Problem importing CSV or tab-delimited file into Address Book

I am trying to import a text file (tab delimited) or csv file into address book. The files are created in Excel and consist 8 columns with address info (first name, last name, street, city etc). For the sake of simplicity, the file only contains 2 records - so all in all 3 rows with data where the first row contains the headers as described above.
I am perfectly able to import the fields first name, last name using Address Book's text import feature. However, as soon as I try to map Address Book's address field (Home, work or other) to my text file's headers, the import wizard stops responding. I can still scroll through the records with the left and right error, but the record count is screwed up ("-3 of 2") and clicking the OK button doesn't result in anything.
So I am able to import the names but not the addresses - so I better rename the Address Book to Name Book
Any clue of what's going wrong?

I've been wrestling with the exact same problem. I have come to a solution, though serendipitously. The address variables belong to a group say address Office.
1 - I creted a column with address Office which clued in AddressBook the the existence of the data for +address Other+ (and it assigned the columns ot the proper data)
2 - address book does have an entry of address with all group elements of same colour, normally. I reassign address other to address office
3 - I also assign address office (in right-hand column) to address office.
At this point I have two groups of address office
4 - I indicate to the second group 'do not import'
5 - Then hit OK
It seems that this loop is necessary to instantiate the proper group name to the group of variables. Why? who knows. Bad UI? Clearly. Apple engineers should've thought about it before? no kidding...

Similar Messages

  • Importing a .xls tab delimited file into number

    Hi there... I downloaded a .xls document from the internet and attempted to open it in Numbers. The following import problem presented itself:
    Import Warning - This is a tab delimited document, not a valid Excel document. The data might look different.
    Indeed the data does look different- all of the formatting is visible, and the document is essentially unusable. Is there a way to convert this sort of document into something that can be used in Numbers?
    Thanks

    I opened the document in Text Edit, but was unable to convert tab to commas... here is a clip from the original document when it is opened in both TextEdit and Numbers
    <table border="1">
    <!-- <tr><td colspan = "15" valign="middle" align="center">Date: 2/15/2008</td></tr>-->

  • Trouble importing contacts from a tab-delimited file into Contacts on 10.9.5

    I am having Trouble importing contacts from a tab-delimited file into Contacts on MacBook Pro, OS 10.9.5, Intel 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo., 400GB drive, 4GB memory DDR3
    So far I have:
    - Followed closely the help screen in Contacts app
    - Modified my source document meticulously - first in MS Word, then copied and tweaked in Apple's "Text Edit" app
    - The problem arises when I go to access the document for import.  Specifically, the target document, and all others in that file, are "greyed out" and thus can't be "opened" to facilitate the import process
    - Tried changing the extension of the document name to ".txt", ".rtf", and ".rtd". No change or improvement.
    - Searched Apple.com/help and found nothing relevant
    Can anyone offer some advice or tell me what I may be overlooking in this process?
    Any help will be greatly appreciated!
    Thanks,
    <Email Edited By Host>

    Hi Rammohan,
    Thanks for the effort!
    But I don't need to use GUI upload because my functionality does not require to fetch data from presentation server.
    Moreover, the split command advised by you contains separate fields...f1, f2, f3... and I cannot use it because I have 164 fields.  I will have to split into 164 fields and assign the values back to 164 fields in the work area/header line.
    Moreover I have about 10 such work areas.  so the effort would be ten times the above effort! I want to avoid this! Please help!
    I would be very grateful if you could provide an alternative solution.
    Thanks once again,
    Best Regards,
    Vinod.V

  • Feature request : import of multi-line notes in CSV or tab-delimited file

    This is a feature request to the AddressBook development team:
    Following a question posted here and asked to support (thanks to Barry and Julia from ADC), it turns out that AddressBook is not ready yet to import multi-line notes from a CSV or tab-delimited file.
    I would like to kindly suggest the AddressBook development team to update the import methods for such flat files to parse the text of what is assigned to the Notes field, and convert documented escape sequences to their pre-determined corresponding special character.
    I would think that the following would be pretty easy to implement, and easy for the targeted audience (enthousiasts power-users and up) to remember:
    "\n " : mark a new line (same as ^p in Word)
    "\t " : replace by a tab
    I would keep the trailing space to avoid problems with DOS-type file path problems.
    and of course...
    "\\n " and "\\t " for whoever would want to import notes about \n and \t
    For example, in a Notes column, the text:
    "Escape sequence \\n :\n move the text to a new line\n \n while escape sequence \\t :\t move the text to the next horizontal tab"
    would give the following (just consider text between <Note> marks):
    <Note>
    Escape sequence \n:
    move the text to a new line
    while escape sequence \t: move the text to the next horizontal tab
    </Note>
    Thanks for reading...
    Frédéric Denis

