Sharing address book data

I have tried to export my address book data so I can import it into a contact management program. But Mimbers cannot open the files, nor can excel. Can address book NOT create a comma delimited or tab delimited file? And if so, why not?

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
No, Address Book cannot export to anything but VCF. It's not a new issue.
Have you tried one of the online free or paid VCF to CSV converters?
Using your favorite search engine with the term 'VCF to CSV converter' brings up lots of links:
http://soft.udm4.com/downloading/csv_to_vcf_converter_freeware/
Apple isn't going to address it, because others already solved the problem.

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Sharing address book contacts

Hello
We run a small network (less than 10 users) and run mail, file & user services off Mac OS X Server 10.4.x. I will probably upgrade to Leopard Server when available.
I need to find a way of sharing address book information amongst our users. This does not mean contact information for users, it means contact information for customers, suppliers, etc.
You would think that this is simple, and perhaps it is, but I cannot find a way of doing it.
I see that in Leopard Server we will have shared calendars, but still no sign of shared address books, that I can see.
I have tried various syncing tools with mixed success. The most promising looked to be Sync Together from Mark/Space but it will not run on Mac OS X Server (at least not unless you leave it logged in as some user).
I looked at Now-up-to-date/Contact but this is often reported as flaky - though I understand they have a new sharing product due some time soon.
Am I missing something? Is there a way of using LDAP server to distribute contact info? The data must be read/write ie capable of being edited in Address Book.
Thanks for any help
Regards
James

SugarCRM or most any other Customer Relationship Management (CRM) package can potentially provide what you want here, though such — even an open-source package — might be viewed as overkill. Few of these are tied into Mail and its address book; you're operating in the CRM environment.
Leopard Server offers [Directory|http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/directory.html], which might well be what you seek. Stick your customers in the directory, in their own groupings. (Assuming Directory offers a hierarchical organization, you could have Customers -> Company -> Contacts, for instance.)
The Directory feature certainly appears to be the next round of the LDAP and Open Directory support in the existing Tiger Server environment. Conceivably, you could load your data into the existing LDAP Open Directory environment, but that might not be (isn't) optimal.
A slightly more involved approach would be to use an RSS feed for your contact info and contact updates, and create and one of the Data Detector action routines that Leopard Mail offers; basically rolling your own distribution system. Load your contacts via RSS, and whenever you connect to your network, the Mail RSS feed and a custom Data Detector could be used to synchronize your address book with the RSS feed.
But yes, Leopard Directory looks to be the best way for now, based on what's been published.

Shared address book!

I have a question about setting up shared address books with Mac OS X, but I have no idea how to solve this. I want to set up an address book that can be accessed by different user accounts on the same Mac or by different Macs in the same network. is there away to set it up under Mac OS Leopard server?! Thanks

Hi Stephen,
Open Directory is part of the advanced configuration. When promoted to Master it serves users, groups, computers and provides an LDAP directory.
I'm not so familiar with the Standard Server configuration. But you can see if Address Book connects with the Directory in use under that configuration.
In Address Book -> Preferences -> LDAP -> + -> fill in the blanks. Call it "LDAP Dir". For a server.example.com put in a search base of
"dc=server, dc=example, dc=com" (no quotes),
Port 389 and
Scope of Subtree.
For Authentication -> Simple,
Username -> [email protected] and your password. Save. Check Active.
Note that for internet access you need to have port 389 open. If inside a LAN it is available to all the direct clients on the internal net.
In Address Book -> Groups -> Directories -> LDAP Dir. Now search for something in the directory. The search will return based on 3 letters or more entered for search. You can click on the icon of an entry and see the vcard data.
BTW - Open Directory is part of Leopard Server. Active Directory is the Windows thing.
Hope this helps,
Harry

GroupWise Shared Address book

Good Morning!
I have an issue where a user has created a shared address book and shared it out with the users at her site. After doing so, some of the users, who are on multiple post offices, are seeing old data. I have resolved that issue by identifying the proper Prime User DB, having the owner unshare the book, renaming the pux.db, and having the owner reshare the book with a test account of mine. The new db has the updated and new information, but any changes the owner makes are not being replicated (address changes or rights changes).
Clients - User is running 7.0.3 build 976 (I think) and I am running 7.0.3 build 1068
Servers - 7.00.03
I have restarted the post offices, recreated the pux.db, have restarted the servers. Nothing seems to force the replication from the owner's post office (PO1) to my test account (PO2).
Any suggestions on how I can resolve this issue?
Thanks,
Chris Williamson

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Changing the shared address book name.

