Merge two address books

hi i have two computers
how i merge the address books on both into one
also, how do i ensure i do not end up with duplicates
thjanks

Greetings,
If you are a MobileMe subscriber you can turn on Addressbook syncing on both computers. This will automatically compare both addressbooks and update them so they match.
Alternatively:
_Go to each addressbook and click on "All Contacts" in the upper left
_Go to File > Export > Group vCard
_Take the resulting vCard file to the other computer and open the file up
__Once the vCard is imported go to Card > Look for Duplicates
____This will scan for and resolve any duplicates although you may want to go through afterword to make sure it go them all. Any remaining duplicates can be resolved by highlighting the duplicate cards and going to Card > Merge Selected Cards (or just deleting one of the duplicates)
Cheers.

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I am migrating from a G4 with 10.3.9 to a iMac with 10.5. We want to merge the addressbook with another iMac on 10.5 connected via ethernet.
The addressbooks used to be identical but the one from the G4 has fallen out of date. I would like to merge the two making the current 10.5 one dominate when they have duplicate entries.
What is the best tool with which to do this?
I am new to Macs so if there is a documented procedure that would be best. Any and all reference materials on the address book and it's structure would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Chuck

"The duplicates criteria is the email address and nothing else."
Golden Shores,
I think your statement solves the problem that I have. No one responded to my post about duplicates, but your statement answers most of the issues.
First, I would like to trash my current OS X Address Book and start over. Which files should I pull from which folders? I won't really trash them but move them elsewhere as backups.
I have a Palm address book with 2400 contacts that can be easily exported to vCards. However, very, very few of these contacts include e-mail addresses. I also have an AOL contact (1000 contacts) list that includes First & Last Names and an e-mail address (or two) for each person. I can also export this list to vCards. Most, if not all of the names in the AOL list are also included in the Palm list. Based on what you said, if I merge these two lists, I'll end up with 3400 contacts with everyone from the AOL list being duplicated and Address Book will NOT recognize them as duplicates.
How can I merge my two lists without having to manually copy the e-mail address from the AOL list and add it the Palm list and then manually deleting the contact from the AOL list?

Merging 2 address books without overwriting

I want to add the contents of the address book on my office desktop IMac running leopard 10.5.6 into the address book on my black macbook laptop also running 10.5.6. is there a way to do this without completely overwriting the contents on my laptop? I don't want to lose what's already there, only add in the additional names and addresses. There is no security issue. I own the company and both machines.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Hi,
So here's what I did. My iMac G5 running Tiger blew up (logic board) and, while I wait for my new 27" iMac, I needed to put all the contacts from the old iMac on my macbook (running Leopard), where I keep different contacts. Since I couldn't open the iMac contacts and export them as vCards (because that computer was dead and all the user data is backed up on an external HD) for instance I needed to merge both address books another way.
After reading through all these discussions and the ones on macrumors, and realizing that Address Book doesn't come equipped to do this easily (probably to get you to pay for a mobileme account) I took a deep breath and just did the following: Created an archive of the existing contacts on my macbook and then moved the entire macbook ~library/application support/Address Book folder to some place safe just as a backup of those; then copied the same folder from my iMac backup archive into that location on the macbook. Voila, not only did all my old addresses appear, but all the macbook ones were there too, without having to reimport them. No idea why this worked but it did. WOuld love however if someone more knowledgeable has an explanation.
Couple of notes. I tried using migration assistant, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to just migrate the address book and nothing else from my iMac user account backup. Don't want all that stuff on my macbook. Also, if you try to import an Address Book Archive, it warns you that it will delete all current addresses, so won't work to merge two different address books. And if the macbook addresses had appeared magically, my plan was to export all the addresses from the iMac that were now available on my MacBook, then replace the ~library/application support/Address Book folders again and import the vCards.
Final note, you'd think it would be easier to synch the addresses books on two computers. I'm sure plenty of folks have both a desktop and laptop they use for different things but would like to have all their addresses available on both machines. But, as I said, I suspect it has to do with drumming up mobileme business.
Anyways, I hope this helps someone else and I'd love some feedback on why this worked.

