Address Book Importer 2.0
Address Book Importer will do what it says; it imports contacts in CSV or tab delimited format into Address Book.
Address Book has its own import facility, of course, but Address Book Importer offers greater control and flexibility over the data to be imported, allowing customized mapping to Address Book’s fields.
The updated version, released today, has been completely rewritten and now features a new interface, full support for all the Address Book fields added in Panther in Tiger, support for TouchBase Pro users, a French localisation, automatic update support, support for different text encodings and the ability to save and re-use import mappings.
It is free for a “one-off” use but the developer asks for a USD 10 donation if you use it regularly. You can download it from his website.
It obviously operates flawlessly; check out the Address Book Importer Help Page. ;-)
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March 6th, 2007 at 11:24 am
This program works wonders, you tell it what you need, it spits it out to your addy book!
The only problem I am having is;
Every, EVERY ONE of the dates imported are all December 31, 2000!
What am I doing wrong? I’ve emailed the programmer Roy but no response, I would gladly fork over the $10 as in my position I need to do the address book import from .CSV about once a month using three different sources (I guess that’s 3 times a month)
And yes, I’m using the latest, greatest on my MacBook 10.4.8