MAC Address Book How to export Contacts

MAC Address Book is a very simple Mac with app applications, MAC address Book import, I believe that almost every friend with Apple devices will use, then how to export the MAC address book contacts? Whether you want to share a contact card with someone, or you want to back up your Mac All contacts on the computer to the local, to do an export operation. The following PC6 small series to bring you the MAC Address book contacts export the use of tutorials.

1. How to share contact cards with others

Sharing contact cards with others is very simple (note that the method can only share one contact at a time).

First step: Start the "Address Book" (Contacts) application on the MAC. Click the name of the contact you want to share and select it (the name will be highlighted in blue).

Step Two: Click on the Share icon in the lower right corner of the contact card you want to share, and OS X will pop up several sharing options.

Step three: Now you can see that you have several ways to share your contacts. You can share by email, either through iMessage, or by using AirDrop.

2. How to export a contact

The above method is to share a contact with someone, but suppose you want to export this contact back to your computer what to do?

Step One: Open the Address Book application on your Mac, and then click the name of the contact you want to export to select it. The selected contact names will be highlighted in blue.

Step Two: In the menu bar above the screen, go to the file "-" export "-" export vcard"item.

Step three: At this point you will be able to choose the path where you want to save your business card. Change the path if you want, and then click the Save button.

Once the contact card is saved to the computer locally, it can be saved as a backup for later use. Of course, you can also share this contact card file with other people via email.

3. How to export multiple contacts at the same time

Now that we've exported a contact, we'll show you how to export multiple contacts at once. The process is similar to the one above.

First step: Start the "Address Book" Application on the MAC.

Step two: Press the Command key on the keyboard and click to select more than one contact. The selected contacts are highlighted in blue. You are free to choose the number of contacts you want to export.

Step three: In the upper-left corner of the screen, select the file "-" export "-" export vcard"entry.

Step Fourth: In the dialog box that appears, select the path of the exported contact. Click the Save button to save the file. Note that several of the contact information that you export will be consolidated in a single. vcf file.

You can now use this file as a backup to be used later. Of course, you can also share this contact card file with other people via email.

4. How to export all contacts to a. vcf file

There are two ways to export all of your contacts at once on your Mac. One is exported to a common format: exported. vcf files can be read almost by all operating systems, mail clients, and other exported file formats that are compatible with MAC only.

The first step: Start the Mac "Address Book" Application. If you have multiple contact groups like the author, be sure to click "All Contacts" in the upper-left corner of the application.

Step Two: Click any contact in your contact list to select it. Then press the Command+a key on the keyboard to select all. This will select all the contacts. They should all be highlighted in blue.

Step three: In the Application menu, select "File"-"export"-"export vcard" items. "

A dialog box will pop up asking you to save the path of the exported contact. Note that the contact will be exported to a. vcf file, and the. vcf file is a standard format recognized by almost all computers and e-mail clients.

Fourth step: Now you can keep this file on your computer as a backup.

5. How to export all contacts to a. abbu file

The. Abbu file format is a proprietary format, which means that only the "Address Book" Application of the MAC computer is readable. If you are absolutely certain that you will not use another operating system to read it later, export the contact to this proprietary. abbu file. Try it.

Any non-MAC platform email client (such as Gmail) will not allow you to import this format file. It is this usage constraint that makes me embarrassed to recommend this option to the. abbu file format because I prefer to export to the. vcf file format.

First step: Open the Address Book application.

Step Two: In the menu bar, select the "File"-"Export"-"Address Book archive" item.

The third step: As usual choose a good save path to click the "Save" button can be.

When you are done, you will be able to choose to save this exported. Abbu contact file as a backup on the MAC computer.