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I have two iphones a 4 and a 6 plus.
One has a name the other one another name.
two address books one in each iphone.
How to merge them and use in one iPhone, the 6 Plus?

Hello pruschi,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like you want the same addressbook on 2 iPhones. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help the issue.
Transfer content from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a new device - Apple Support
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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.
Any ideas?
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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).
Your best bet I think would be to export All Contacts for each Address Book as a single vcard (this is the only format that Address Book natively exports), open in a spreadsheet/database program that can compare and merge identical fields, and do the combine there. Address Book can import .csv files, so something like Excel or Araxis Merge (➚) might be able to do it (I don't know if Excel's Merge Workbooks function is applicable in this case).
Perhaps other people have suggestions on how to only combine identical cards. I don't know programming, so AppleScript and Terminal puts me out of my depth. For what you want to do, Address Book's import/export functions are insufficient by themselves.

Is it possible to have two address books on one computer?

I would like to create two address books on my computer. One for my wife and one for me. Therefore we can each sync our iphones to address books.

You can do that by have two separate user accounts on the computer - one for you and one for your wife. This also lets you each have separate Apple IDs so that your iPhone data are separately synced.
Using More than One iDevice on the Same Computer
This applies mainly to couples who are adding another device and do not want their email, messages, etc. being duplicated on both devices. To begin read: How to use multiple iPhone, iPad, or iPod devices with one computer. You need to establish a separate Apple ID and password for whomever will use the new iDevice. See Apple - My Apple ID and Frequently asked questions about Apple ID. The easiest way is to do this on the computer using iTunes: iTunes- How to set up an Apple ID within iTunes.
On the computer create a new user account for the person with the new iDevice. This will be the user account that person will always use. He/She will no longer use the other user account. This way that person will have a separate iTunes Library
Start by transferring the new device(s) to a new account along with all your data. Save any photo stream photos that you want to keep to your camera roll (unless they are already in the camera roll) by opening your Photos app, tap on Albums icon at the bottom. Now, tap on My Photo Stream album; tap Select; tap on the photos you want to select;, tap the share icon (box with upward facing arrow) in the lower left corner; then tap Save to Camera Roll.
If you are syncing notes with iCloud that you want to keep then you need to open each of your notes and email them to yourself. Later you can copy and paste the text into new notes created in your new account.
Tap on Settings > iCloud > Delete Account (only deletes it from this device, not from iCloud; the person keeping the current account will not be affected,) provide the password to turn off Find My Phone and choose Keep on My iDevice when prompted. Sign in with a different Apple ID to create your new account. Choose Merge to upload your data.
Once you are on separate accounts, you can each go to icloud.com and delete the other person's data from your account.
Note: The essence of the above was created by user, randers4. I
have made substantial changes to improve readability and syntax.

Having problems using mail merge from address book to word for labels

I've downloaded and opened avery labels to word and would now like to merge an address book from my mac.
When I get to the Mail Merge Manager and go to 'get list', my address book is not accessible.
I'm sure there's a simple way to do this but have not been successful googling or using the help options on both
pages and address book.
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Hi shaun
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Two address books and calendars?

My employer gave me a Blackberry Curve 8310. It is set up to sync email (wireless) with my employer's email server which is Lotus Notes.
My personal address book and calander are on MS Outlook, which I used to sync hardwire with my personal desktop.
Can I use two address books and calendars on the Curve 8310, one Lotus Notes for professional items and one MS based for personal items?
TIA. I hope this wasn't too elementary.

Hi there!
Ummmm...this does not sound like an issue regarding AppWorld...we will have the post moved over to the proper device forum so that the appropriate experts can have visibility to it:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board?board.id=8300
Stand by...
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Merging two Aperture Books

I have tried following all the directions I could find. Let's call my book files Book1 and Book 2. I exported Book2 to my mac as "book as library" This appears to work. I then highlight Book1 and choose Import library. I end up with a book called Book2 (1) which is a duplicate of Book2.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to merge two different books?

