What actually is vCard?
vCard more commonly known as visiting card in layman language. It is an industry standard followed for storing contacts in digital file format with.vcf extension. All contemporary contact management apps whether be of handheld devices or of mainframes generally understands .vcf files. Even electronic devices with embedded software have built in support of vcf files for managing contacts information. This flexibility is needed in order to maintain cross platform support and for synchronizing various applications with each other to effectively manage contact information. Due to the emergence of cloud computing and virtualization environments it becomes not only necessary but an inherent need for standard to manage contacts along the web in clouds. So, .vcf has always its thumbs up.
How to convert Outlook contacts to vCard?
PCVITA surveys huge customer base around the globe and finds most of the people are using Microsoft Inc. Outlook mail client to store their mail contacts which are in proprietary file format .PST which is not supportive in many of the contact management application. Though Outlook offers the conversion of contacts from its proprietary .PST file format to vCard vcf format but in a single mode functionality means you can convert only one contact at a time either from vcf file to Outlook PST file or from PST file to vCard vcf file. This sounds quite logical but it is ridiculous when you need to move bulk of you contacts from or to Outlook environment and that too by not wasting your time. Now, here you find yourself getting stuck into how to convert Outlook contacts to vCard?
PCVITA: The triumph
Understanding emerging data sharing needs and technology shifts towards cloud computing. PCVITA comes with a great utility vCard Magic:
vCard converter software which works in coarse integration with your Outlook mail client to migrate multiple contacts in batch from Outlook PST files to standardized vCard vcf file formats and vice-versa. Large PST file size problems can also be handled by first splitting PST files to multiple smaller sized PST files with any
PST Splitter software which prevents PST file sizes to grow above acceptable limits but as I say previously it is not always possible to keep an eye on your PST file sizes. So, it is a good practice to regularly take back-up of your Outlook mail contacts to generalized vCard file formats or to import previous archives to Outlook for communication and vCard magic actually does the same. Taking backup of your valuable contacts is also a recommended activity from security point of view to prevent illegal access to your contacts by intruders.
Conclusion
Contacts migration needs are growing and cant ceases to exist. Industry needs a sure shot solution which has to be flexible, simple, secure and do mass work without any hassles. The solution should not only be backward compatible but also has space to stand with future technological innovations. It has to be one dimension ahead of technology shifts, supportive to maximum contemporary needs and should have inherent flexibility. PCVITA works with same vision. Nevertheless, to getting stuck in the middle of how do I how to convert Outlook contacts to vCard?
