[Owncloud] (Apple Address Book?) Import existing contacts to Contacts app?

Georg Ehrke ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de
Fri Feb 3 23:29:51 UTC 2012


Hi,
for OS X and iOS you need a special address. You should take a look at 
http://owncloud.org/support/usage/contacts/ , to learn more about 
setting up carddav on os x.

Cheers, Georg

Am 04.02.2012 00:25, schrieb Advrk Aplmrkt:
> In my case I am migrating from Apple Address Book on my Mac. But when
> I try to add the CardDAV account stated in my ownCloud Contacts app, I
> get an error in Address Book saying:
>
> "Address Book couldn't discover the account settings for the CardDAV
> server "https://[my
> domain]/owncloud/apps/contacts/carddav.php/addressbooks/[my
> username]/default". Make sure the user name and server address are
> correct, then click Create."
>
> I am running Apple Address Book on Mac OS X 10.6.8, can anyone help
> with this? Thanks.
>
> On 3 February 2012 17:11, Achim Bohnet<ach at mpe.mpg.de>  wrote:
>> Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012, 12:48:49 schrieb Advrk Aplmrkt:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> This is kind of basic, so I apologise if I am missing something obvious.
>>> Is there a way to mass import an existing set of contacts into my
>>> ownCloud instance? I have a bunch of contacts that I hope to migrate
>>> to ownCloud, but can't manually re-enter each one because there are so
>>> many!
>>
>>
>> AFAIR when I last played with owncloud, I added the empty owncloud
>>
>> addressbook to my contacts app (kaddressbook in my case) and moved
>>
>> with drag&  drop the list of my existing contacts to owncloud.
>>
>>
>>
>> Achim
>>
>>> If so, what is the preferred file format?
>>> Thanks!
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