    The developers do not necessarily read these USER discussion pages. If you want to make suggestions and know they will be read (which is at least a step towards implementation) use the OS X feedback page.
    AK

  • Importing data from tab delimited file

    Hi everyone,
    This is my first question on here so I hope I am doing the right thing.
    I've searched online as much as I can to find an answer or a way to fix my problem but I have not been able to find a resolution.
    My issue is I'm trying to import name and contact information from a excel file, that I have saved as a tab delimited file, into a fillable PDF file. I'm able select the text file through the import option and it shows the correct information as different rows that I can import but when I select one and click on to finish the import of the data I get an error message advising that some of the text could not be imported. The issue is nothing is being imported at all.
    I've made sure that all the relevant fields are the same name as what the form has but still cannot get anything to import.
    Does anyone have any ideas why this may not be working? Also I basically have no ability to write JavaScript to import the information otherwise I would look at travelling down that path.
    Please let me know if I need to be any more specific.
    Regards,
    Adam

    Ok I can share the form itself and will need to quickly create some data itself to go along with it
    PDF Form Shared Files - Acrobat.com 
    Here is the tab delimited file I am trying to use (well the format anyway).
    Test Data File Shared Files - Acrobat.com
    Adam
    Thanks Pat Willener

  • Importing .wab file into address book or anywhere else on my mac

    Hello all,
    I'm trying to import a Windows .wab file into Address Book (or anywhere else on my Mac for that matter) but can't find a way to make the two like eachother.
    I got the file from someone else and do not have a Windows computer to use in the process.
    Any suggestion would be most welcome!

    Unfortunately those files are in a format unknown to any Mac application. What you may try is this utility but I do not know that it will convert only the .wab file, but it's supposed to be able to convert Outlook data to an OS X readable format.
    In the future be aware that Outlook data files are incompatible with OS X. Have your Windows friends export their data files in a readable format such as Comma or Tab delimited text files.

  • Import tab delimited file into pdfs

    I have a tab delimited file with 1000's of rows. I want to complete a form and save it for each row. Rather than using the importData() function by itself and manually going through each record I would like to automate this so it will fill out a form for each row and save a copy of each. I have a little experience in acrobat javascript, but some knowledge of building the form and adding javascript.

    You can use the doc.importTextData method to import a row of data into the form and then use the doc.extractPages method to save to a new file, clear the form, and repeat the process for each row.
    importTextData: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.502.html
    extractPages: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.465.html
    Note that the return codes for importTextData in the documentation are wrong. The positive values should be negative and vice versa.

  • Script to import contacts from CSV file into Address Book

    Hi,
    I am wondering if it would be possible to import contacts from a CSV file into a group in Address Book using applescript, and if so, if anyone is aware of a script that does this or something similar.
    I have a CSV file with three columns 'First Name', 'Last Name' and 'Email Address'.  I would like these to correspond with  'First', 'Last' and (Work) 'Email' in Address Book.
    Ideally the script would also check to see if entries already exist for the people being imported, but this is less crucial.
    Thanks in advance for any assistance,
    Nick

    Hi,
    Test this on a very small csv file (four or five contacts) to see if it works for you. It will not de-duplicate. You don't give the name of the group, so you'll need to replace Name of group in the second line with your group name, enclosed in double quotes.
    --begin script
    set the_people to read (choose file with prompt "Choose your CSV file")
    set the_group to "Name of group"
    set old_tids to AppleScript's text item delimiters
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ","
    set par_count to (count paragraphs in the_people)
    repeat with x from 1 to par_count
              set next_par to paragraph x of the_people
              set first_name to text item 1 of next_par
              set last_name to text item 2 of next_par
              set e_mail to text item 3 of next_par
              tell application "Address Book"
                        set nu_person to make new person with properties {first name:first_name, last name:last_name}
      make new email at end of emails of nu_person with properties {label:"Work", value:e_mail}
                        add nu_person to group the_group
      save
              end tell
    end repeat
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to old_tids
    --end script
    Watch out for bad line breaks in the lines beginning "set nu_person..." and "make new email..."

  • Problems Importing a PageMaker 6.52 file into FrameMaker 9

    I have an 11-year old file that I need to import into either InDesign CS5 or FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7. The file was originally done on a Mac, so it had no extension. I have tried adding the .PM6 extension, but when that didn't work, I tried the .P65 extension. I know from the PDF properties that the file was done in PageMaker 6.52, but I don't have PageMaker, and neither does the original author at this point.
    When I try to impor the file into FrameMaker 9, I get this message: "The filter encountered an error and could not complete the translation."
    When I try to import the file into InDesign CS5, I get this message: "The PageMaker document is damaged and cannot be recovered." (Note that I am using CS5, not CS2, so the issues I've seen posts about should not apply.)
    I could try converting the PDF, but I'd like to get this file converted if that is possible.
    I am posting this in the InDesign forum as well to see if they may have any insights.
    Tammy

    Tammy,
    The file might actually be damaged. If you have the PDF, then you can try exporting as RTF from that and re-build it in FM. The layout models are different between FM and PM, so you'd have to do some clean-up anyway. As long you can get the content into FM, then you can tweak your layouts as required.

