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Can not manually import Soocial backup into Outlook
Great product, Address book to Soocial Website to Gmail worked great. Having problems though with Soocial website to Outlook. I have details in another thread about that one. In the mean time, I simply tried to export my contacts from the social website and manually import them into Outlook. I can live with managing it this way till an improved Outlook beta comes out.
Problem is Outlook only wants to import the first contact contained in contacts.vcf
Am I missing something dumb? I opened contacts.vcf with excel and it appears all the data is there I can see tons of contacts, but outlook won't accept any of them after the first.
Problem is Outlook only wants to import the first contact contained in contacts.vcf
Am I missing something dumb? I opened contacts.vcf with excel and it appears all the data is there I can see tons of contacts, but outlook won't accept any of them after the first.
I’m annoyed but not upset
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Inappropriate?Hey Adam,
No, sorry it doesn't work. Outlook expects vcf files to just be one contact. I've struggled with the same thing.
I’m bummed outlooktreats vcf file different
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Inappropriate?Adam, Bart,
I've had the same problem trying to export my Mac's address book and import into Outlook on my PC. On the mac side of things there's a fairly simple program called vCard Splitter that facilitates this: http://homepage.mac.com/gaz/FileShari...
This will spit out a separate vCard file for each of your contacts.
But if you don't have a mac that won't do you any good. Another tool that will help is the online vCard converter found here: http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/ if you upload the file you should be able to get it back in CSV which outlook can handle.
Yet another possible avenue could be to import into thunderbird and export in a different format. I haven't used thunderbird in ages so I'm not sure if this is possible.
I’m glad this works but disappointed M$ couldn't follow the vcard spec
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Inappropriate?Hey Jkee!
That's a great solution. I just tried it and it works like a clock. Thanks!
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?Thanks Jkee, I do have a mac, and I also found something similar for XP, unfortunately those all appear to be pay to use solutions. But unfortunately I have reverted back to Plaxo sync until Soocial gets the outlook client working better. Hope they do soon cause I am really excited about this as I distrust Plaxo's intentions as a syncing tool.1 Comment Add a comment
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@ Adam
Me too. Waiting for Soocial to make it possible to export contacts into Outlook. Outlook cannot recognize multiples contacts on a vcard file. So until one or the other company finds a solution, will have to rely on Plaxo which I don't like. -
Inappropriate?Adam,
-Mac Only vCard Splitter is free/donation ware
-The online converter I linked to is free, they even provide the source code
-If it works, Thunderbird is also free
I'm not using the Outlook connection either. I decided to wait a while after reading some of the posts here. I also gave up on plaxo after the free version triplicated some of my contacts (I think it may have been a ploy to get you to use the pay version).
Gmail's address book has always left a bit to be desired. Going directly from outlook or a converted file from my mac a lot of the fields got a bit messed up. So until Google improves the contacts part of gmail (rumored to be in the works) I'll have lower expectations for syncing with gmail.
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Inappropriate?Maybe you should remove the text on the export page that says "This file is compatible with Apple's Addressbook or Microsoft's Outlook."
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