OS X Address Book and linux address books

[Jay Savage]

This is a follow up to a question put to the list earlier, which got a 
little lost.  It is possible to take addresses from Address Book into 
YDL, although it's labor intensive.  The cards Address Book produces for 
iPod contacts are standard vCard files, and the main problems with them 
are 1) they are exported with spaces in the filenames, and 2) they need 
to have the extension (.vcf) added.  for thise of you who do not export 
your contacts to a 'pod, the way to export the cards is to click on the 
little head icon of the contact you want to export, and drag it to the 
desktop.  you can then rename the file and transfer it to your YDL 
machine by your preferred method.  then open your address book 
application and import the file.  For some reason I've unfortunately 
never had luck with the import function in Evolution--my preferred 
e-mail/addressbook program, but Gnome Card reads the mac vcard files 
perfectly.  If anyone has thoughts on importing to Evolution, please let 
me know.

best,

jay savage