  • Can't import the address part of a text file into Address Book

    I am trying to import from a text file. It simply will not let me hit OK if I try to import the address information but works fine if I omit the address.
    Any ideas? Getting very frustrated.
    Schmleff

    I exported my database in a tab delimited format from palm desktop on a windows machine.
    I clicked import from the address book menu, selected "from text file". It opens the import window as you would expect it to. I begin to align the data with the proper fields. If I ignore all address information, it imports just fine, but obviously with no addresses. If I try to align any address information at all, it will not let me click ok. the button clicks, but does nothing. If I unselect the address info again, its imports. No directions are available to guide me and everything looks like it should work. Begining to feel like Im in windoze world again.

  • Import .msg files into address book

    Hi, apple users out there.
    When I bought my new MacBook, people at the apple store transferred all my data from my old PC to the laptop. For some reason, the addresses in Outlook were the only exceptions. Now I am trying to do it myself, but having trouble with it.
    My husband managed to extract them from Outlook in a .msg format. Mac is not happy and won't open it in the address book nor any other application.
    Any ideas how to get these addresses into the Address Book without having to type all 200 of them?
    Thanx!

    My husband managed to extract them from Outlook in a .msg format
    Contacts/Addresses are not message (.msg) files.
    Search Google for: outlook contacts to apple address book and you'll find many ways to do it.

  • Safari not loading vCard file into Address Book

    Sorry, this question should probably fall under the Safari Forum but for some reason the "Post New Thread" link doesn't display in that section for me. Any idea why. Anyways, I have a link on my site to link to a .vcf (vCard) file. But when I click on the file using Safari, Safari loads the .vcf file content into the browser rather than opening the .vcf file into my Address Book. When I try to download the file, the file is converted from filename.vcf to filename.vcf.txt. Any idea why and how to get around this problem?

    > for some reason the "Post New Thread" link doesn't display in that section for me.
    You’re probably trying to post in a category (i.e. a group of forums). You must go to a specific forum in that category to be able to post there.

  • Importing Mac OS 9/Multiple Users/Netscape 4.8 addresses into Address Book

    Hello there,
    my wife has made the leap from Mac OS 9.2.2 to Mac OS X 10.4.3, and we're trying to figure out how to import her Netscape 4.8 addresses into Address Book. The complicating factor is that her computer ran with Multiple Users under Mac OS 9; as the Classic environment doesn't seem to be able to run as a particular Mac OS 9 "Multiple User", we're unable to run Netscape within the Classic environment as her "Multiple User" to allow the export of her addresses for subsequent importation by Address Book. We did find an existing LDIF file on the hard drive at Users:her user:Preferences:Netscape Users:her e-mail:Contacts Export.ldif that we were able to import, but it didn't seem to contain a complete set of her addresses.
    Can you recommend a way to obtain her full set of addresses? Do you know which Netscape file contains the addresses? If need be, that file can be copied, selectively edited, and its addresses can be manually reëntered; but naturally a less time-consuming solution would be preferable. Alternatively, would it be possible to run within the Classic environment as a particular "Multiple User", so that the addresses could be exported within Netscape?
    Thanks for your assistance!
    Sheepnose
      Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

    Here’s a summary of what I wound up doing. I downloaded the current version of Netscape for Mac OS X at http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.2/mac/macosx/sea/Netscape-MachO. dmg.gz and used it to import the addresses from the Users:her user:Preferences:Netscape Users:her e-mail:pab.na2 file. (It turns out that the pab.na2 file has the latest address book data.) This was done by cancelling the New Account Setup, then choosing Tools/Import …/Address Books/Communicator 4.x. I then exported the just-imported data by going to Netscape 7.2’s Address Book window, selecting the “nab” address book, and choosing Tools/Export … in LDIF format, followed shortly by importing the newly created LDIF file into Address Book. Unfortunately the groups didn’t survive the exodus, and had to be manually reässembled within Address Book. There also seemed to be minor data loss in Notes fields — namely, all Notes text following a colon went missing. However, that was readily worked around by restoring via copy/paste from Netscape 7.2 to Address Book. Given these caveats, the Netscape 4.8 address book data have now been reconstituted as Address Book data. I hope that this summary might prove useful to anyone else who might be facing a similar task, and would appreciate it if anyone who finds an easier way to do this would post their findings.
    Sheepnose

