Comments on: Backup All Outlook Contacts to VCard in 3 Easy Steps

By: Manoj Thomas

Manoj Thomas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:41:52 +0000

The easiest way to do this is to download Mozilla Thundebird (http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/) and install it on your Vista OS. you don’t need to set up any account. once you have installed it. open up the address book and then select all the address’s and choose export. Select the LDIF format. Once this is done, copy this on a USB file and move the .LDIF file to your Mac. Now open up ‘Address Book’ within Mac and choose ‘import’ and navigate to the .ldif file and BAAMMM!! you are done. you should have all of your contacts in your Mac address book.
Now if you have an iPhone and MobileMe, enable syncing and make sure you have your address book option checked. doing this will add all of your contacts to your iPhone as well.

By: carl

carl — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:12:15 +0000

Jan – Thanks for the report, glad to hear it works on OL2007!

-Carl

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:28:21 +0000

Works with Outlook 2007 too.

By: carl

carl — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:53:37 +0000

Miha – Thanks for the great suggestion! I’ll have to try this out.

-Carl

By: MihaM

MihaM — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:07:20 +0000

If you have a phone that can’t be syncronised with your outlook contacts or you just don’t want to bother with the installation, you can send this email to the phone and click on the atachment. The phone will ask you if you want to add this contact to the address book. Since there are many VCF files it’s probably better to join them into single VCF file before sending. Just follow the 3 steps above and then open DOS window in that directory and type this command:
copy *.vcf contacts.vcf
Copy command will join every VCF file into a single file called contacts.vcf.
When I tried this on some sony Ericsson phones, the phone filled the whole address book with one click.