vCards: From FileMaker to iPod.

[iAsimis]

Hello

I have been trying to get my contacts to my iPod. They are in FileMaker Pro 6 and i can't find a way to make them to vCards or a format that Adress Book can read to export them as vCards form it.

I tried downloading a couple of shareware utilities and didn't help either.

Any help on this would be apreciated.

Good Day
Asimis

[Cheryl]

Because FileMaker is a stickler you might need to manually enter in Address book, then export them to the iPod.

Do you have MacLinkPlus? I wonder if that can convert them to the address book? Or into text so that you can create vCards.

[iAsimis]

I guess there is no other way then re-entering all of them in Adress Book Thanks Cheryl

[brianleahy]

If you have MS Excel, you can use the FileMaker plugin to extract the address data into a spreadsheet, then save as a tab-delimited file, which I believe can be imported into Address book.

You may also be able to create a 'digestible' file directly from FileMaker with the File/Export command.

[iAsimis]

Tried the Excel thingy, it din't work. Adress Book can only import vCards and LDIF files. Not sure what the later is.

Anyway thanks for the help.

[brianleahy]

Well, if you have Excel, you presumably also have Entourage. So you could:

1 - export from FMP to a tab-delimted file
2 - import the tab-delimited file to Entourage
(File/Import/Text file...)
3- export the contacts from Entourage as vCards by dragging them from the Entourage Address Book window directly into a Finder folder window.
4 - import the vCards into Address Book

Let me know if it works!!

[iAsimis]

Hello brianleahy

Thanks for the tip, I think this way it should work . I will try to do it tomorrow because I don't have the file or FileMaker at home.

Good Day
Asimis