I am sharing my addressbook through .mac to serveral other .mac users in the office. When they subscribe to it is shown as "Homer Simpson" (name changed to protect the guilty). I want to change that name to "Office Address Book". I tried change "MyCard" to read accordingly in Address Book but that wasn't it.
Where is the shared address book name getting pulled from?
Thanks All!!!

When I select print for an individual contact or for all contacts, I have an Attributes section to select which attributes to include with the printing for each contact that includes the following:
Phone
Email
Address
Instant Messenger
Photo
Job Title
Department
Company
Nickname
Mainden Name
Phoenetic Name
Names
Birthday
Date
Note
URL

Sharing Address Book with non-Mobile Me members

I maintain a mailing list for my volleyball friends via a group in my Address Book on my MacBook Pro. I have MobileMe. Most of my friends on the mailing list are PC users and don't have MobileMe. I want to provide everyone on the list a webpage (or whatever) that they can visit to see my current mailing list - we all like to keep in contact with each other. It would be nice if it could be kept current, with name, address, phone numbers, birthdays, photos, etc. I have not been able to figure out a way to do this - to create a shared Address Book that is accessible to everyone in the group, regardless of whether they are a MobileMe user or not. Can you recommend anything? Is there a way to design say a webpage that is perhaps built off an extract of my Address Book? Ideally, I would love for it to remain in sync, but if I can't do that perhaps I could at least manually refresh it periodically. Any ideas would be most appreciated, even if complicated. I can learn. Thanks! Paul

But that is exactly what Address Book Server does. It synchronises (via iSync) with your clients local Address Book, so besides having all your data in a relational database, all your connected clients are also kept in sync an up-to-date. Address Book Server support most modern relational database engine but used H2 by default. Many users have configured MySQL and PostgreSQL is also an option. Depending on your choice of frameworks and technology you should be able to integrate it. However for those less enterprising, there is a friendly web interface already available in the "Enterprise Edition".
To answer your question regarding how this is accomplished. The Address Book API allows direct access to contact information on OS X and the iPhone. However the data can also be accessed via the iSync API. Depending on your requirements either might be suitable for your requirements as well. You could also access the SQLLite backend directly, however this is not a supported method and not recommended. You would also have to figure the schema out for yourself.
Maybe you should just try it out and see how it can be improved.
Disclaimer : As the developer of Address Book Server I have a natural bias...

How can I access Address Book data from an older version of the application to transfer it to a newer version of Mac OS running on a second hard drive on the same MDD G4?

I installed a hard drive from one PowerPC Dual 1.25 GHz MDD into another one with an older version of the OS X. all my Address Book data are on the older hard drive, from which I now boot the computer. When I launch Address Book as an app on the hard drive with the newer version of the OS, I get an error message that says I cannot run the version of Address Book from the older hard drive on the newer OS. How can I access the data on the older hard drive version of the Address Book app so that I can transfer it to the newer version of the app on the boot drive? The "Import" functionality will not work. I will be grateful for any help I can get. I would also like to uninstall the older version of OS X from the older hard drive.

Boot from the older version of OSX, then in AB use the File>Export>Export vCard after selecting all in AB.
Then boot from the new OSx & use the new AB to import that VCF file.

