Address Export/Import with Address Book Application

[Kelli41385]

I am trying to share a "group" of addresses on my computer with
another person using the
Address Book application.

We would like to import them into her computer without having the
addresses integrate with her
existing addresses. We want it to stay as a "group" by itself.

I have the choice of vCard export or Address Book Archive File.

The Address Book Archive warns of overwriting current addresses when
import was attempted.
She hasn't tried importing the vCard file yet.

Does anyone have knowledge of the best way to accomplish this?

Thanks for your help!
Kelli : )

[Steven W Riggins]

I don't know of a way to do this other than to create a new user with
its own address book.

Groups are merely a list of existing addresses; they don't exist
independently so in order to be in a group, the address needs to be in
your address book.

[Kelli41385]

Thank you for such a quick reply!
It makes perfect sense. We'll give the New User thing a shot!
Kelli

[Rory Bowman]

If you are on the same local area network (in the same house or
office) it is possible to share your address book with selected folks
and even invite them to make changes, but this is not easy to do
otherwise.

Exporting the group as a vCard will export all of the data for all of
the addresses and (when that other person imports them) give the
option to add duplicate cards and/or overwrite existing folks with the
same names. When she goes to import the vCard into her own address
book, the program will warn her about this. If she wants them as a
group she will need to create the group herself, perhaps using the
"last import" group created at first as the starting point.

A simpler way (if you only want to share email addresses) might be to
address an email message to the group and then copy the "to" field
from that email, sending it to her in the "body" of an email, whence
she can copy and paste or add them to her own address book.

- Rory

[Kelli41385]

Thank you Rory! I have sent the addresses in the body of an email and
also pasted into an Appleworks document. We'll see how that works!
Kelli : )