File conversion software help please

snaver

Is there a free and reliable way to convert contacts from CSV to V Cards without having to do them one or a few at a time please? All the freeware I have found seems to only do them singly or with only some of the information and V card Wizard only does 5 at a time on the freeversion, without paying the $19.99 upgrade fee. I have over 300 to do. Is there any way of doing this simply or quickly without paying to upgrade please? Any help greatly appreciated.

CardinalWolsey

GMail - if you go in to contacts you can import and export in both CSV and V Card format. And its free

snaver

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

GMail - if you go in to contacts you can import and export in both CSV and V Card format. And its free

Thanks so much, Cardinal. I don't have a G Mail account and the contacts are in Outlook, which only allows export as CSV. Forgive my technophobic ignorance, but could I import them to G Mail (after opening an account) and then convert or export them from there?

CardinalWolsey

Where do you need to get your contacts to from Outlook? Describe your overall requirement, and we can probably assist better (rather than what you believe your solution to be). e.g. "All of my contacts are in Outlook, and I want to make them available in XYZ. What is the simplest way of doing this?". There may be other options rather than exporting/importing in different formats.

snaver

Sorry, Cardinal, should have made it clearer. I have contacts in Outlook from an old Windows phone, which I want to export to an iPhone, getting them into iCloud, rather than via Outlook on the iPhone (which has started flashing up regular error messages). Having spoken to Apple, the only way to do this is using V Cards, but Outlook will only export as CSV files in Excel. I therefore need to convert the Outlook CSV files to V Cards in order to import these to iCloud and delete Outlook on the iPhone. Does this make sense? Sorry for rambling!

CardinalWolsey

Outlook - Online or locally installed on a PC?

snaver

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

Outlook - Online or locally installed on a PC?

Online. I think I only have a trial version on my PC

CardinalWolsey

OK. Export in CSV from Outlook (1), Import to GMail (2), then Export from GMail in VCF (3):

1) In Outlook, go to "People". Click on "Your Contacts". Click on "Manage / Export Contacts". Select "All contacts". Click on Export. Your browser will download a file called contacts.csv

2) In Gmail, select "Contacts". Click on "More", then "Import...". Choose your file, and then click "Import".

3) In Gmail, select "Contacts". Click on "More", then "Export...". Click on "All contacts", and "vCard Format". Click "Export". Your browser will download a file called "contacts.vcf"

You now have a vcf format file that you can import in to your Apple devices. Apologies, I gave up on iDevices some time ago, so can't advise on the best way of importing that. From what I have seen online though, you can just email yourself the vcf file, and from the mail app on your iphone/ipad select the file and it should just take you through the import...

snaver

Great advice, thank you Cardinal. I have created the vcards, but GMail doesn't offer me the option to save them anywhere on my computer, so when I try to import them to iCloud, it asks me to select a file that doesn't exist Any thoughts please as to how to save the files please anyone, or where the downloads are located on my computer?

snaver

Sorry, I was being dense... they were in the downloads folder of the computer's C drive... all imported to Apple now! Very happy! Thank you!