Retrieve your Yahoo email contacts

 

Yahoo Email Contacts

Have you ever wanted to get your email contact list from Yahoo?

Maybe you are changing email providers and don’t want to lose your contacts that 

you have accumulated over several years. 

Maybe you just want to get away from the problems of using Yahoo email.

In any case, getting your contact list can be very labor intensive. 

Here is the fastest, simplest, and easiest way that we have found.

How to Export your Yahoo Contacts

If you want to export just your Yahoo contacts, there is a quick and easy way to do that.

1. Login to your Yahoo mail.

2. Go to the “Contacts” menu option.

3. Select “Tools”.

4. Click “Export”.

5. You will now be given the option to export to Outlook, Thunderbird, 

   vCard or as a “.CSV” file. CSV is recommended, because it is a 

   common file type that is almost universally recognized and can be 

   imported into most programs or apps that a user would want to import 

   their list of contacts.

6. Proceed to “Export” your Yahoo mail contacts.

7. Select Save File.

8. Choose the folder in which you wish to save your .CSV file.

9. Finalize the process by clicking “OK”.

This method worked when I tested it. 

Your experience might be slightly different but should be basically the same.

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This instructions directly from Yahoo Help

Import, export or print contacts in Yahoo Mail

Clean up your digital life and save up to 5000 of your contacts in one place. 

Yahoo Mail lets you import contacts from linked accounts or export your contacts as a 

digital or physical copy that can be sorted alphabetically by first or last name. 

  Note - Contacts containing special characters, like accent marks or dashes, 

will cause an import or export of your Yahoo Contacts to fail. You can remove those 

characters in Yahoo Mail by editing the contact's details.

Import from supported email providers or social accounts

1. In Yahoo Mail, click the Contacts icon .

2. Click the More options icon | Import.

3. Next to the company you want to import from, click Import.

4. Use the on-screen prompts to sign in and give Yahoo permission to import your contacts.

Import from a CSV file

1. In Yahoo Mail, click the Contacts icon .

2. Click the More options icon | Import from CSV file (5MB max).

3. Select the CSV file from the finder window.

Export or print your Yahoo Contacts

1. In Yahoo Mail, click the Contacts icon .

2. Click the More options icon .

3. Click Export (CSV) or Print.

End Yahoo Help

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If for some reason you add more contacts to your Yahoo email account you can just follow the steps above to refresh your .CSV file of contacts.