You now ought to be able to go back to the On My Mac view and delete all of the local addresses. If you go back to the Mac Address Book and change the Group view to All Contacts, you now ought to see duplicate entries for everyone: the copy on your Mac along with the copy now in Zimbra. This will import all of the contacts saved in your Mac Address Book into Zimbra. Under the import section, browse for the vCard file you just saved and choose to import that into your Contacts. Log in to the Zimbra web interface and select the Preferences tab and the Import / Export sidebar option. Change the view to All on My Mac.Ĭlick an entry in the list of names and then Select All from the Edit menu.įrom the File menu select Export. If you want to move your local contacts from On My Mac to Zimbra, these are the basic steps you want to follow: This way new contacts/addresses created from Address Book or Mail will automatically be entered into Zimbra. It would be a good idea to go back to the General preferences tab and change the Default Account from On My Mac to your Zimbra account. Go ahead and change the Description to something a bit more reasonable to show up in a list. Enter your Zimbra login (email address) and password. Click the Add Account (+) button in the bottom left corner.īe sure that Account type is set as CardDAV. By default you will have an entry for On My Mac, which is all of the contacts stored locally on your computer. In the Address Book application, open the Preferences and select the Accounts tab. If you are running an earlier version of Mac OS you will not be able to use these directions, as this setup utilizes CardDAV which is only a feature in more recent versions of iCal. The screenshots here are for Mac OS 10.7 (Lion), but the basic settings here will apply to pretty much any version of Mac OS from 10.6 on up.

This document will walk you through how to setup Address Book in Mac OS with your Zimbra contacts on Daedalus.

Mac address book application