Moving contacts from Outlook 2007 to Mac Address Book
Hello all,
I've tried to email VCard attachments of contacts from an Outlook 2007 / Exchange Server account so I can import them into my MAC Address Book. When I look at my sent folder in Outlook, the attachment shows a VCF attachment. When I pick up the email on my MAC using Mail, the attachment always comes back as WinMail.dat which the Address Book doesn't recognize.
Furthermore, I've tried sending the VCard to a Yahoo email address and download the attachment. That worked fine.
Was wondering if someone could help me isolate where the issue may be. Thanks.
If Outlook Express provides for exporting contacts in vCard format, you can send all contacts as vCard attachments to a message sent to an email account you access with the Mail.app. Save the vCard attachments from the message to a created folder on the Desktop and then use the Address Book import feature selecting vCards.
If OE does not provide for exporting contacts in vCard format, it should provide for exporting contacts as a tab-delimited text file.
The Tiger Address Book includes a Text File import selection/option.
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I've wanted to easily export a set of selected contacts from Outlook in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. I've been through many threads about synching to Address Book and then exporting, but I've found a host of troubles, including duplicate copies of contacts being created.
So, I finally broke down and wrote an AppleScript script to export all of the currently selected contacts from Outlook to a file in either vcf (vcard) or csv (comma separated value) format. The best use of this script is to:
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-- jsc
-- Export Outlook Contacts
-- (c) 2012 J. Scott Carr. The script is made available for free use, with no
-- warranty, under the Creative Commons license agreement.
-- This script has only been tested on Mac OS X 10.6.8 with Micrsoft Outlook for
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property byCategory : "By category"
property byPattern : "Names matching pattern"
property vcardFormat : "VCard"
property csvFormat : "CSV"
-- main
set contactsToExport to {}
-- Get the contact selection
set contactsToExport to get_contacts_to_export()
if (count of contactsToExport) is 0 then
display alert "Please select contacts to export and rerun script" as warning
return
end if
-- Shall we export to vcard or CSV?
set theFormat to vcard_or_csv()
if theFormat is "" then
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return
end if
-- Get and open the output file
set oFile to open_output_file(theFormat)
if (oFile is equal to -128) then
display alert "Canceled"
return
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return
end if
-- Export the contacts
display dialog "About to export " & (count of contactsToExport) & " contacts in " & theFormat & " format. Proceed?"
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close access oFile
end try
return
end if
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display alert "Invalid format" as warning
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return
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-- Check that the current selection is Contacts and not some other Outlook
-- object. Snag the selected Contacts and return them as a list.
-- A side note. When I started this, I built options to enter a matching
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-- current selection.
-- There is some strange behavior that Outlook needs to have recently been
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on get_contacts_to_export()
set selectedContacts to {}
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set theSelection to selection
if class of theSelection is list then
if class of the first item of theSelection is contact then
copy theSelection to selectedContacts
end if
else
if class of theSelection is contact then
copy theSelection to selectedContacts
end if
end if
return selectedContacts
end tell
end get_contacts_to_export
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-- Get the format to use when exporting contacts
on vcard_or_csv()
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if result is false then
return ""
else
return first item of result
end if
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-- Open the destination file for the export, returning the file descriptor or the error number
-- if the operation fails
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-- Get the filename, letting "choose file name" deal with existing files.
set theDate to current date
set theTime to time of theDate
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set fileName to "contacts.csv"
else
set fileName to "contacts.vcf"
end if
try
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try
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set oFile to open for access outputFile with write permission
set eof oFile to 0
on error errText number errNum
display alert "Error opening file: " & errNum & return & errText as warning
try
close access oFile
end try
return errNum
end try
return oFile
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on export_to_vcard(theContacts, outFile)
set vcards to {}
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
repeat with aContact in theContacts
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end repeat
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repeat with aCard in vcards
write (aCard & linefeed) to outFile
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set csvFields to {}
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set csvFields to init_csv()
-- Write the header row
set nFields to count csvFields
write first item of csvFields to outFile
repeat with i from 2 to nFields
write "," & item i of csvFields to outFile
end repeat
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repeat with aContact in theContacts
write build_csv_line(csvFields, aContact) & linefeed to outFile
end repeat
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-- to export.
