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Dartmouth Guy · 2003-01-19 3:41 am

A friend just got a cool new iMac, and all is going well for him, except he's got his old address book from his Win98 exported as a .csv and he can't import it into his Mac OS X Address Book.

I'm clueless as well, since Address Book seems to want import vCards, but not much else.

Any ideas?

thanks!

DG

guet · 2003-01-19 5:53 am

have you tried just dragging the entries out of the windows address book - this should create a bunch of vcards that you can then transfer to the mac and drag into addressbook.app

Dartmouth Guy · 2003-01-19 6:01 pm

oddly enough, his address book is in MS Works format, not address book. so all i got to work with his ability to export it in text formats, either tab delimited or comma separated.

and Mac OS X AB doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with either...

MacAddict4Life · 2003-01-19 6:04 pm

Use Palm Desktop or Microsoft Entourage as an intermediate? You could download the free Palm Desktop, import his files into that, and export as vCard. ^_^

Dartmouth Guy · 2003-01-20 8:52 pm

that sounds just crazy enough to work...

reh · 2003-01-20 10:19 pm

I used the Mozilla address book as an intermediate.

Forums | MacLife

#1 2003-01-19 3:41 am

Importing into Address book, need a little help.

#2 2003-01-19 5:53 am

Re: Importing into Address book, need a little help.

#3 2003-01-19 6:01 pm

Re: Importing into Address book, need a little help.

#4 2003-01-19 6:04 pm

Re: Importing into Address book, need a little help.

#5 2003-01-20 8:52 pm

Re: Importing into Address book, need a little help.

#6 2003-01-20 10:19 pm

Re: Importing into Address book, need a little help.

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