hello everyone,

i have a contact database with over a thousand addresses in it which i would like to export to apple's address book application. is this possible?

i want to have everything in address book because it is integrated with many other applications such as mail and safari, but i don't like the limitations of address book. ideally i would work with my fm pro database and just export everything to address book every now and then to keep it up to date.

any suggestions are highly appreciated

many thanks

alexandra

i have found some solutions for this mentioned in other threads and a script that one can download from the filemaker homepage, but none of them seem to work with os x 10.3.4 and fm 7...

anyone had any luck exporting filemaker 7 databases, or individual records, to vcard or ldif format?

thanks!

Hey Alexandra! I don't know if you're still looking, but my need/want was similar to yours-I work with my FM databases for most things, but wanted at least some (many) of my FM contacts in Address Book for the integration with other apps. I think I used Address Book Importer 1.2.3 (free ) for the initial import of a FM tab-delimited export . But for quick one-at-a-time AB additions or updates as I add or modify FM contacts, I've been using VCF Export, by Ryo Sode. (I think I found it on the Filemaker website, in the XSLT files section.) With a little scripting (FM and Applescript), a quick keystroke or button exports an individual contact as a vcf, then opens and adds it to AB.

I have noticed that with FM7 and Panther, I get a message from AB that there was a problem during the import. But don't know what that is, since the contact adds or updates just fine.