macbook-contacts-iphone Help...

[purplenut]

Hi ive just been setting me iphone up on my macbook and somehow cleared all my contacts,i can not do a back up so stuck,then i remembered i saved them on my external hard drive so i have them now on my macbook desktop.
And that is where it ends,i can not add them or import them.
Any ideas please VERY welcome.

[davidmog99]

I have heard of a company that makes a product that may help. They are called Bic, and make a product called a biro.
You will need to source another compatible product, although its not environmentally friendly, and is called paper.
If you use the biro to write the required information on to the paper, then you could transfer this onto your required device. You could even re use it again if any other electronics prove to be faulty or unreliable.
I Know for a fact that my little welsh nan has used paper and a bic biro to record important information for nearly eighty years, with almost no compatibility problems even when she changed manufacturers of diaries or excercise books.
Some of the youths in the town where i live seem to even be abandoning facebook and twitter and are using more traditional methods of abusing each other by using permanent marker to communicate, their medium not being paper but walls and street furniture, but i am not sure how relevant that is. But i do now know donna sucks **** and her mum ****** ***** quite a lot.
Sorry to have been f*ck all help.

[ianjoyner]

Try importing the file int the address book app on your MacBook. Once they're in the address book on your Mac you should be able to sync them to your iPhone with iTunes.

[bodgit]

If you,ve got online billing or paper billing then all numbers dialled or texed will be on there. You may recognise some or just ring them all see who answers.

[purplenut]

Originally Posted by bodgit

If you,ve got online billing or paper billing then all numbers dialled or texed will be on there. You may recognise some or just ring them all see who answers.

Hi ive got all of then with names just need to figure out how to paste them into itunes or macbook..

[purplenut]

Originally Posted by ianjoyner

Try importing the file int the address book app on your MacBook. Once they're in the address book on your Mac you should be able to sync them to your iPhone with iTunes.

Yes tried this but when i try to highlight it i wont

[terry.sc]

What type of file are your contacts in? Address book should import any csv or tab delimited file as well as vcards.

[purplenut]

Originally Posted by terry.sc

What type of file are your contacts in? Address book should import any csv or tab delimited file as well as vcards.

Basically i saved all i could from my broken lap top to my external drive and i still have it there and now i have put the file on my mac dest top.

If you let me know how to find out what kind of folder it is i will do so and let you know
Thanks for this

[purplenut]

Originally Posted by davidmog99

I have heard of a company that makes a product that may help. They are called Bic, and make a product called a biro.
You will need to source another compatible product, although its not environmentally friendly, and is called paper.
If you use the biro to write the required information on to the paper, then you could transfer this onto your required device. You could even re use it again if any other electronics prove to be faulty or unreliable.
I Know for a fact that my little welsh nan has used paper and a bic biro to record important information for nearly eighty years, with almost no compatibility problems even when she changed manufacturers of diaries or excercise books.
Some of the youths in the town where i live seem to even be abandoning facebook and twitter and are using more traditional methods of abusing each other by using permanent marker to communicate, their medium not being paper but walls and street furniture, but i am not sure how relevant that is. But i do now know donna sucks **** and her mum ****** ***** quite a lot.
Sorry to have been f*ck all help.

hay thanks for that i had no idea