22 +0000

I don’t like the new mail contacts list. I don’t see well as it is and am somewhat color blind. The new list is smaller and some information is in light blue or green. Can I get the old one back?
Lrry

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:02:53 +0000

@Ken – Sorry you were having problems with it. It’s showing up this morning so give it another try. If you’re still having issues, let me know. http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite

Sarah Bacon

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:41:49 +0000

The Import Contacts window is blank. Sugestions?

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:26:35 +0000

@avi,

If you use the import contacts feature on our website at http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite, whatever friends you add or invite via that process will apply to your usage of the Mac client as well. E.g. if you add a friend in the import contact tool, it will appear in your Mac contact list as well. Hope that helps,

Sarah Bacon

By: avi

avi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:38:42 +0000

umm..does anyone know how to import all your contacts from your address book online, to yahoo messenger FOR A MAC???

the comments above seem to detail how to do so for messenger 9.0 for pcs, but what about messenger 3.0 for macs??

any ideas??

By: doomed

doomed — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:18:55 +0000

Ok using yahoo messenger 9.0.0.1912 I just tried to help a friend import their Windows Live/Hotmail contacts to yahoo messenger, saving them manually entering them one by one, now if you look at the graphic it shoiws a whole host of email sources including HotmailWindows Live. When I first started using yahoo messenger it allowed me to import friends from windows messenger via my hotmail address book, now when I or my friend (located in another country) click “import contacts” option in the contacts menu the panel that opens only shows Yahoo!7 Mail/ Address book, and Microsoft Outlook, an MS program that hasn’t worked with hotmail for quite sometime, what happened to all the other providers that we used to be able to import from, I’m using the localised Aussie version, yet my friend is in the UK, and I assume not using the Aussie one, but we botgh only get Yahoo mail and Outlook as options, unlike the illustration on this page, or I used to be able to? what’s up with that? kind of sucks manually adding 100 people manually 1 by one. What happened to the other options?????

By: Prax

Prax — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:37:51 +0000

this is NOT GOOD it doesn’t import the contacts . every time i press import contacts it comes up with an error and says check back in a few hours …… so i currently have no contacts in my messenger list , i just want to put all the contacts from my address book into messenger but its not working .

I’m having the same problem. I get only two options for importing contacts Outlook & Y! Add book (I wonder why?) If I select Y! after selecting the contacts it says to check back in few hours, even though I must have tried this atleast on ten different days.

If I try Outlook,it goes on with the import process. I once left it for 3 hours like that. No result.

By: bj

bj — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:04:35 +0000

yahoo should fix this.

i think messenger cannot handle adding a whole list of contacts simultaneously. maybe 4 or 5 at a time, yes.

there should be a WORKING feature to easily transfer all contacts from one account to another.