Exporting Filemaker lists into Apple Mail/Contacts

I wold love to make more use of Mail, in turn, my iPod's "contacts" feature. But all of our contact library is in Filemaker. Anyone know of a utility or app out there that will handle this? Otherwise, I foresee a compliated export/import process. -- David in Kansas City

Hi, welcome to the discussions.
Apple Mail's contacts come from the Address Book application. There are a number of ways. If you are not using .Mac to sync, open Address Book on the Mac that contains your contacts and highlight All. Go to the toolbar and choose File/Export GroupvCard. Export it to your desktop, and then you can use Bluetooth File Transfer to send it to your other Mac, or save the file to an external drive and transfer it. Save the file to the desktop of the other Mac and open Address Book. Go to the toolbar and choose File/Import/vCards, and select the file you created. It will import all your contacts.

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