Saving and Restoring a Telephone Book

You can save a local telephone book in a file. With this file you can restore the telephone book in the same FRITZ!Box or transfer it to another FRITZ!Box.

Saving a Telephone Book

Telephone books are saved in XML files.

Instructions: Saving a Telephone Book

  1. Select "Telephony / Telephone Book".
  2. Select a telephone book.
  3. Click "Save" and save the XML file on your computer.
  4. One after the other, save each of the telephone books stored in the FRITZ!Box.

Restoring a Telephone Book

You can restore the telephone book in the same FRITZ!Box or transfer it to another FRITZ!Box.

Rules

  • Restoring the saved telephone book overwrites a telephone book in the FRITZ!Box. For this you can create a new, empty telephone book in the FRITZ!Box.
  • A saved telephone book can contain quick-dial numbers, vanity codes, and "important persons". If you would like to keep this information, the telephone book must be restored in the FRITZ!Box's first telephone book.

Instructions: Restoring a Telephone Book

  1. Select "Telephony / Telephone Book".
  2. Select the telephone book that is to be overwritten by restoring a saved telephone book.

    Important:All entries in the selected telephone book will be overwritten.

  3. Click on the "Restore" button.
  4. Click "Select File" to choose the saved telephone book (XML file).
  5. Click the "Restore Telephone Book" button.