{"id":38521,"date":"2023-02-20T16:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T21:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38521"},"modified":"2023-02-20T23:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T04:49:35","slug":"contacts-app-skipping-export-of-some-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/20\/contacts-app-skipping-export-of-some-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Contacts.app Skipping Export of Some Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyapps.org\/blog\/202302190700_contacts_empty_vcard.html\">Miles Wolbe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tinyapps.org\/blog\/202302190700_contacts_empty_vcard.html\"><p>Some contacts would not export to vCard from Contacts.app, instead exhibiting the following behavior:<\/p><ul><li><p>when clicked and dragged alone, the resulting file, &ldquo;Contact.vcf&rdquo;, was zero KB<\/p><\/li><li><p>when clicked and dragged with unaffected contact(s),  affected contact(s) would be skipped<\/p><\/li><li><p>when exported via File &#x2192; Export &#x2192; Export vCard&#8230;, affected contact(s) would be skipped if combined with unaffected contact(s), while no output would be produced if only affected contact(s) was\/were selected.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has the potential for data loss since, with a mixed selection, it will look like the contacts <em>were<\/em> exported. You would have to check the counts to realize the export was only partial. He was able to work around this using Automator.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/27\/exporting-archiving-e-mail-from-apple-mail\/\">Exporting\/Archiving E-mail From Apple Mail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/20\/restoring-contacts-from-a-time-machine-backup\/\">Restoring Contacts From a Time Machine Backup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles Wolbe: Some contacts would not export to vCard from Contacts.app, instead exhibiting the following behavior:when clicked and dragged alone, the resulting file, &ldquo;Contact.vcf&rdquo;, was zero KBwhen clicked and dragged with unaffected contact(s), affected contact(s) would be skippedwhen exported via File &#x2192; Export &#x2192; Export vCard&#8230;, affected contact(s) would be skipped if combined with unaffected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-02-20T21:39:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"f988cb93-0d25-4771-86b7-894f83c81bed","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-02-21T04:49:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-YjLkw0lR3GGt4lPg8gb7Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1040,131,176,30,2223],"class_list":["post-38521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-automator","tag-bug","tag-contacts","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38524,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38521\/revisions\/38524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}