Mac Contacts App Can Contacts Be In Multiple Folders

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Feb 28, 2016  Switch to the Folder list in outlook - use either Ctrl+6 on your keyboard or click the Folder icon (or word) in the navigation pane. This allows you to see where the contact folders are. If you are syncing with iCloud, all of the contacts folders should be empty except for the ones in the icloud data file. Hi LindsayHiggins, For your situation, I suggest you try to do the following steps: If the folders were created under on my computer folders, you can follow these steps to show them on the Outlook menu click Preferences Under Personal Settings click General, under folder list clear the Hide On My Computer folders check box and select the Show all account folders check box. I have found the folder. But Contacts will not import the 16MB of files for this user. I can copy the entire folder from the backup to the new installation, but Contacts shows the same 15 addresses no matter what I do. With 16MB of data in there, there must be hundreds of addresses. What am I overlooking? – user9290 May 9 '14 at 17:06. Jan 07, 2016  You can export your Apple Address Book contacts to a.vcf file and then drag that file into Outlook to import them. Benefits of multiple contact folders. Can be used for archival purposes or for containing contacts that you don’t want to sync across multiple devices especially if this involves a large number of contacts; Summation. There are better ways to organize contacts then using multiple contact folders for the vast majority of people. A clean simple app which will organize all your contacts. Supports Windows phone OS 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile. NO Ads and 100% free. Key Features - Add contact - Search contact - Update contact (Phone Numbers) - Create/Remove contact folders - Call contacts directly - Send SMS/Email directly - Send SMS/Email to all or selected contacts in a folder - Change the empty contact picture to.

Your contacts are just phone numbers and addresses; they're business connections, loved ones, and each contact's card likely contains sensitive information and important stuff that you don't want to lose. You likely have contacts on your iPhone or iPad, and maybe you even use Messages and FaceTime on your Mac. If that's the case, back up your contacts on your Mac to make sure that no one goes missing.

How to manually back up contacts on your Mac

Just like your iPhone or iPad, you have a Contacts app on your Mac, and you can manually back up all of your contacts right in the app.

Export them

  1. Launch the Contacts app on your Mac.
  2. Click on File in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
  3. Click Export.
  4. Click on Contacts Archive.

  5. Name the save file, choose where you'd like to save, and click Save.

    Source: iMore

From here, you can do whatever you want with the saved file. Upload it to Dropbox, Google Drive, or save it on a physical backup.

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Drag them to your desktop

Sometimes, exporting might not work 100%. Just one of those weird things. Even if it does, you're safest backing up your contacts another way too. (Thanks to commenter Gary Dauphin for the suggestion.)

  1. Launch the Contacts app on your Mac.
  2. Click All Contacts on the left.
  3. Click a contact.
  4. Press command-A on your keyboard. This will select all of your contacts.

  5. Click and drag your contacts to your desktop.

    Source: iMore

A .vcf file will be created, and you can add that to your cloud storage or physical backup or however you'd like to store it. You can also drag and drop individual contact cards if you don't want to back up all of them.

How to export your contacts to your Mac from iCloud

Using iCloud on the web, you can export your iPhone or iPad contacts straight to your Mac and then do whatever you'd like with them.

  1. Go to iCloud.com in your favorite browser.
  2. Sign in.
  3. Click Contacts.
  4. Click a contact.
  5. Press command-A on your keyboard. This will select all contacts.
  6. Click the gear icon in the bottom left of the window.

  7. Click Export vCard.

    Source: iMore

The file will download to your downloads folder on your Mac.

vCard vs. Contacts Archive

In February 2016, MacStories did a great job of explaining the differences between saving contacts as a vCard or archive and how the choice you select could affect a future import. The main points are worth repeating here since the execution remains the same even as OS X became macOS later that year.

The Export vCard choice only includes the selected contacts from the Contacts.app, while selecting Contacts Archive would include an export of all of your contacts. Moving forward, the former, when imported, will allow you to merge information with an existing contact. The latter, however, will replace your entire contacts .abbu database.

If you try to open an '.abbu' package in the OS X Contacts app, it will ask you if you want to replace your current contacts database with contents of '.abbu'. Let me repeat that for clarity: when importing a dot-abbu package, there is no option to merge with your existing data.

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