But, luckily for humanity, there’s this dinky little importer tool that made it happen. It’s called O2M or Outlook2Mac, and it did a mighty fine job. Even got his distribution lists. Well worth the $10 they are asking for it.

To recap: I tried to import my fathers Outlook 2003 contacts in to Apple’s Address Book.app. After trying everything I could think of, and a few things that the folks on the web figured might work, I was left with being able to do it via Mozilla’s Thunderbird, albiet very sloppilly.

But, as I said, Luckilly for humanity, the guys at littlemachines.com figured it out for us. You see, that’s the difference between folks who make software for Windows and those who make it for the Mac. Even if it’s coded for Windows, you can safely expect that the program will do its job.

Windows Developers make terrible software. Mac developers don’t. Anyways, Thanks for making the right tool for the job. I was able to install the windows app on my dad’s virtualized xp desktop, make a single vCard (.vcf) file that imported in to Mac’s Address Book without any fuss. 340 some-odd contacts, a dozen distribution lists… all in order like I knew what the hell I was doing.