Address Groups From Import From Now Contact

Can "Categories" in Now Contact be imported as "Group" in Apple Address Book? If so...How? Thanks

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Why can't I get my iphone to import all the email address when it imports from address book? It syncs all other info. It make we want to go back to my blackberry

Why can't I get my iphone to import all the email address when it imports from address book? It syncs all other info.
I tried over and over, there must be something I need to change.
It make we want to go back to my blackberry

Usually restoring from backup eliminated the corrupted files. However, sometimes restoring to factory settings/new iPod is required.
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Disappearing Contact Groups after Importing from another Profile

I recently had trouble with a corrupt profile in Outlook 2010 and had to build a new profile to fix the problem. I had to import the address book from a CSV file. Now in the new profile all my contact groups are gone (individual addresses are there). I
have tried to import them again with the same result. Anyone have any ideas?
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How do I move all the messages and folders in `Local Folder' to my main account folder? The stuff in local is from importing from Outlook

I imported my mail from Outlook and they went to Local Folders. I want them in the main folder section for my account. How do I move them there?
At the moment I have to create each folder and then copy the contents from one folder to the other - crazy, and I have dozens of folders

As Chgrist1 said, that is how it works. Having looked as how Outlook stores mail, and everything else. It is a wonder anything ever comes out that is useable. PST files are a mess. First thing they do is pull the email apart and store header, body and attachments is three different places.
You will also find (most likely) that your accounts in Outlook were POP and the default in Thunderbird is IMAP. merging IMAP and POP files and folders is fraught with difficulties and dangers. It would be a brave developer that tried that in an import.
In the case of IMAP all your mail is one the server, so import is not all that important. However copying a gigabyte or two of of outlook mail into your imap server could exhaust your available message storage space there and cause the import to fail completely.
So If you want to do what your saying, first confirm that your not using IMAP mail. Otherwise your experience is most likely going to be exceedingly poor.
If you are using POP mail, then changing the setting in your pop account to cause it to use the global inbox will make a single mail account appear, "Local Folder", with your outlook mail as a sub folder of that.
Dragging a folder from the imported outlook tree to Local folders is not difficult, as long as you remember that folders hang of other folders, so your dragging them to a parent, not a position on the screen you like.

TS1541 I tried importing email addresses from gmail and now my address book is locked up and will not work. Help please.

I tried importing email addresses from gmail and now my address book is locked up and will not work. Do I need to delete my address book software and reinstall? If so, what is the proper way to do this? New to Macbook software. I have tried several things and nothing has helped. I have backed up photos, movies, etc. My addresses are on my iphone so I can sync them later right if I loose my data?
Thanks for your time and expertise,
T.

You can probably resolve this by removing some Address Book preference files rather than deleting your Address Book application.
First turn off Synchronize in Address Book Preferences if you can.
Next restart Address Book and try to export everything to your Desktop.
I have had a play and found my Address Book preference files. In the following ~/Library is the Library within your Home folder. Any numerals may differ on your Mac. Quit Address Book before doing anything with these.
1 - Display details and things set in Address Book Preferences
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
2 - Has no data - not sure what this does
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
3 - Has last sync date - may have more if I used sync
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.AddressBook.sync.000393735c06.plist
4 - My contact details
/Library/Preferences/AddressBookMe.plist
5 - Individual addresses and groups stored as separate files within:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata
6 - All of these addresses are are also in this single database:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
If you wish to remove all addresses drag both 5 & 6 to your Desktop.
If you wish to reset preferences drag 1 your Desktop.
Removing 3 may resolve sync issues but I am unable to test this.
If you wish to reset everything drag all except 4 to your desktop.
Apple has an interesting page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2481
I hope this helps.

Importing Contacts to Address Book... from e-mail accounts!

I have been a hotmail user for a long time, and basically all my contacts or on my hotmail account. But am moving on, and i am using my gmail account now through apple's Mail. so i would like to import my contacts from hotmail to Apple's Address Book...
any ideas?
Merci:)

Dear noanoa,
yes, it is possible, but not using Apple.Mail. You might wish to give AB Transfer a try:
http://www.turingart.com/abtlan_en.htm
While the app imports and exports various formats, it is also able to scan Apple.Mail's folders regarding TO, FROM, CC and BCC addreses.
Look at the 'Data Sources' tab and find the 'Import from Apple.Mail' section. Click on 'Choose' and choose a mailbox to scan. Finally, select which types of addresses you are interested in.
The scan process is quite fast: The app scans roughly 200 emails per second on a CoreDuo iMac.
Kind regards
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Importing Address Groups from Outlook Express 5 (Mac) to OS 10.3 Mail

I've successfully imported all my emails and email folders from Outlook Express (Mac) to Mail. The contacts imported into my Address Book, but not collected into their groups. I need those address groups!
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TS4147 My contacts from iphone were deleted by mistake, but I found them saved in may icloud account, on a PC. Now how can I import all may contacts back to myu iphone?

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Do you mean they are on the web at iCloud.com or on your PC in an iCloud client (such as Outlook)

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I moved from MobileMe to iCloud and all my contacts are lost! The only contacts I now have are from my Exchange account. Any help please. I tried "Import from SIM" but as all my contacts were on MobileMe, they're all gone!!

