John, I am ok with the way I save my lists via the pdf . I tried that with the Vcard, but I only got the one card, not all my 250 names, so I am doing what Bill Rising told me, just to pdf them all in my print dialog box and instead printing just save as pdf. Anne is the one now trying to back up her addresses. And i am trying to tell her what Bill told me worked for him, and it has been working for me , too. ( I hated to have to print out a list on paper every time I changed something in it) Do you remember in the earlier version of addressbook they did not even have a list printing version at all)- And as to these back-up data files, what are they good for:? I have never been able to get them returned to their original forms. If I try to open a file like that, I need to give an application. I usually choose textedit, but what I get is everything else but what i expect. A bunch of data with which I don't know what to do. Now maybe somebody in this honorable group can pull this off, but my knowledge is of the minor kind. Marta On Feb 3, 2005, at 15:56, John Robinson wrote:
> Marta, > > I use Now Contact, but I am helping another person with address book > and I found that if you highlight on the "all" icon on the address > program and then go under "File" and then "export Vcard", tell it > where you want to place it, you will then have a file with the name of > "all" in that location. > > If you then double click the file it will attempt to put the files > back into the address book for you. I didn't actually allow, I was > just trying to see if it would work, and it told me it was going to > override 53 names. > > So, it seems that if you save that file ever so often you would have a > complete backup of your directory, or you could email it to another > for them to import on another machine. > > John R. > > > On Feb 3, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> Anne, you want to click print only in the pulldown menu under file, >> then you get the print window and if you have your addressbook open >> and highlighted the list you want printed ( all, or macaddicts, >> medical etc) then you want to click (preview to see what it looks >> like) and "save as pdf" and then you save it on the desktop or >> wherever. I shall send a picture I took with my grab appl. in a >> separate e-mail, since I am not sure it would go through this list. >> Marta >> On Feb 3, 2005, at 15:30, Anne Cartwright wrote: >> >>> Marta, >>> >>> On Thursday, February 3, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Marta Edie wrote: >>> >>>> Anne, just open your addressbook and click on "all", >>> >>> >>> OK up to this point, but when I click on Print I don't get any way >>> to modify or show what I want printed. What am I doing wrong? >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>>> then under file click on print. this will give you a window >>>> showing your addresses on the left. On the right you can modify >>>> what all you want printed, names, addresses, birthdays, emails etc. >>>> You click on the ones you want and then,instead of clicking " >>>> print", just click save as pdf. And voil?, you have a pdf file with >>>> all your entries to save anywhere. >>>> Marta >>>> On Feb 3, 2005, at 11:28, Anne Cartwright wrote: >>>> >>>>> Marta( or Bill, or anyone), >>>>> >>>>> How do you set the Address Book for list printing? I can't access >>>>> any of the data except through the application. Also through the >>>>> application I can backup the Address Book, but that just gives me >>>>> another (newer) file that I can't access. >>>>> >>>>> Anne >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 09:06 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Anne, when I tried to do the same thing i had trouble. So Bill >>>>>> Rising told me to set it for list printing and then make a pdf >>>>>> copy and that is the way I keep a copy of my addressbook which I >>>>>> then keep on a cd and on my iDisk. I do this now everytime I >>>>>> add or change addresses. >>>>>> Marta >>>>>> On Feb 2, 2005, at 20:17, Anne Cartwright wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> How can I make a backup of my Address Book. I am using Apple >>>>>>> Mail and all I can find is the application. Where is the data? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Also is there some way to backup the address book in Entourage? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for any help. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Anne Cartwright >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>>>>> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>>>>> | List posting address: >>>>>>> <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>>>>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>>>> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>>>> | List posting address: >>>>>> <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>>>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>>> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