Adding an Address Book card from a shared address book to a Group

I have an Address Book Sharing Question/Problem. With the .Mac Family Pack, I have multiple .Mac Accounts. I have set up Address Book to share addresses from the individual .Mac accounts and set each to be able to edit the shared addresses. Initially, I was hoping that these would appear in each users Address Book and sync all changes, instead of just appearing as a shared Address Book below the users Address Book. But that does not appear to be the case.
However, my question/problem is that I want to be able to add a card from a shared Address Book (for example from my wife’s Address Book) into a current group in my Address Book (say a family member group). I can drag the card in, but the information is apparently copied as a new card into my Address Book and changes I make are no longer synced with the shared Address Book (my Wife’s Address Book). Is this working correctly? (I know .Mac has been acting up in the last few weeks) If so, there does not appear to be much value in say sharing family, doctor, and friends info from my wife’s address book, as I can not create my own groups or if I do, our contact info is no longer synced. The new cards I copy in are also not visible to the shared Address Book, so we will also have no way of seeing that a card has been changed. Is there anyway to truly share a card or group of contacts between users of separate .Mac accounts so that the contacts can be separated into different groups for each user and card info / changes will remain synced? If this is already supposed to be occurring, any ideas as to a fix?
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Also, if I drag an entire group from a shared Address Book to my Address Book, it is copied in a blue color, making me think "Cool! It is different from a group that I create (which are white), so it must be shared!" But it is not. Changes to cards in this "copied" group are not synced to the original shared Address Book. So, what does the blue color mean?

How can I delete my address book data

Running Lion. I've read in several post that the data file is in home folder/library/application support/AddressBook.
To test this I set up a temporary user account, added a few contacts to the address book, quit the application, deleted the entire AddressBook folder and contents in home folder/library/application support/AddressBook, re-launched Address Book and the new contacts I just created are still there.
I quit address book, deleted this same folder and contents again, this time also deleted all address book preference files in library/preferences, re-launched address book and the new contacts are still there.
Anyone know where the data file is really kept? In a brand new user account there aren't many files in home folder/library so it shouldn't be too hard to find but I sure can't seem to.
Any help would be appreciated.
PS. For those who want to know "why". I believe my daughter's Mac has a corrupt address book data file so I want to start over "fresh" but can't seem to locate where the true data file is.
Thanks,

"Perhaps for recovery or sync, don't know"
This was just a possible but the sync part of it really isn't possible in this case. In setting up a new temporary account on my Mac it would be an account without an iCloud or MobilMe account so there would be no syncing involved.
Address Book data for each user's account will be stored only within that users account. The fake contacts I've created in the temporary user account certainly don't show up in any other account.
Your behaviour "if I delete the files mentioned, there is absolutely nothing left." is exactly what I would expect. Just can't figure out (yet) what's going on, on my Mac because this expected behaviour is not happening.

Setting Up a Shared Address Book

Hello, and thank you for taking a look at my question.
I concur with the many people on this forum who are amazed how frustratingly difficult it is to setup a shared Address Book. I have a small office network of 4 users (all running the latest Snow Leopard) connected to a Mac Pro running the most current Snow Leopard Server.
This forum did lead me to 2 good articles on the subject:
http://osxupgrade.com/create-a-global-address-book-with-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-se rver/456/
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf= 1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.osxplain.de%2Fcontent%2F4%2F1%2Fde%2Fgruppenkontakte.ht ml&sl=de&tl=en
I followed them carefully and created my new Group in Workgroup Manager which I then populated with the users in my office.
I then tried to configure Address Book at the client's iMac. I couldn't get Address Book to 'see' the server.
There are 2 areas I may have got wrong and I would be very grateful for some advice/guidance please:
On the client Mac, how can I check the fully qualified address of my server to ensure I am entering the correct address in the Address Book Wizard when creating the new account (can I not use the static IP address of the server)?
On the server, I have created, and started, the Address Book Server service. What should I enter in the Authentication > Host Name please? The manual says "It should be a fully qualified domain name matched with a reverse lookup record". How can I check I have got this correct?
Sorry for the obvious questions but it's all new to me.
Many thanks
Chris

On the client Mac, how can I check the fully qualified address of my server to ensure I am entering the correct address in the >Address Book Wizard when creating the new account (can I not use the static IP address of the server)?
Open the Terminal window on your client Mac and type *dig [name of your server]* and check that it returns the IP address of your server. Then type *dig -x [ip address of your server] and check it returns the name of your server e.g. server.domain.com
This will show you what your client Mac thinks you server is.
Do the same on the server and it should match. If not then you may have a problem. Here is an example.
*dig server.bumfodder.com*
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> server.bumfodder.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49014
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;server.bumfodder.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
server.bumfodder.com. 37694 IN A 95.130.103.213
;; Query time: 11 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 20 07:46:43 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 54
*dig -x 95.130.103.213*
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> -x 95.130.103.213
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25816
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;213.103.130.95.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
213.103.130.95.in-addr.arpa. 38400 IN PTR server.bumfodder.com.
;; Query time: 36 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 20 07:47:46 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 79
<div class="jive-quote">On the server, I have created, and started, the Address Book Server service. What should I enter in the Authentication > >Host Name please? The manual says "It should be a fully qualified domain name matched with a reverse lookup record". >How can I check I have got this correct?
In the above example - you would put server.bumfodder.com

