Start by opening up AppleScript Editor (located in Applications/Utilities). This second method is actually more flexible, but it does require that you get familiar enough with AppleScript to create your own script or modify one of my examples to suit your needs. If you want, you can click “Review Duplicates.” to check that the changes are correct, or you can just click Import. You will be warned that the contacts are duplicates and will be updated. vcf file to import the contacts back into Address Book. Check the file to make sure it looks correct, and then save it.įinally, go to the Desktop and double-click on the. Now just click the “Replace All” button and every instance of the old information should be replaced with the new information. Press the Next button a few times to check that it is entered correctly, then enter the new information in the “Replace with” field. For example, addresses have semicolons to separate lines like item2.ADR type=HOME type=pref: 8 High Street Earls Court London SW5 9EK UK You might have to look in the file to see how this is formatted. In the “Find” text field, enter the old information, such as the old address or phone number. Now we are going to use TextEdit’s Find and Replace feature to find the existing information and replace it with the new information.Ĭhoose “Find.” from the Edit menu or press Command-F. vcf file onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock. Either open TextEdit and choose “Open.” from the File menu, or just drag the. vcf file that contains contact information for everyone in the group.
Once this is done, drag the group from Address Book onto the Desktop to create a single. Add all of the contacts you want to bulk edit into this group by dragging their names across from the contact list. Next, create a contact group by clicking on the plus (+) icon in the bottom left. If anything goes wrong in the following process, you can always just find this file and double-click it to restore your original Address Book. Open up Address Book and choose Export - Address Book Archive from the File menu. The first thing to do is to make a backup of your Address Book. For example, if you have a whole load of people at the same address, and they have all moved to a new address, or if a group of people share a phone number and they recently changed it to something new. This method is great if you have a group of people who share the same information. Here are two different methods, the first using TextEdit and the second using AppleScript. Unfortunately Address Book doesn’t support bulk editing a large number of contacts at once, but there are a couple of clever workarounds to achieve the same effect.
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