I would like to send Blank vcf Cards to all my contacts ask them to comeplete and return to me. So that I can up date my contacts with complete information.
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), iOS 5.0.1
How do you propose to send them to people? Email isn't the safest way to send personal information back and forth unless you can encrypt it. If you will type encrypt in Mail help there is information there about encrypting.
I took a quick look at Contacts help section and there doesn't appear to be a way to create blank cards. I think you might have to ask them to export their information from their Contacts/address book and send it to you.
Maybe someone smarter knows how to do what you want to do.
How do you propose to send them to people? Email isn't the safest way to send personal information back and forth unless you can encrypt it. If you will type encrypt in Mail help there is information there about encrypting.
I took a quick look at Contacts help section and there doesn't appear to be a way to create blank cards. I think you might have to ask them to export their information from their Contacts/address book and send it to you.
Maybe someone smarter knows how to do what you want to do.
Eric,
I would think that many people have their computer and contacts with only email addresses. I would think
creating a simple APP. to do this would be of interest to others. Basically I would like to get correct mailing address, phone numbers, name of Company but not much more.
Carl
I have an App on my iPhone which does the work to read the Business Card (Business Card Reader) and saves the datas in the Contacts of the iphone. You may ask your friends to send you cards or a scan of the card.
Yf you teach them about this App may be some of them will start sending you the scanned data.
Thank you Walter, I am sure many of them do not know what a v Card looks like. Tha is why I was trying to send them a Blank, which would be easy to import into my contacts when they completed.
Thank you,
Carl
Understand, but as I typed above, someone smarter than I am will need to help you. 🙂
Finn Mac Cool wrote:
I would like to send Blank vcf Cards to all my contacts ask them to comeplete and return to me. So that I can up date my contacts with complete information.
You can't do what you want, a blank vcard can't be filled in without using Contacts or similar to do it and you can't save a blank card in Contacts or Address Book.
Have them send you a vcard from their own Contacts software, import that.
You can't make or send totally "blank" vCards. Some information in them is necessary.
But since you are referring to "your contacts" I suppose you have some info of them already, and if it's only their name and email address (how else could you send them anything...).
So then, take their present vCard you have of them and send it to them asking for verification and completion:
- In Contacts, either export all your contacts as vCards, or drag and drop one by one onto the desktop or into some folder.
- Compose your email and attach the vCard of the recipient. Most people will be absolutely able to open it, see and complete it, then save it and mail back to you.
When you get them back and drag them onto Contacts, you might create doubles, but deleting the old one is as simple as selecting it and hit the Delete key (or Fn-Backspace).
I think this is the answer I have been looking for. I will try this;
Your the best, thank you!
I'm not the best, but you're welcome!
I would like to send Blank vcf Cards to all my contacts ask them to comeplete and return to me. So that I can up date my contacts with complete information.
