Combine / Merge ? / Purge ? / Share ? ... Address Books From Two User Accounts

[jamesmcnee]

My wife and I each have a user account on the same computer in OS X
and in each user we use Entourage for email and address book stuff.

I have some address data she doesn't, she has some I lack, some of
mine are old and out of date, bla bla bla.

It would be great to have one master address book but two separate
emails -- but I think I've been down that road and it isn't possible.
Failing a current, common master ...

What is the best way to combine our two address books, sift through,
clean up, etc. and then export back to the individual users?

We just want to share address books not emails and calendars.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

I'm using:

Entourage 2004 for Mac -- 11.3.3
OS X 10.4.9
iMac G5

 

[Diane Ross]

My wife and I each have a user account on the same computer in OS X
and in each user we use Entourage for email and address book stuff.

I have some address data she doesn't, she has some I lack, some of
mine are old and out of date, bla bla bla.

It would be great to have one master address book but two separate
emails -- but I think I've been down that road and it isn't possible.
Failing a current, common master ...

What is the best way to combine our two address books, sift through,
clean up, etc. and then export back to the individual users?

We just want to share address books not emails and calendars.

Entourage syncs to Apple's Address Book. From that you can sync to dot mac.
Have one dot mac address book that you use as your master.

Another option would be to export your addresses as a tab delimited file.
Import that file into Address Book #1. Run Remove duplicates script. Export
Address Book #1 as tab delimited file and import it back into Address Book
#2. Clean up duplicates.

As you can see using sync services is much easier.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
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