Eudora vCard Export

Introduction

Eudora stores its nicknames in a format which cannot be easily shared with other applications. 'Eudora vCard Export' converts nicknames to vCards which can then easily be imported into other programs (MacOS X Address Book, Palm Desktop 4, Entourage X, ...) or moved to your iPod.

Program Features

Eudora vCard Export is a simple drag'n'drop application which provides easy one-step conversion of Eudoras nicknames to individual vCard files. Nicknames marked as "Do not include this nickname when syncing" in Eudora will be skipped during import.

The program has only been tested converting files from Eudora 5.1 (OS X). Your mileage may vary for different versions...

Known Limitations

• Some programs only support a limited subset of the vCard specification (e.g., the MacOS X Address Book does not support multiple addresses for a contact) it may thus appear that information has been lost.
• The "Photo" pane of Eudora nicknames will be ignored.
• Since mailing lists (i.e., nicknames which will expand to multiple e-mail addresses) are not supported by the vCard standard, they will skipped upon import. For importing all your group information into the MacOS X Address Book, you might want to take a look at Eudora Mailbox Cleaner, another freeware application I wrote.

Program Usage

• Open the program directly from the Finder and set your preferred sort order ("First Last" or "Last, First") and name format.
• For a conversion of all your nicknames, drag your "Eudora Folder" onto the program's icon in the Finder. You can also convert individual files/folders by dropping them onto the Converter (folders will be scanned recursively for files contained in them).
• All nicknames will be converted to *.vcf files which will be stored inside a folder called "Contacts" located on your Desktop (if a folder named "Contacts" already exists, a new folder "Contacts-1", "Contacts-2", ... will be created).
• Drag the *.vcf files to another program or the "Contacts" folder of your iPod for import into these applications.

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Disclaimer

This little program is provided "as-is" and I don't take any responsability for the integrity of your nickname files - as usual it is a good idea to back up your nickname files before using the program.

The application is distributed free of charge - I wrote it for my own personal use and decided to make it available for the Macintosh community. I have a day job and I will still survive if nobody sends me money - I am happy with hearing that I saved someone's day with my little application. However, donations are not turned away;-) - please use this link to make a secure donation through the PayPal system. I could always use some money to upgrade my PowerBook so that I'll be able to develop other (hopefully useful) products or to treat myself to an iPod so I could use my own program...

'Eudora vCard Export' may not be redistributed via the web or any other electronic media except with explicit written consent by the author.

System Requirements

The program is a Carbon application so it runs in MacOS X as well as in older version of MacOS with CarbonLib (I only tested it in 9.2.2) - a PPC processor is required.

Download Link

You can get the latest version of the program here (201kB).

Version History

1.2.4 (January 5, 2003)

New features:

• Nicknames marked as "Do not include this nickname when syncing" in Eudora will be skipped during import.

1.2.3 (December 10, 2002)

Bug fixes/improvements:

• Fixed a problem where some characters (e.g., accented letters) of a contact's name would not show up when the resulting vCards were transferred to an iPod.
• Cleaned up the application's AppleScript dictionary.

1.2.2 (September 15, 2002)

Bug fixes/improvements:

• Better detection and conversion of Notes for Nicknames which had been entered in older versions of Eudora.

1.2.1 (April 27, 2002)

New features:

• Write all information from the "Other" pane in Eudora to the vCards (the information will be converted to unqualified "TEL:", "EMAIL:", and "URL:" entries). Whether these fields will actually show up properly after importing the vCards depends whether the program used supports multiple entries of the same type.
• Nicknames which only contain the "Full Name" field instead of "First" and "Last" names will use the full name as last name (the vCard would have no name in such a case before). This allows export of nicknames from Eudora versions prior to 5.x which only had a single "Name" field.

Bug fixes/improvements:

• Fixed a small mistake which resulted in improperly formatted work addresses for nicknames with both home and work address
• Save the vCards with file type 'TEXT' (instead of no type as before which would be interpreted as 'BINA' in MacOS 9 and confuse some programs)

1.2 (April 13, 2002)

New features:

• Added option to save individual vCards per nickname or one vCard per nickname file

1.1.3 (April 13, 2002)

Bug fixes/improvements:

• Split multiple line addresses into "extended address" and "street address" (some applications - like the MacOS X Address Book - do not correctly display multiple line addresses)
• Corrected a problem which would omit the city in the vCard output

1.1.2 (April 4, 2002)

New features:

• Added the option to convert nicknames which only have an email address (no real name entered) and use the nickname as either first or last name

Bug fixes/improvements:

• Removed all double "free" of memory which resulted in lots of output into the console.log

1.1.1 (April 1, 2002)

New features:

• Added the option to include the Eudora nickname to the vCard in the form 'First "Nick" Last'.

1.1 (March 31, 2002)

New features:

• You can now select the default sort order (i.e., the "FN" field of the vCard) to be either "First Last" or "Last, First". You can access this setting by directly opening the program from the Finder.

1.0 (March 29, 2002)

Initial release