How do I export Address Book to text file?

I want to create a separate database for my professional contacts using Excel or Filemaker.  Right now I have them all in Address Book.  If I could just export my database as a tab-delimited text file.

The AB file
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
is a SQLite3 database. You can extract data with
http://menial.co.uk/software/base/
or Firefox SQLite manager

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    Hi,
    I need to get a group of addresses to a friend who can not use the vcard format. I need to do it in a text file format, but don't see any way in address book to do that.
    Can you help?
    Meg

    The vcards are actually text files - you can read them with BBEdit or Text Editor.
    One way to achieve what you want is clumsy but may be workable, depending on the number in the group and what your friend plans to do with them. In Address Book, select the group and go to File/Print. Choose the List style, select the fields to be included and then click the PDF button and save the group as a PDF. Send the PDF to your friend. Friend can open it, click the "Select Text" tool, select the data and copy it off to whatever is to receive it.
    Another more standard way would be to run applescript to pull the data you need into a comma-separated or tab-separated data file which can be imported into spreadsheet or address book programs. Several versions of such scripts have been posted here recently, or there are various importer/exporter scripts available on the internet.
    AK

  • How do I Export Address Book data?

    Is there anyway to insert Address Book data into other (non-Apple) applications, e.g. Word?
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    Yink,
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    Some options are:
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    • Address Book Exporter
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    • Export Address Book
    http://software.dibomedia.de/ExportAddressBook
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  • Importing Addresses in Address book from text file

    Hello all,
    I am attempting to import my address books from Microsoft Outlook into the Address book on the Macintosh.
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    So far, I HAVE been able to get the 400 email addresses exported into a plain text file. This text file has only the email addresses, one per line within the text document.
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    Here's instructions. I find it hard to believe that this much work is required, but I'm not at home and so I can't experiment with my Mac.
    <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050828200319417&lsrc=osxh>
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    I am trying to export my contacts from Address Book to a ".csv" file. The only export options I am seeing are "Export vCard file..." and "Back-up Address Book". I find it very hard to believe that there isn't a way for me to extract my contacts and view them in a spreadsheet format. Does anyone have any insight on this?

    Hi aritschfox, and a warm welcome to the forums!
    Might give this a try...
    http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/addressbooktocsvexporte r.html

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    It seems to only export to Vcard. No Vcard to csv...

    Export to vCard,
    Go to this URL
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    How do you export Address Book to use in Outlook?

    You connect the iPhone to iTunes, select Outlook as to where you want to sync contacts, and calendar if you want, and then sync. The only thing you need to do is make sure if the Outlook on the computer is completely empty, put in a unique contact in Outlook to force the merge option to come up. See this support document http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296

  • How to export Address Book content as Unicode with applescript?

    Hello,
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    Since your code works under OSX10.4 and fails under OSX10.5, the cause would be the change made in AppleScript 2.0.
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    http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/AppleScript/RN-AppleScript/index.html
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    http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangG uide/
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    Commands Reference > read, write
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  • How to export Address Book to FileMaker Pro?

    How to export Address Book to FileMaker Pro so mailing labels can be printed.
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    @GeorgeBetty,   I asume that Address Book's built in print functionality doesn't meet your needs. correct?
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    Having trouble exporting addresses from my Earthlink webmail account to my Mac's address book. Won't accept the CVS file. How do I do this? Earthlink does not give me any options--it automatically creates a CVS file when I hit "export."

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  • How do I import Address Book data from an old Mac to a new one?

    I just bought a MacBook using OS 10.5.1. How can I transfer the address card data from my old eMac using system 10.3.9? The two machines are currently connected with a Firewire cable, and my laptop is reading the eMac's hard drive.

    It's actually very simple. In your old AB under the file menu click "Export Address Book Archive to your desktop. Then using the new system log in to the old via network and move the file from the old to the new.
    Then open the new AB and click import AB archive"
    You're done

  • How can I import address book from thunderbird on another computer

    I just purchased a new laptop and have dowloaded Thunderbird for my e-mail as that was what I was using on desktop. I have 2 e-mail accounts, my personal e-mail addresses came thru with no difficulty however my other account the contacts in address book didn't come thru. So question is how can I get address book imported for this account too. My desktop is Windows XP and my laptop is Windows 8
    thanks for any help

    The neat thing to do would be to copy the profile from the XP machine to the W8 machine. This would have transferred your messages, your account settings and your Address Book and much else.
    Given that you have set up Thunderbird and have started using it, copying over the profile may not now be terribly attractive for you.
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    Having said that, I don't understand what you mean by "my personal e-mail addresses came thru with no difficulty however my other account the contacts in address book didn't come thru"; unless you have moved the profile folder over, I don't understand why ''any'' contacts should have transferred.
    If you have in fact moved the profile folder, then I'm puzzled as to why the transfer of address books has been incomplete. However the export and import route should be able to reclaim the missing address book(s).

  • Does the Export Address book work also with Mavericks ?

    I want to export my address book to excel file ? Does the Exporter address book for mac was tested with MACOSX Maverick ? Is it going to work ?

    For the next person to come along, here are Microsoft instructions for formatting leading Zeros in Excel. http://support.microsoft.com/KB/81518
    An image of the phone number being set to text in Excels import Wizard. I don't have the 2007 version available to test, but I do not recall it being any different about a decade ago.
    <img alt="" src="https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/images/2014-08-09-20-22-53-96019d.png". and a link to the Microsoft documentation for Excel 2007 indicating that dialog was in Excel 2007 as well. http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/excel-help/text-import-wizard-HP010102244.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HP010099725

  • How to Merge 2 Address Books

    Hi folks. Just wanted to know if anybody knew how to merge 2 address books. I don't mean two identical or similar contacts. Whole address books.
    A duplicated, put into B machine. They both took on separate lives.
    This is what I am thinking:
    - A backed up.
    - B exported.
    - B imported into A, conflicts resolved (that could take some time, if it's manual, as my book has 1600 cards)
    - A (which is new), exported, put back into B.
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    Well, unfortunately, Address Book doesn't have a function to compare then only merge identical cards. Its four import options are Keep Old, Keep New, Keep Both, and Update. The Update option is closest to what you want, but it will assume that contacts with similar fields (like the John Q Public example I gave earlier) are the same person and will combine them into one (I found this out the hard way).
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