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Comment on Installing Ruby on Rails on CentOS/Redhat 4.x by Joe

Joe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:59:40 +0000

awesome, this is the only solution posted..rails should update their documentation

Comment on Installing Ruby on Rails on CentOS/Redhat 4.x by Ert

Ert — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:45:44 +0000

Brill! Another CentOS thanks!

In fact, once I got to ‘make install’, I could just head on into ‘gem update –system’

Comment 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.

Comment on Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book 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.

Comment on Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book 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.

Comment on Installing Ruby on Rails on CentOS/Redhat 4.x by Roger

Roger — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:29:44 +0000

This did the trick in CEntOS. Thank you.

Comment on Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book 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

Comment on Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book by Kevin

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

Worked like a charm – 1200 contacts – zoom!
Thanx

Comment on Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book by Robert Mc

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

Worked like a dream…thanks so much.

Comment on Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book 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!!!