New Mac users forum: copy Gmail contacts to Mail

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by macnerd10 - 4/20/11 11:41 AM

In Reply to: Did you see step 4 at link? by R. Proffitt

Bob, I've run into that problem too. Just copied an URL and pasted it into the message text. Nothing happened. Did it several times. Nothing again. Had to manually input the address. And the final version contained all those ugly inserts. Guess, this is a glitch in the CNET interface. Adding an Edit capability would be also appreciated.

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Export your contacts from GMail in vCard format

by mrmacfixit - 4/18/11 11:59 AM

In Reply to: copy Gmail contacts to Mail by djohlson

Launch Address book and import the vCard file.

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I've had some problems using that approach

by Bill Osler - 4/18/11 6:40 PM

In Reply to: Export your contacts from GMail in vCard format by mrmacfixit

This evening I tried for the first time to import from gmail into the Mac address book. As Bob noted there is an option at gmail to export all or just a subset of the contacts. I clicked to export to vCard. The Mac contact list opened automagically and imported the contacts. Unfortunately, it scrambled a number of them in the process. IOW, it isn't always as simple as just following the instructions.

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