Importing an ldif address book?

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Importing an ldif address book?

Hello All,

I am trying to see if 10.6 allows for importing .ldif address books. As far as I can tell this function has been removed.

In 10.5 I was able to do this using the import function which gave a person the choice of ldif, vcard, text file, or address book archive.

Does the option to import an ldif file live somewhere else? or is it totally removed?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.1), 2GB RAM

Posted on Oct 28, 2009 3:32 PM

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Answer 1

V.K.

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Oct 28, 2009 3:35 PM in response to Lovell Mcilwain

no, it should still work. they just removed a separate submenu for it. but if you go to File menu->import and select to import and ldif file it should work.

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Answer 2

Oct 28, 2009 7:20 PM in response to V.K.

Thanks V.K. for your response. I noticed that when I selected my .ldif file, the address book app wanted to wipe my address book entirely and use the import file.

Is there a way I can have it do a check on the current addresses I have like the 10.5 import process?

I just want to update my address book not over write it entirely 😟

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V.K.

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Oct 28, 2009 7:23 PM in response to Lovell Mcilwain

hmm, not sure if there is a built in way to do that. i suggest you try this online converter
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/maeder/mailtool.php

and convert youyr ldif file to a vcrad. then just drop it onto the address book. this will simply add the contacts, without removing the existing ones.

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Answer 4

Oct 28, 2009 7:31 PM in response to V.K.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately its a lot of work addresses so it would be hard for me to single out which ones actually needed to be converted. At least if they had the 10.5 way of doing it I could just use the file and it would decide which were duplicates and I could decide to not import them.

Hmm if not a way to do that possible a step backwards for snow leopard. I hope that isn't the case.

Thanks for your help though V.K. 🙂

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