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that happens for people who used icloud for everything but contacts. When they updated and went through initial
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How to import from old address book?

Hi all, I've searched the net about my problem but with no result.
I have an old mac (a G3 iMac running 10.3.9) with a lot of contacts on its Address Book, and I do mean a lot. The computer is completely dead, but I have a copy of the contents of its internal hard disk on a new mac running Lion. My problem is importing the old contacts into the new Address Book. The file formats have changed and the old files can't be imported into the new application, they are not even recognized as addressbook files. Obviously I can't export from the old system since it's not running. The old AddressBook.data file is a terrible junk of names, addresses, telephone numbers and everything else organized in an incomprehensible way (I can't just manually copy the addresses from the file). Does anyone know how to import those contacts into the new format? Otherwise, I'll have to find somebody who owns an old system with an old Address Book application so that I can export the files from there. Thanks a lot

As it's been 3 months, you probably have resolved this by now, but I had a similar problem today and resolved it with help from a tech at the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store.
If you ever backed up your "Library" folder from your old Mac, it contains the "Application Support" folder which in turn contains the "Address Book" folder.
On your new iMac, running Lion:
1)open Finder
2)select "Go" on the menu
3)with the "Go" window open, press and hold down the "Option" key on your keybord. Doing this will expose the hidden "Library" folder.
4) in the Library folder you will find "Application Support"
5) in the "Application Support" folder, you will find the "Address Book" folder
6) assuming you have the old "Address Book" folder from within the backed-up "Library Folder" from you old iMac, delete the "Address Book" folder on your new iMac and copy your old backed-up Address Book folder to the "Application Support" folder in its place.
7) Open the Address Book application and you should see your contact records.
I just finished doing this and it worked for me.
Cheers

Import From Excel to Address Book?

I have several large lists in an Excel file that I would like to import into address book easily. Can this be done? If so, please provide some direction.

Save the files as tab delimited or CSV files and import using the address book import command
from Address Book help
Home Index
Importing contacts
Address Book can import contact information that you save or export from other applications in vCard, LDIF, tab-delimited, and comma-separated (CSV) formats.
You can export addresses in LDIF format from Netscape, and vCards from Palm Desktop, Entourage, Outlook, and others. You can export text files in tab-delimited or CSV format from most databases.
To import addresses from other applications:
Export addresses from the other application in vCard, LDIF, tab-delimited, or comma-separated (CSV) format.
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When exporting tab-delimited or CSV files, you may want to note the order of the information fields. If the file doesn’t contain labels, you can refer to your notes to manually identify the fields in a later step.
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When exporting from Palm Desktop, use the default column layout.
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Verify that exported .txt or CSV files don’t contain line breaks, which can cause the import to fail. >Use a text editing application such as TextEdit to find and remove the line breaks.
In Address Book, choose File > Import, and then choose the format of the exported file. Choose “Text File” for a tab-delimited or CSV file.
Select the file that contains the exported addresses and click Open.
If you are importing a text file, use the pop-up menus in the Text File Import dialog to specify how to import the data.
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If the first record contains labels instead of contact information, select the “Ignore first card” checkbox.
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Use the left and right arrows to see different records in the file you’re importing, to help you determine how to set the pop-up menus.
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If you don’t want to import a field, set the pop-up menu to “Do not import.”
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To set the pop-up menus for address fields, choose the type of address (home, work, or other) in the pop-up menu next to the first item of the address. Then use the address pop-up menus that appear to choose the corresponding data for each address field.
If the application you’re exporting contacts from supports it, export vCards that include multiple contacts to speed up importing.
To see the most recently imported contacts, click Last Import in the Group column. This list is updated each time you import contacts. Use the View menu to show or hide the Last Import item in the Group column.
You can use iSync to import contacts from your Palm device. For more information, open iSync, choose Help > iSync Help, and then search for “palm.”
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Question about importing from mac mail to folder in address book

Is it possible to place imported email addresses (Mac email) into specific folder(s) in Address Book rather than into just the All Folder.? For example, I have several business addresses that I want to import from Mac Mail automatically into my Business Folder and several others that I want to go into Friends Folder. Can this be done? If so how? Thanks
iMac Intel Duo 20" Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Mac OS X (10.3.7)

The Address Book database is similar to the iTunes database and iPhoto database.
If you use iTunes then you know you can't place a song in a playlist without the song being in the primary iTunes database first and the same with iPhoto. You can't place a photo in an album with the photo being in the main iPhoto library first.
The same with Address Book. You can't place a contact in an Address Book group without the contract being in the primary Address Book "All" Group and I'm not aware of a way to place a contact in the primary All group and in a designated group at the same time.

Problems opening and using Contacts files imported from PC.

I'm new to iPad and IOS.
Transferred my Contacts files from my PC which has now gone the way of all flesh.
Can pick up my individual email addresses for emails but cannot see my address groups (used for group emailing).
I can see the .contact and .group files on Knowhow but the Pad tells me I can't open those files.
How can I open the files, and why do the groups not show up when I 'm trying to select an email address.
Am I just being dumb or do I need to download different app ?
Grateful for any help. Thanks

See this r=thread for some alternatives....free that is!
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9416728#9416728

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