  • Import text into a form from a tab delimited file using an action

    Good evening.
    I am using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro
    I have been working all weekend so far on this, and have tried many options.
    What I am wanting is to import a line of data from an excel file into a form, save the file with a name drived from the form fields, close the new file, then go back to the original file, import a line of data, and so on and so on.
    I had all of this working in livecyle with a tool, but now that we are going to Windows 8 and Microsoft Office 2013, the driver that I need to load the excel file into the form is not available--so now I have to redo the forms in Adobe and import using a tab delimited file.
    I would like to do this with an action.
    Thus far, I have the following.
    **Credit goes to George Johnson who helped me with the script to save the file using field names a few months ago**
    To start, I have a folder level script
    mySaveAs = app.trustPropagatorFunction(function(doc,path)
    app.beginPriv();
    var myDoc = event.target;
    myDoc.saveAs(path);
    app.endPriv();
    myTrustedSpecialTaskFunc = app.trustedFunction(function(doc,path)
    //privileged and/or non-privileged code above
    app.beginPriv();
    mySaveAs(doc, path);
    app.endPriv
    //Privileged and/or non-privileged code below
    For the Action, I start with the Form file loaded
    Then I execute a javascript to import the text into the file.
    this.importTextData("/c/data/clerical.txt");
    The next step is to save the file using field names as part of the file name
    --credit goes to George Johnson who assisted me with this on a similar project a few months ago.
    //Get the Field Value
    var fn=getField("Last").valueAsString + "-" + getField("First").valueAsString;
    //Specify the folder
    var fldr = "/c/data/";
    //Determine the full path
    var fp=fldr + fn + ".pdf";
    //save the file
    myTrustedSpecialTaskFunc(this, fp);
    That is as far as I have gotten. 
    What I want to do now is load the original form file, import the next line into the form, save the file, repeat.
    If anyone could assist me, I would greatly appreciate it.
    **note  I had to type this from my I-pad because I kept getting kicked off the internet from my computer.  I hope my code is typed correctly.

    George
    Thank you so much for your response.
    Yes--there are multiple lines in the data file--it will vary from month to month.  It looks like from what you are saying is that I need to do the global variable since it will constantly change, and then increment it as it goes through the text file.  When it reaches the end, then it will stop.
    I looked at the following links--but this is from Adobe 9 API--I don't know if things have changed with XI--especially since 9 used batch processing and XI has actions.
    Count PDF Files
    http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/ wwhelp.htm?href=JS_API_AcroJS.88.1.html
    Global counter
    http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/ wwhelp.htm?href=JS_API_AcroJS.88.1.html
    I am not exactly sure how to include this in my code.
    If you could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

  • How do you import multiple sets of tab delimited text into your form?

    Is there an easy way to bring in form data from a text file of data values(tab delimited) with multiple instances of each variable?   In my current project, I would like to bring name, address, phone, etc data from the text file for a couple hundred people into a PDF form which I create and format to my given specs.  I know I can import the text and select which instance of the variable I want to populate the similarly named fields, but I was wondering if I could appropriately name or create the various fields in the form so that it would auto populate each subsequent instance of the variables with the next line of data?.  In this case, I want to end up with a nicely formatted address book.
    Thanks!

    It is possible but not just a simple import of data.
    Each form field in the multiple page PDF would need a unique name not repeated on another page of the PDF. Fortunately the Acrobat form standard includes the "template" object and this object can be spawned or used to add a new page with the form fields automatically renamed with a prefix string of the page number and template added to each form field on the new page. So if one were to import a row from your tab delimited file into the template, one could then spawn a new page from the template with the data and rename the fields so there would be no conflict of like named fields.
    A Lesson in Templates for Adobe Acrobat by Dave Wraight
    With newer versions of Acrobat there is a mail merge feature.
    Create PDFs from Word mail merges

Maybe you are looking for

  • Connecting both a PC and Mac to one iPod???

    We have a fifth gen ipod. It's been formatted to a PC for my husband's iTunes. I added photos last night from my 12 inch Powerbook. The transfer went fine - it asked if I wanted to sync the iPod up with Powerbook and I said, no. I selected the iPhoto

  • Illustrator CS3 Import and Export File Format list?

    Hello, Has anyone typed up an updated supported import and export file format list for CS3? I used to reference a support knowledgebase document, 1001741, (no longer on Adobe's site) that showed the majority of file formats and versions that Illustra

  • Embed an iframe/webpage in Reporting Services 2012

    Hi all, is it possible to embed an iframe or webpage in Reporting Services 2012 (such as CustomReportItem, Textbox with HTML content,...) Thanks in advance

  • DB startup failed

    Hi All, I am getting the following error when starting the server: IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 13: Permission Denied R3trans: connect check finished with error code 12 ora 27121 DB startup failed What is to be done? Plz help me with this. Regards

  • Radio App in Mac OS?

    Why is there no built-in radio apps that comes with Mac OS software?