on init_csv()
set csvFields to {"first name", "last name", "middle name", "title", "nickname", "suffix", "phone", "home phone number", "other home phone number", "home fax number", "business phone number", "other business phone number", "busines fax number", "pager number", "mobile number", "home email", "work email", "other email", "company", "job title", "department", "assistant phone number", "home street address", "home city", "home state", "home country", "home zip", "business street address", "business city", "business state", "business country", "business zip", "home web page", "business web page", "note"}
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-- build_csv_line(): format one line for the csv file
-- Parameter csvFields determins which fields to include in the export.
-- Unfortunately I've not figured out how to use perl-style generation of
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-- by simply using the field name to refer to a Contact properly.
-- Note that email address are a special case as they're a list of objects in
-- Outlook. So these are handled specially in the export function and can only
-- be selected by the column names "home email", "work email", and "other email".
-- Outlook allows a contact to have more than one of each type of email address
-- but not all contact managers are the same. This script takes the first of
-- each type. So if a contact has more than one "home" email address, you will
-- only be able to export the first to a csv file. Suggest you clean up your
-- addresses in Outlook to adapt. The alternative is to support multiple
-- columns in the csv like "other email 1" and "other email 2", but that's not
-- supported in this version.
-- Another note. In this version, any embedded "return" or "linefeed" characters
-- found in a property of a contact are converted to a space. That means that
-- notes, in particular, will be reformated. That said, this gets arond a problem
-- with embedded carriage returns in address fields that throw off importing
-- the csv file.
-- Also note that at this time IM addresses aren't supported, but it's an easy add
-- following the same logic as email addresses.
on build_csv_line(csvFields, theContact)
set aField to ""
set csvLine to ""
set homeEmail to ""
set workEmail to ""
set otherEmail to ""
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set props to get properties of theContact
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else if type of anAddress is work then
set workEmail to address of anAddress
else if type of anAddress is other then
set otherEmail to address of anAddress
end if
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repeat with aFieldItem in csvFields
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set aValue to ""
if aField is "first name" then
set aValue to get first name of props
else if aField is "last name" then
set aValue to last name of props
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set aValue to middle name of props
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set aValue to display name of props
else if aField is "title" then
set aValue to title of props
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set aValue to nickname of props
else if aField is "suffix" then
set aValue to suffix of props
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set aValue to phone of props
else if aField is "home phone number" then
set aValue to home phone number of props
else if aField is "other home phone number" then
set aValue to other home phone number of props
else if aField is "home fax number" then
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else if aField is "business phone number" then
set aValue to business phone number of props
else if aField is "other bsiness phone number" then
set aValue to other business phone number of props
else if aField is "bsuiness fax number" then
set aValue to business fax number of props
else if aField is "pager number" then
set aValue to pager number of props
else if aField is "mobile number" then
set aValue to mobile number of props
else if aField is "home email" then
set aValue to homeEmail
else if aField is "work email" then
set aValue to workEmail
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set aValue to otherEmail
else if aField is "office" then
set aValue to office of props
else if aField is "company" then
set aValue to company of props
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set aValue to job title of props
else if aField is "department" then
set aValue to department of props
else if aField is "assistant phone number" then
set aValue to assistant phone number of props
else if aField is "age" then
set aValue to age of props
else if aField is "anniversary" then
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set aValue to astrology sign of props
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set aValue to birthday of props
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set aValue to home city of props
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set aValue to home state of props
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set aValue to home web page of props
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set aValue to spouse of props
else if aField is "interests" then
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else if aField is "custom field one" then
set aValue to custom field one of props
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set aValue to custom field four of props
else if aField is "custom field five" then
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end if
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end if
end if
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end tell
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set csvLine to replace_text(csvLine, return, " ")
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