Comments on: Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book

By: Dallas

Dallas — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:51:44 +0000

To Stuart: I had the same problem:
Hi Lucas,
“Your help to get my contacts from MS Outlook 2007 from my XP desktop into my Address folder in my Macbook would be really much appreciated.

You say to open the action menu and click Forward as vcard. But in my version of MS Outlook 2007 under the Action menu there is nothing that sais Forward as vcard, nor under any of the other menus.”

I found the work around to be that you go to the action menu and choose “Send Full Contact” then choose “In Internet Format (vCard)”

(This does the same thing as what Lucas instructions for a prior version of Outlook)

Hope this helps.

By: Nigel Demery

Nigel Demery — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:39:13 +0000

I tried the proposed method but found that not all of the fields I needed were transferred in VCF format.

I, too, had lots of problems with mapping CSV fields. Also found the Netscape 7.2 converson missed fields. Managed to get my new MacBook Pro to dump a few times – thought Macs were supposed to be immune from that!

Didn’t try the GMail option but that would have been next after Sunil’s suggestion (above) of: http://www.sillybit.com/abee/.

Worked a treat first time and even allowed me to customise the names I wanted in my fields. ALL the data went.

By: Stuart Leigh

Stuart Leigh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:23:41 +0000

Hi Lucas,
Your help to get my contacts from MS Outlook 2007 from my XP desktop into my Address folder in my Macbook would be really much appreciated.

You say to open the action menu and click Forward as vcard. But in my version of MS Outlook 2007 under the Action menu there is nothing that sais Forward as vcard, nor under any of the other menus.

If you can help me out of this dilemma, I would be most obliged to you.

Many thanks and best regards,

Stuart.

By: John M

John M — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:48:36 +0000

I found this tip on another website. You can merge all of you vCard files into one. Place all vcf files into one directory and then run this command:
copy /B *.vcf all_in_one.vcf

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:53:27 +0000

Worked like a charm – 1200 contacts – zoom!
Thanx

By: Robert Mc

Robert Mc — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:58:42 +0000

Worked like a dream…thanks so much.

By: Felipe Henao

Felipe Henao — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:59:02 +0000

This solution was great not to mention very elegant! I had a few issues doing it with my “mobile me” account so I sent them to my AOL (yes! I still use AOL for my mail) and it worked like a charm. I have to concur with previous commentes… You sir, are a genius!!!

By: Patricia A Hayes

Patricia A Hayes — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:53 +0000

After many hours trying the CVS and other exports from Outlook, the solution that worked the best was to export Outlook to GMAIL then export from GMAIL to a vfile format and import to Address Book on the Mac. It really took only minutes and I had over 500 contacts. If you have to open a Gmail account to do it, don’t hesitate it’s easy and actually their email is quite good. I switched to GMAIL after a PC disaster that wiped out all my emails. Fortunately I had save my contacts to my Blackberry and was able to restore them. Now they are on my Mac and I am one happy lady!

By: JOHN M

JOHN M — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:03:28 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD. SAVED ME HOURS!

By: kjl

kjl — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:34:50 +0000

I am a PC user with over 2000 contacts in Outlook and about 10 user-created “categories” in addition to the standard Outlook categories. It sounds like most people on this forum are transferring much smaller less complicated contact files. Apple said they can go right into MS Entourage for Macs, but the guy with whom I spoke was honest — he said Entourage crashes just as much as Outloook. Apple suggested Bento, but said that I’d have to hand-enter all the categories. Has anybody tried this? Also I’ve heard that Apple Mail can’t handle this kind of volume. Any comments, suggestions? I haven’t bought a Mac yet, and won’t unless I know this is a solvable problem.

Thanks!

Karin