Synchronizing Mac OS X Tiger's AddressBook with Gmail and Mail.app

Instead of hosting my own email, I have decided to switch back to Gmail.
They have just added Contact import/export and combined with POP access, it's go time.

Gmail understands CSV ( or comma separated values ) and Mac OS X AddressBook understands VCard, so I found a website VCard to CSV Converter.
It couldn't understand my vCard, but with 1 preferences change, we were in business.

1. So in preferences > vCard > 3.0 format I switched to 2.1


2. Close preferences


3. Go to Address Book and highlight all your contacts.


4. Export as vCard to your desktop


5. Goto http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/


6. Choose File - vCard file from your desktop


7. Format - Gmail


8. convert -> Save this file to your desktop


9. Gmail click Contacts on left hand side


10. Import the csv file from your desktop.

Now all your Mail.app contacts are in Gmail.

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