Recently a friend of mine issued a plea on Facebook:
“Calling all techies! [My wife] lost her contacts on iPhone during her latest sync. I’m restoring from a two-year-old backup, her second-most-recent backup, but wanted to restore from her contacts in her mail system. Unfortunately, she has a Mac but uses Outlook. This isn’t even an option in the iTunes/Info tab. Thoughts?”
Challenge…..ACCEPTED.
First, open up Outlook for Mac and click the Contacts tab. Then click File->Export…. Click the “Contacts to a list” option, then click the right arrow.
You’ll be prompted with a window to save the file. Name it something and put it somewhere by clicking Save. Click the Done button in Outlook and you’re finished exporting.
Now open up Address Book. Click File->Import… and find the file you exported from Outlook. Click the Open button and then you get this:
See that option that says “Ignore first card”? Make sure that’s checked. Now click the right arrow. You’ll be presented with the first contact in the list.
On this screen, for each contact, you can confirm that the fields are correctly mapped. You’ll have to do this for every contact. Or you can trust the import implicitly and just hit OK.
Once you have finished, clicking OK will import the contacts into Address Book and you’re good to go!
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