Sync (or copy) from Entourage into Mac's Address Book

Occasionally there is a program that utilizes the option to pull/access
contacts from Mac's Address Book. Since I use Entourage for everything, my
Address Book is empty.

Is there a free utility out there anywhere that would let me sync or copy my
contacts information from Entourage into Address Book? I wouldn't have to
do this very often. Definitely once to sync what's in it right now and then
probably just once every few months for any changes/new contacts.

I thought that I might be able to do it from within the programs themselves,
but Entourage will only let you export a tab-delimited file and Address Book
will only import vCards or LDIF files.


I'm running Entourage (newest version with exception of last update) on a G4
Powerbook running 10.3.9.

Chris
Mon Jul 24 02:10:42 CDT 2006

On 2006-07-21 07:34:32 +0100, Michelle York <teacher24_70@yahoo.com> said:

> I thought that I might be able to do it from within the programs themselves,
> but Entourage will only let you export a tab-delimited file and Address Book
> will only import vCards or LDIF files.

Try dragging the contacts from the Entourage window - you'll get vCard files.

Cheers,

Chris

Michel
Mon Jul 24 03:57:03 CDT 2006

On 24.07.06 9:10, in article 4ija3jF3ug5lU1@individual.net, "Chris Ridd"
<chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:

> On 2006-07-21 07:34:32 +0100, Michelle York <teacher24_70@yahoo.com> said:
>
>> I thought that I might be able to do it from within the programs themselves,
>> but Entourage will only let you export a tab-delimited file and Address Book
>> will only import vCards or LDIF files.
>
> Try dragging the contacts from the Entourage window - you'll get vCard files.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>

In addition to Chris' comments: Paul Berkowitz's shareware "Sync
Entourage-Address Book", available here,
<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/syncentourageaddressbook2panthertiger2.6.4.
html>, allows you to keep Address Book and Entourage synchronised. If you
don't need to synch that frequently, however, the vCard export should be
just fine.

At the same time, Entourage 2004, as of 11.2.3, has a built-in synching
functionality; unfortunately, it won't work under Panther, as it requires
Tiger's Sync Services.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

Barry
Mon Jul 24 05:30:09 CDT 2006

On 21/7/06 07:34, in article C0E5DFA8.2A98%teacher24_70@yahoo.com, "Michelle
York" <teacher24_70@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Occasionally there is a program that utilizes the option to pull/access
> contacts from Mac's Address Book. Since I use Entourage for everything, my
> Address Book is empty.
>
> Is there a free utility out there anywhere that would let me sync or copy my
> contacts information from Entourage into Address Book? I wouldn't have to
> do this very often. Definitely once to sync what's in it right now and then
> probably just once every few months for any changes/new contacts.
>
> I thought that I might be able to do it from within the programs themselves,
> but Entourage will only let you export a tab-delimited file and Address Book
> will only import vCards or LDIF files.
>
>
> I'm running Entourage (newest version with exception of last update) on a G4
> Powerbook running 10.3.9.
>

If you are using Entourage 2004 then it can sync with the Apple Address Book
without any third party utilities at all - and will keep the two in sync
without user intervention.

In the prefs, under 'Sync Services' simply turn on the option to sync the
address book & contacts.

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>

Michel
Mon Jul 24 05:53:21 CDT 2006

On 24.07.06 12:30, in article C0EA5FC1.30FC0%barry@mvps.org.INVALID, "Barry
Wainwright [MVP]" <barry@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:

> If you are using Entourage 2004 then it can sync with the Apple Address Book
> without any third party utilities at all - and will keep the two in sync
> without user intervention.
>
> In the prefs, under 'Sync Services' simply turn on the option to sync the
> address book & contacts.

Yes, but only from Mac OS X 10.4.3 onwards; Michelle is using 10.3.9, so she
won't see that option in Entourage's preferences .

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

Barry
Mon Jul 24 09:40:58 CDT 2006

On 24/7/06 11:53, in article C0EA7341.194AA%m.bintener@NOSPAMmvps.org,
"Michel Bintener" <m.bintener@NOSPAMmvps.org> wrote:

> On 24.07.06 12:30, in article C0EA5FC1.30FC0%barry@mvps.org.INVALID, "Barry
> Wainwright [MVP]" <barry@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
>
>> If you are using Entourage 2004 then it can sync with the Apple Address Book
>> without any third party utilities at all - and will keep the two in sync
>> without user intervention.
>>
>> In the prefs, under 'Sync Services' simply turn on the option to sync the
>> address book & contacts.
>
> Yes, but only from Mac OS X 10.4.3 onwards; Michelle is using 10.3.9, so she
> won't see that option in Entourage's preferences .

Ah, sorry - yes, I missed that bit.

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>

Michelle
Sun Aug 06 15:52:21 CDT 2006

Chris-

I finally got around to trying this. It worked PERFECTLY! (Well, except
for the fact that it froze my Finder for quite some time when I dragged them
from Entourage's address book to the desktop folder).

I had searched in the Help file for this, knowing that the Apple Address
Book could import vCards, but Entourage help only talked about Mbox files
and tab-delimited exports. Nothing about creating vCards. It talked about
forwarding as vCard and importing as vCard, but not exporting.

Thanks for the help. Now there's no need for a script and I don't have to
have Tiger. Thanks a million!


On 7/24/06 2:10 AM, in article 4ija3jF3ug5lU1@individual.net, "Chris Ridd"
<chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:

> On 2006-07-21 07:34:32 +0100, Michelle York <teacher24_70@yahoo.com> said:
>
>> I thought that I might be able to do it from within the programs themselves,
>> but Entourage will only let you export a tab-delimited file and Address Book
>> will only import vCards or LDIF files.
>
> Try dragging the contacts from the Entourage window - you'll get vCard files.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>