I'm trying to help a friend damsel in distress get away from AOL. One problem she's got is that her life -- mail, addressbook, files, etc., are stored in AOL's proprietary file format(s).

Among my problems is that I'm not very familiar with AOL, and don't know what's involved here. I suspect the main concerns are "Favorites" (aka bookmarks), mailbox(es), and (possibly) stored attachments (though I suspect these are stored seperately as files).

I've dug around a bit but not really found much in the way of helpful tools. There's a service which promises to do something with a "PFC" (Personal Filing Cabinet), but this is a "[link|http://www.pwcrack.com/pfc/pfc.html|send us your data, we'll send it back to you]" kind of thing.

One option I'd consider is simply mailing the stuff to an address as attachments, forwards, bounces, etc., and letting mail protocols and/or tools at the other end handle the splitting.

Anyone here got experience with this?

TIA.