| How to import contacts (vcf) | Ispanecabg | 09/08/03 9:25 | I see this was asked 4 more times before, buth no answer. How to import 200+ vCard files at once ? One by one is stupid idea, and total loss of time :) |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | boomerbubba | 09/08/06 9:24 | Contrary to what JohnW2 says, Gmail does support importing vCards. Your problem is that you have exported your vCard files as separate files instead of a single file, which Gmail can also import. Just go into the folder that contains your vcf fil |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | Daniel Redgate | 09/11/30 7:07 | Thank you soooo much. I spent ages looking for this answer! |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | Tarzan00 | 09/12/10 6:11 | I got the same problem, but I'm on Mac Os X 10.6...DO somebody have the trick to combine all the vcf card into 1 ??? Thanks ! |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | artform | 10/03/02 12:41 | To combine multiple VCF files into one on OS X, simply open up Terminal and navigate to the directory where all your VCF files are. Run this command: fmt -sp *.vcf > addresses.vcf Then, import the resulting addresses.vcf file into Gmail. This UNIX |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | yogi1 | 10/03/11 10:05 | @boomerbudda, @artformHey...guys I have same problem. I tried your solution but it never work. Please tell me another solution. |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | mattrazzo | 10/03/19 11:50 | No dice - "Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts." My problem is I have contact pictures on each contact card. Exporting to a CSV strips that and would mean a few hours of me reattaching photos to contact cards. I see Googl |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | mattrazzo | 10/03/19 12:22 | I found the trick in another thread. Use "copy /B *.vcf all_in_one.vcf" and it will retain the photos. |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | pookasydi | 10/04/20 7:04 | In OS X.6, you can highlight all the files you want to export in Address Book and export then, it'll make one file called vcard.vcf. |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | Stroy | 10/05/28 7:45 | After merging all vcf to one file by.. fmt -sp *.vcf > addresses.vcf or alternativaly you can use cat *.vcf >> allinone i found that there is no new line between cards - so in file it looks: "END:VCARDBEGIN:VCARD". To fix this you can use sed -i 's |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | rockyridge | 10/06/03 19:55 | I have around 1,000 contacts from my palm treo 750. I put them into outlook, then exported them into about 20 different vcards (because the email was too big to do them all). So, I emailed the Vcards to my gmail account and then tried to import th |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | Benny-Nashville | 10/06/07 22:43 | In windows I had the same issue with using the "COPY *.vcf final.vcf" command ("END:VCARDBEGIN:VCARD"). Instead I used this and it worked fine: for /F "delims=" %i in ('dir/b *.vcf') do @more "%i" >> final.vcf |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | ianDG | 10/07/25 6:54 | I cannot get Gmail to import a vCards.vcf file from Mac Mail. I get an error message "There were problems with your CSV file, so no contacts were imported." The Learn More link leads to "Importing contacts by CSV" which requires that a CSV file is |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | gusmo | 10/08/02 9:14 | If you need to import a single vCard (From Outlook, *.vcf) to your Gmail contacts; say you got it as an attachment to a Gmail message: download card (somewhere you can find it); open notepad (from your accessories folder); File>open the vCard (*.vcf |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | ianDG | 10/08/02 9:56 | Thx Gusmo - I agree - too many questions on this subject - Wake Up Gmail Team! However, is there any way to import ALL of the contacts from Mac Mail to Gmail? (The Mc team is not any better than the Gmail Team!) |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | moo3shun | 10/12/06 7:29 | Thx, It's work... |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | robsonwt | 11/01/06 11:52 | I've tried the Copy option on Windows but when I import on GMail it transform all my vcards into one contact with all e-mails as alternative e-mails of one and only contact. It didn't split up into several contacts. |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | gbucci | 11/01/25 3:21 | Under Mac OS I did the followin'Open terminal where your vcf resides. cat *.vcf >> addresses.vcf vi addresses.vcf then in vi type: :%s/END:VCARD/END:VCARD\r/g :x This has worked for me.Thanks to everibody for the hints.Cheers |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | orlyco23 | 11/02/07 1:30 | import contacts from Microsoft Outlook 2007 i did all this :Select File > Import/Export > Export from the main menu - Choose Comma Separated Values (Windows) > Select "Contacts" > Save exported file but when i import to gmail - the list copied b |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | kawsarhossain | 11/03/05 10:37 | after exporting gmail contact its come out 1 single .vcf file nd how can i extract it to my all contacts pls any 1 give solution in here nd also mail me kawsar...@gmail.com |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | saandip | 11/03/11 6:09 | Procedure for Merging Contacts from separate places and uploading in Gmail : I am posting this becuase i spent 2 days on this and tried various methods and arrived at this simplest procedure. I hope this reduces others efforts. How did I convert tra |
| Re: How to import contacts (vcf) | mKayyali | 11/03/16 15:31 | @saandip: Thank you so much, you saved my day... as you said exactly, all commands not worked with me only this one ( for /F "delims=" %i in ('dir /b *.vcf') do @more "%i" >> all.vcf ) worked as charm, Thanks again |