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to merge two different books?
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I have used a distribution list in Outlook for years to send a email to about 125 members of a professional organization. Now both MSN and Gmail say that I can't send this number of emails, as it might be SPAM.
So, I'm trying to get away from Outlook since I use Apple Mail now. I plan to import this list into a group in my Address Book but hate to have to manage these contacts along with all my other contacts.
Is there a way to have two contact lists, or two Address Books? I know the problem will probably still be there and I'll have to break the list down into several smaller groups to make this work (thanks SPAMMers!). But I don't trust Outlook since I've installed in on my MBP and want to do this group email using Mail.
Importing the list will take some careful planning of the text file to import from. Too bad you can't import from an Excel spreadsheet.
I know there are multiple subjects here. Any suggestions??

Thanks for the responses to this query. I was afraid that only one Address Book was allowed per user.
Guess I have no good option other than to put these contact into my Address Book and put them in a group. Probably will need to put them into several groups as it looks like most of the email programs now will not allow sending email to groups as large as this one (close to 150 contact names).
Seems like there should be a way to get around this restriction, but no being able to find help from these email groups, makes it difficult. There was a time when you could contact support people at msn.com or at some of the other commercial email providers. Not today.
I'll do a CVS import as suggested and go from there.

Two address books

Anybody know if it's possible to sync only certain address book groups - or - run two address books?
I've got contacts I need everyday, which I need to sync with MobileMe and my iPhone.
I've also got hundreds of contacts I would like to keep separately, so they don't sync and fill up my iPhone.
So, unless there is a way of not syncing a group within my main address book, can I run a second address book.
Suggestions gratefully received!

On the Info panel when you sync in iTunes, you can select the Address Book groups you sync.
I don't use mobile me, so I don't know how it is set up. You may be able to do something similar.
And, there's not a simple way to keep two address books for the same user.

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I use my iMac for keeping tabs on a list of recuring events throughout the years as well as over the years. The events generally follow in particular months each year and have new attendees as well as returning participants from previously held events who continue to attend the events.
I have kept records in Word for Mac, on Pages & Numbers, but nothing works best like Address Book. I have several hundred participants that I would like to reorganize into a central location and find that Address Book might be best suited for the task. The problem is that I would like to keep separate these names and dates from my personal/business Address Book if at all possible.
My question is, "Can two Address Books exist on the iMac, each with its own intended purpose? Namely, Address Book 1 (Personal) and Address Book 2 (Events)?
Any ideas would be welcome.
Regards,

Two ways to go about this. You can create Addressbook groups, or you can make a second user account within your Mac just to manage the second addressbook. The advantage of the former, you can selectively search between two separate groups of addresses. The advantage of the second obviously is totally separate operation.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2486 - explains the Smart Groups feature of Addressbook
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Two address books so i can merge one with other software?!

apologies again for the multiple mac mail questions today. i am a relatively new mac user, have upgraded recently to lion and am trying to finally put it all together.
does anyone know if it is possible to create a second address book account?
i would like to merge my contacts in CardScan with Mac Address Book but i would like to keep my Address Book contacts (the ones i use on my phone all the time) separate from this more business oriented database.
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CC,
you can add a new user account on your Mac (open system preferences / accounts) and start fresh there with an empty AddressBook.
If you want to fill this with a part of your original AB, select those and export as vCards. Drop this export file in your shared folder so you can access that from the new user account. Open AB ther and import the vCards

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Hi,
Since late December I've been the proud owner of a (gorgeous new) 27" iMac. This has replaced my old G5 workhorse which is running Tiger. The two are running side-by-side until I get everything migrated and converted.
For the past couple of months I've been adding new contacts, as they come in, to 'Contacts' on the iMac. However I have to bring over all my old contacts from Address Book on Tiger.
With hindsight I guess I shouldn't have done it this way but attempeted to bring them all over on day one. But I'm here now and I have lots and lots on Address book in Tiger and some in Contacts on Mountain Lion. I need both sets.
Any help as to how I can merge the two onto Contacts on the iMac will be much appreciated.
(If it makes any difference I don't use mail.app by the way but my Contacts are synced with my iPad).
Bob.

On the Tiger machine, export the contacts as vCards. If you have notes, make sure to select the option to save the notes on export--I don't know if Tiger Address Book had those options. It should produce one vCard with all contacts in it, but it may make one for every card. I can't remember what Tiger will do.
Back up Contacts on the new Mac using File>Export>Contacts Archive.
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