Need Help to Export the Contacts Notes

Ive moved to a new laptop.
When installing the latest EM client on the new laptop none of the notes for each contact that were on the old laptop are present on the new laptop after syncing with Gmail.
I used File/Export/Export Contacts to export notes to .ics files.
But when selecting the export folder and executing the export, there is no file present in the selected folder, its empty.
How do I export notes from the old PCs EM Client with the older EM client to the new PC with latest EM client?
There are about 350 contacts with notes so Im desperate to find a way to get these transferred to the new EM Client.

thank you