Access Address Book data from terminal

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if there is a way to access Address Book data from the terminal. For instance, I would
need a command that would output an address of a given person.
Thanks in advance for your input

this script could be used in Terminal (save the code below as
"getaddress" and mark it as executable):
case $# in
2) firstname=$1; lastname=$2;;
*) echo 'Usage: getaddress <firstname> <lastname>' 1>&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
count=`osascript -e "tell application \"Address Book\" to count (people whose first name is \"${firstname}\" and last name is \"${lastname}\")"`
case $count in
0) echo "$firstname $lastname is not in Address Book." 1>&2; exit 1;;
1) ;;
*) echo "There are multiple entries for $firstname $lastname in Address Book (unhandled error)." 1>&2; exit 1;;
esac
osascript -e "tell application \"Address Book\" to get formatted address of address of first person whose first name is \"${firstname}\" and last name is \"${lastname}\""
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E51 address book data access via Bluetooth to Garm...

I have a new E51 but cannot access address book data via Bluetooth from a Garmin Sat Nav (model 310). Worked perfectly with old Nokia 6310, but returns a 'no can do' message when using the E51. Lack of this feature is a big problem - surely Bluetooth communication is supposed to work to a common standard. This is not good. Does anyone have a solution or know of a patch to cure this? Thanks.

All metioned problems are Samsung's fault. Blame them.
I've been assuming it was a Samsung problem, and have posted help requests in cell phone forums that Samsung engineers and/or support allegedly reads. I was hoping there might be some way to automate a workaround from the computer end...
Now, if Address Book had an option to define the fields that are to be exported or perhaps automatically sub Company Names for last names the problem would be solved when exporting for cell phones. I can't belive no one has ever encountered this before -- it has been a problem with every cell phone I have ever owned.

How can I get my address book data back?

After upgrading to OS6, my address book has gone from almost a thousand entries to being totally empty.
This is a *very* big deal for me bc I have no address book application on my PC.
I had always assumed that if iTunes were backing up my iPod, that I would be able to restore from those backups, but now I cannot figure out how to tell iTunes to restore from a backup. I've got a backup... just cannot restore from it.
There's got to be a way.... and I'm probably looking right at it and not seeing it.

It has been a very long time since I used 10.1.5 but Address Book data is not stored in a .plist file.
The Address Book data should be located in an Addresses folder at Home > Library > Addresses.
Locate this folder and with the Address Book application quit, move it back to the proper location.

Mail and address book data file location

Does anyone know where mail and address book saves its data?
My old mac died but I was able to remove the hard drive and mount it in a external firewire case. The drive mounts and appears in good shape. I tried using the migration utility to transfer my data into my new iMac. While a lot of data and applications did make the move, my mail files and folders did not show up on my new iMac. I'm hoping I can transfer the mail files manually. The problem is I can't find where they are located on my old computer. I was using Max os 10.4.11 on my old computer.
The same problem with my address book data. It did not transfer over with migration app. and I can't locate this data either.

The majority of Mail is in...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
AB...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook

How do I Export Address Book data?

Is there anyway to insert Address Book data into other (non-Apple) applications, e.g. Word?
I want to send out some letters and I would like each letter to have the recipiants address at the top of the letter. Even if I could export the data to Excel first would be OK but I only seem to be able to export vCards from Address Book and Excel (nor Word) can read them?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

Yink,
you can use some third-party applications to export Address Book data as plain text files (e.g., csv) which you should then be able to import without any problems in Excel and the like.
Some options are:
• Export Addresses from Mail Scripts
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/
• Address Book Exporter
http://www.gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html
• Export Address Book
http://software.dibomedia.de/ExportAddressBook
Andreas

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