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Exporter for Contacts Changelog

What's new in Exporter for Contacts 1.13.2

Sep 5, 2022
  • Exporter for Contacts 2 is out now and all users of version 1 are eligible for the free upgrade, regardless of when they purchased the app. Note that the upgrade requires macOS 11 Big Sur and for billing reasons you can upgrade no earlier than 90 days after purchasing Exporter for Contacts 1. This update supports you better in performing the upgrade.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.13.1 (Dec 2, 2020)

  • Fixes a problem with the save dialog that could cause the program to stop responding under macOS 10.15 and earlier versions of the OS.
  • Fixes a bug that prevented the export file from being created under Mac OS X 10.9 and 10.10.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.13 (Nov 15, 2020)

  • Added support for macOS 11 Big Sur
  • Added support for Macs with Apple Silicon processor
  • On launch, the app no longer opens additional windows such as the Template Chooser when you open a document directly from disk.
  • When starting the export, the Save Panel now initially switches to the directory saved with the export template.
  • Export templates should no longer be marked as "Changed" if no changes have been made.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.12.5 (Mar 26, 2020)

  • Fixes a bug introduced in the last update that caused a code signing check to fail for no reason for some users.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.12.4 (Mar 26, 2020)

  • Exported vCards now retain the UID of the contact they are derived from. Note that this identifier is device-dependent. It only uniquely identifies the contact on the current device.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.12.3 (Mar 11, 2020)

  • Street names are now correctly extracted from a postal address if the "Street" field does not contain a street number at all.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.12.2 (Jan 25, 2020)

  • Fixes a bug that could lead to a crash at app launch.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.12.1 (Jan 17, 2020)

  • Added support for these fields: Phonetic Company, Street Name (without house number), House Number.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.12 (Jan 17, 2020)

  • Added support for the upcoming version of the operating system
  • You can now support further development by dropping a few coins into the tip jar.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.11.2 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • The app now adopts several security features provided by macOS Mojave for improved protection of your sensitive data.
  • Fixed a potential crash when running the app on macOS 10.11 and earlier versions of the OS

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.10.1 (Aug 21, 2017)

  • The export format options sheet will now resize correctly again when switching formats.
  • Improved compatibility with the upcoming macOS version.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.10 (Jun 20, 2017)

  • All of a contact's email addresses, phone numbers and several other properties can now be exported as a list into a single field (tagged with labels, if desired).
  • Blank columns are now omitted by default to reduce clutter.
  • Improved compatibility with macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
  • Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.12 (May 8, 2017)

  • The Fritz!Box template now also supports email addresses
  • Additional bug fixes and stability improvements

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.11 (Sep 16, 2016)

  • Fixed an issue that could lead to a crash on opening templates.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.10 (Jul 20, 2016)

  • This update fixes a performance issue to speed up adding contacts to the export list.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.9 (Jul 13, 2016)

  • This update improves compatibility with future versions of the operating system and changes the app’s name to “Exporter for Contacts” to be consistent with trademark guidelines.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.8 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • Contains a new export template for Fritz!Box routers with Fritz!OS versions that do allow more than three phone numbers per contact
  • Fixes several minor issues with the "Outlook for Windows" templates, generated vCards, and with Excel files

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.7 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • New property type "Display Name". The format is taken from the settings in Contacts.
  • New property type "Contact Type". Can be "Person", "Company", "Resource" or "Room".
  • With the new property type "Blank Field" you can now create empty placeholder columns in data files.
  • Added a new export template "Outlook 2003 for Windows" which is still required by some stone-aged webmailers.
  • Added a new export template "Contact List". Creates a plain text file in a "value (label)" format. Import the generated text file into a word processing app and apply some formatting to create a simple address book.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.6 (Aug 29, 2014)

  • Includes a new export template "Plain Text" (requires OS X 10.8 or newer)
  • Includes a further improved Fritz!Box Adressbuch XML Template

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.5 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • Fixes a vCard format issue
  • Includes an improved Fritz!Box Adressbuch XML Template (Thanks to Lutz Bergmann)

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.4 (Jun 23, 2014)

  • Phone numbers that can not automatically be formatted are now exported unformatted. Previously, an empty value was returned.
  • Better support for multiple address books

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.3 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • Fixes a crash when parsing malformed contact data.
  • Fixes some GUI glitches in the XML format options panel.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.2 (Apr 7, 2014)

  • New export template: Gmail Contacts CSV. It maps fields and labels as close as possible and supports automatic group assignment. Requires OS X 10.9.
  • The vCard export format now supports the CATEGORIES field.
  • Fixes an issue when saving the data file, which resulted in an error message saying that “the file does not exist”.
  • Dates in Excel files are now based on the 1904 date system.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9.1 (Mar 1, 2014)

  • Fixes an issue that prevented the app from launching when the preferred system language is not set to English or German.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.9 (Feb 28, 2014)

  • Features a new Template Chooser with ready-made templates for many different formats
  • Phone numbers are now formatted by default. The format can be specified in the app preferences. This feature requires OS X 10.7 or newer.
  • Fixes an issue with social profile and message properties

