Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I have several contacts associated with a company. The company is now operating under a new name. Is there an efficient method by which to do a global “find/replace” to change the company name field across multiple contacts?
(I saw a chain from 2012 with the same question and suboptimal solution. Hoping there have been improvements in the past decade.)
Suggestions?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.5
Nope.
Not short of extracting everything to a vCard VCF file via iCloud Contacts (select all, then export), and finding and using a tool (maybe BBEdit, vim, etc?) to globally edit that file, then select-all in your contacts again in iCloud and delete all, then re-import the edited vCard.
I’d want about three backups before trying this, and probably also some testing using a not-being-used-for-Contacts Apple ID.
Nope.
Not short of extracting everything to a vCard VCF file via iCloud Contacts (select all, then export), and finding and using a tool (maybe BBEdit, vim, etc?) to globally edit that file, then select-all in your contacts again in iCloud and delete all, then re-import the edited vCard.
I’d want about three backups before trying this, and probably also some testing using a not-being-used-for-Contacts Apple ID.
Edit data across multiple contacts
