Exporting and Importing from Apple Address Book to FirstClass Contacts

1. Launch Apple Address Book and go to its Preferences. Select the vCard section. Change the vCard Format to 2.1. Close the Preferences.
   

2. Select a mailing list you wish to export, and/or select all of your entries, and go to the File menu and select Export vCard.
   

3. Save the file as vCards to somewhere you'll remember, like Desktop.
   

4. Open FirstClass, and open your Contacts. Go to the File menu and select Import Contacts....
   

5. Select the vCards file you exported from Address Book. It will populate your FirstClass contacts with the data from the Address Book vCard.

For mailing lists in Address Book, it's a different procedure. Before you transfer a list from Address Book to FirstClass, make sure that the members of your mailing list have already been imported into FirstClass using the steps above.

1. In Address Book, select the list you wish to transfer, then select all the members of that list and copy them to the clipboard using apple-c.
   

2. On your FirstClass desktop, make a new document and paste the list members into it. Leave this document open.

3. Open your FirstClass Contacts, and click the small black arrow next to the "New" button to open a dropdown menu. From that menu, select New Mail List. Give it a name.
   

4. In the open document where you pasted all the names, select all of them and drag them into the "Members" field of the Personal Mail List box. When you see a black line in the upper part of the Members field, you can let go. Hit OK to save the list.