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.8.3 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • The "Address" field works correctly now with the "Primary" label.
  • Address fields like street, zip, etc., are part again of the default export template.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.8.2 (Nov 6, 2013)

  • Excel Workbook export format: Fixed a compatibility issue with FileMaker and Numbers

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.8.1 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • New export field "Address" for exporting formatted street addresses incl. line breaks
  • Excel Workbook export format: Improved support for cells with multiple-lines content
  • CSV and TSV export formats: Improved support for year-less dates
  • Messaging and social profile fields with multiple identical labels are now exported correctly
  • You can now reset all “Don’t Ask Me” warnings

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.8 (Feb 26, 2013)

  • New export format: XML. Can optionally be transformed using custom XSLT pattern rules and templates.
  • "HTML Table" export format: You can now insert custom HTML code like CSS styles into the HTML header. Some issues with entity encoding were also fixed.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.7.7 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • "Excel Workbook (.xlsx)" export format: Fixed a bug that caused some date values ​​were exported as text.
  • Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash on launch.
  • Enhanced for the MacBook Pro with Retina display.
  • File names of exported vCards are now closer to the ones that "Contacts" does generate.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.7.6 (Aug 1, 2012)

  • Labels of contacts with a MS Exchange Server origin are now marked with an "Exchange" suffix and label indices are now enclosed in parentheses to avoid naming conflicts. Adjust your existing templates, if necessary.
  • vCard-Export: Fixed an issue with multiple street addresses when they share the same label

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.7.5 (Jun 13, 2012)

  • Added quick menus to the "Add All" buttons for easier access to Address Book groups and fields.
  • Excel Workbook export format: Fixed an issue with Excel files with more than 701 columns.
  • Mac App Store only: The app is now sandboxed.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.7.4 (Apr 27, 2012)

  • [NEW] TSV and CSV export formats: Added support for additional text encoding formats.
  • [CHANGED] "Excel Workbook" is now the default export format.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.7.3 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • "Excel Workbook (.xlsx)" export format: A bug was fixed that caused that sometimes individual letters were not exported

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.7.2 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • "Excel Workbook (.xlsx)" export format: Improved compatibility with Microsoft Excel ;-) by filtering out bad characters
  • Fixed an issue that caused the app to crash on startup under certain circumstances

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.7.1 (Sep 20, 2011)

  • Added support for Social Network Profiles that were introduced in OS X 10.7.
  • "vCard (multiple entries)" export format: Fixed a bug that prevented the "Save As" panel from opening.
  • "Excel Workbook (.xlsx)" export format: Year-less dates are now displayed correctly in Excel.
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.7 (Jun 29, 2011)

  • [NEW] New export format: Excel Workbook (.xlsx). You no longer need to fiddle around with CSV files if you need to import your contacts into Excel, Numbers or FileMaker.
  • [FIXED] Minor changes and fixes.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.6 (May 2, 2011)

  • [CHANGED] Export Address Book requires now Mac OS X 10.6 or newer.
  • [NEW] Export templates for common applications like Outlook, FileMaker, Excel are now available from within the application. Choose File > New from the menu bar.
  • [NEW] Notes field: You can now limit the number of characters when exporting to a CSV file, TSV file or an HTML-Table.
  • [CHANGED] Manually overridden column titles are now displayed in bold and are no longer changed to the default when changing the field type or label.
  • [FIXED] Minor bugfixes.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.5.3 (Oct 31, 2010)

  • [FIXED] Improved stability of the vCard export module when using the "Primary" label

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.5.2 (Aug 16, 2010)

  • [FIXED] Exporting notes in vCards was broken on Mac OS X 1.6.x because of a changed behavior in one of the underlying system routines. As a consequence, ...
  • [CHANGED] ... the vCard format 2.1 can’t be supported any longer :-/
  • [FIXED] Fixed an issue with "Name"/"Nomes" fields when the System’s primary language is set to Italian
  • [NEW] Exporting preferred values for a group using distribution lists (via the "Primary" label) works now for vCards, too.
  • [NEW] vCard Export Module only: Added support for exporting vCard pictures.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.5.1 (Oct 5, 2009)

  • Columns are no longer exported twice when exporting to a TSV data file.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.5 (Sep 26, 2009)

  • Added support for Address Book's Distribution Lists feature. With the new "Primary" label you can now export the preferred email address, phone number or address field on a per-group basis. Works only if you add exactly one group to the "Address Book Items" list.
  • CSV export format: You can now specify the field separator.
  • CSV and TSV export format: You can now force every field to be enclosed in quotes.
  • CSV and TSV export format: You can now fill empty fields with a string of your choice.
  • The build-in Automator action is now compatible with Snow Leopard.
  • Groups and contacts to export can now be added with the new People Picker panel or directly from Address Book via Drag ’n Drop.
  • Automator Action: Added support for exporting Creation Date, Modification Date, Phonetic First and Phonetic Last.

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.4.3 (Mar 31, 2008)

  • Added support for exporting Creation Date, Modification Date, Phonetic First and Phonetic Last

New in Exporter for Contacts 1.4.2 (Nov 20, 2007)

  • Fixed an issue where the export process could get stuck when exporting contacts as vCards.