But the problem with putting all your vCards in a single text document is that Address Book does not update duplicates. Then a drag and drop to Address Book, which imported my 2600 contacts in seconds.Īddress Book is capable of updating a contact when you give it a vCard of a contact it already knows.
I didn't know yet about libconv (see below), so I just opened it with Dreamweaver (where it appeared OK), and copy / pasted to a Word document that I would then save as text only.
When transfered on a Mac, all the accented characters of Uptate.vcf looked funny. Then modify the above code to respect this format. Make a fake contact in Address Book, give information for all the fields you're interested in export as vCard, drag this vCard to Text Edit and study the format. If you wanted a different vCard to export different fields or label them otherwise, here is the trick. This produced one long text file with all my contacts in it (c:Update.vcf). So I wrote my own VBScript, tailor made for the fields I wanted to export, but very easily customisable. Second, it is 2.0 format, and there are some fields Apple's Address Book would label unproperly (for instance, other address would become a work address). First, it misses a field I needed (other fax). Outlook does have a VBScript function to do so, but it is problematic. Exporting data out of outlook in vCard format:.Easily backing up a File Vault home directory.Dealing with bugs in File Vault with AppleScript.Installing FOP to process XML with XSLT stylesheets and enjoying the PDF formatting possibilities.Converting from AppleScript's text encoding (MacRoman) to unicode UTF-8 (used for XML).Getting rid of duplicates in Address Book.Importing PC-based vcards into Apple's Address Book.Exporting data out of Outlook in vcard format.
I learned quite a few things in the process. I spent a lot of time moving my contacts' info from Outlook on Windows to Address Book, and printing them out very nicely in PDF.
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