05 August 2012

Uploading multiple vCards into Gmail from Outlook, Mail or Thunderbird


Uploading multiple vCards into Gmail from Outlook, Mail or Thunderbird

1.     Go to your contacts in Outlook and highlight them all (ctrl-A). Right click and "Send Full Contact" then "In Internet Format (vCard)".  Depending on how many contacts you have, you may have to split them up into groups.  I did...
2.     An email should pop up with a bunch of attachments.  Send that email to yourself.
3.     From the email you just sent to yourself, highlight all the attachments, right-click, save as. Save them somewhere easy to access.
4.     Open up a command line. (Windows Key + R, then type "cmd" and press OK)
5.     Navigate to the folder where you saved the contacts.  I saved them in C:\contacts, so we'll use that.
6.     The command to type from the directory you have saved your contacts is:
copy   /B   *.vcf   single_contact_file.vcf
      Same with csv file also.
7.     This will create a file in that directory called " single_contact_file.vcf".  In that file will be the vCards of all of your contacts.
8.     Now you just go to Google.com/contacts, click "Import" on the right side of the page, and upload that file!

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