Export Address Book is an app which (unsurprisingly) exports all the data in your Address Book into an independent data file that you can archive, use with a Microsoft Word Merge or FileMaker database or import into your favourite web-based email service.
It is a universal binary and comes with an Automator action to automate repeated exports.
The app overs considerable control over the export process, allowing you to select which records to export, which fields from those records, how to order them and whether to give the exported data customised labels:
A new version (1.1) released today includes two new formats, CSV and HTML tables, for the exported data and more options for handling line breaks, as you can see from the new options pane:
Export Address Book is shareware (10 Euros = USD 12.50) and is available from the developer’s web site
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This can be a handy programme, and it is nice to see an update with more export options, but there is one format that seems to be forever overlooked by these types of utilities – vcard.
Why is there still no application/plugin that will export chosen Addressbook.app fields into the vcard format? Am I the only person who wants this functionality?
What I like about Export Address book is that one can choose a Group of contacts – and also choose certain people within that Group – for export. However, I would like the field selection changed from pulldown to checkboxes. The pulldown menu selection really slows down the field selection process for me.
The ability to have/save a template of different export fields within the application would be useful too. That is, associate certain fields to be exported – not contacts – with “work”, “personal” , “family” or whathaveyou.
I need to play around with the application as a little more – I may have a use for it in Filemaker input workflow – but without the .vcf export I am hesitant on purchasing.