Help! Can't Export contacts from Address Book to Gmail.

[jhkaplan]

I'm a longtime iPhone/mac user who just got a Windows Phone 7 to play around with...I'm jumping back and forth between the IP4 and WP7.

I have all of my contacts in iCloud. I had them before in Google and transferred them over to icloud when it came out.

Now, obviously WP7 does not have iCloud support; so I'm forced to use Google for my contacts. I cannot find a way to get my contacts out of iCloud and into gmail though, to sync with my phone.

I have address book synced with icloud, but an export from Address book only sends out a ABBU file or an individual Vcard...no way to to this in bulk.

Does anyone know of a good way to get my contacts out of icloud and into google? Also, what about keeping gmail and icloud in sync (that's probably a pipedream)

Thanks!

 

[Jason Edwards]

I use Contacts Sync for Google Gmail from the app store. I use this to keep my mac and my gmail contacts synced. Works very well for me.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/contacts-sync-for-google-gmail/id451691288?mt=12

They also make an iOS version to keep your iPhone/iPad synced. I dont use it so I can not comment on its abilities.

Jason

 

[funkahdafi]

I'm a longtime iPhone/mac user who just got a Windows Phone 7 to play around with...I'm jumping back and forth between the IP4 and WP7.

I have all of my contacts in iCloud. I had them before in Google and transferred them over to icloud when it came out.

Now, obviously WP7 does not have iCloud support; so I'm forced to use Google for my contacts. I cannot find a way to get my contacts out of iCloud and into gmail though, to sync with my phone.

I have address book synced with icloud, but an export from Address book only sends out a ABBU file or an individual Vcard...no way to to this in bulk.

Does anyone know of a good way to get my contacts out of icloud and into google? Also, what about keeping gmail and icloud in sync (that's probably a pipedream)

Thanks!

you can't.

if your contacts are on iCloud, they are not stored locally (address book displays data on iCloud). thus there is no way to sync to google.

only way around this is to store contacts locally (on your Mac) and then use address book's google sync feature. then on iOS you do the same, disable iCloud contacts and enable google sync (set up google account as exchange account will do the trick).

not google's fault, btw. apple does not allow third party apps to tap into the iCloud caldav servers.

 

[sciscio]

You can use Qontact

Hi,
you can export the whole address book using Qontact:

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/qontact/e3404be4-324f-46e3-b47d-5561c676cad6

the app is free.

Hope this help.