transferring "group" from my address book to someone else's

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transferring "group" from my address book to someone else's

Recently, I was attempting to send another Mac user a group of contacts from my address book. I exported them and then emailed the export to my friend. However, when she went to import them, she got a message saying that by doing this, she would be overwriting her current address book; something we don't want to do. Any suggestions?

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Russ

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Apr 14, 2009 7:54 AM

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varjak paw

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Apr 14, 2009 8:27 AM in response to ahreff

I'm guessing that you exported as an Address Book Archive. If so, then it will indeed overwrite an existing Address Book file. If you want to send contacts to someone to incorporate into an existing Address Book, export your contacts as VCard. Those can be imported to an Address Book without erasing the existing contacts.

Hope this helps.

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ahreff Author

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Apr 14, 2009 12:06 PM in response to varjak paw

Dave, thank you. I tried that and it worked for one card at a time. Is there a way to export around 400 contacts all at once via vCards or do you have to do each one individually?

Thanks.
Russ

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varjak paw

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Apr 14, 2009 12:45 PM in response to ahreff

When I selected several contacts and exported, they exported as a single VCards.vcf file containing multiple contacts. So unless there's something unusual about my copy of Address Book, you should be able to mass-select the contacts you wish to export, select Export as VCard, and get a single file.

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