Copying contact pictures between Entourage and Address Book

[macman365]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I'm trying to make up for the fact the SyncServices does not synchronise contact categories/groups and pictures between Entourage and Address Book. I've written an AppleScript that copies all Entourage categories for contacts to corresponding groups in Address Book, which works pretty well.

My next challenge is copying contact pictures between both applications. The problem is that I just can't figure out how to copy a contact image from Entourage to Address Book or vice versa. I can access both properties in each application, but I can't move the data between them. I suspect it's some kind of type mismatch issue, but I just can't figure it out.

Has anyone else tried this, or have any suggestions?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi,

I'm trying to make up for the fact the SyncServices does not synchronise
contact categories/groups and pictures between Entourage and Address
Book. I've written an AppleScript that copies all Entourage categories
for contacts to corresponding groups in Address Book, which works pretty
well.

I had a simple script that wrote the category name to the Notes so that
you could run another one to restore them after a sync to another
computer.
http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?p=113

Your description actually sounds more advanced. Did you place the
scripts online anywhere??

My next challenge is copying contact pictures between both applications.

Not an easy matter...

The problem is that I just can't figure out how to copy a contact image
from Entourage to Address Book or vice versa. I can access both
properties in each application, but I can't move the data between them.
I suspect it's some kind of type mismatch issue, but I just can't figure
it out.

I looked into that as well and couldn't find anything in the AppleScript
dictionaries that would allow me to manipulate the contact pictures.

Corentin