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Copy & Paste Contact pictures

I have several clients on my Contacts. Usually, I use their company logo as the contact picture. It helps me to visually identify emails and iMessages. The first contact of a given company, I will google the company's logo, but for all the others I just use the same image for consistency.

Before Sierra, on Contacts, I was able to go to a contact, and "copy" its picture and then "paste" that picture on the new contact. With Sierra, I've tried this in several different ways, but I always end up pasting the full original contact on my directory, not just his picture.

Do you know how to copy & paste pictures between contacts.

The image files for the contacts pictures are stored in the Images folder inside your Contacts account folder.

The storage location is in your user Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder. You can get there by pasting this path into Go To Folder in the Finder (Go menu).

~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook.

The Images folder you see there is for Contacts that are stored locally on your Mac (On My Mac account).

The online contacts (like iCloud) have a subfolder in Sources. You have to open each to figure out which account it belongs to (there will likely only be one for your iCloud contacts, but if you use another account like Google, there will be multiple folders). There will be an Images folder in each. Each of the images will be named with a unique ID, so you'll just have to look at the icon preview or quicklook it to find the one for each company.

Offhand, I can't see a way to do that.

I would suggest you now save the logos in a folder somewhere so you can add them to new contacts.

Somewhat silly, but you could store them in Photos as you have direct access to Photos Albums in the picture edit window. You can right-click on a photo in Photos and hide it so that it doesn't show up in Moments, Collections, Years, and Memories.

The image files for the contacts pictures are stored in the Images folder inside your Contacts account folder.

The storage location is in your user Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder. You can get there by pasting this path into Go To Folder in the Finder (Go menu).

~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook.

The Images folder you see there is for Contacts that are stored locally on your Mac (On My Mac account).

The online contacts (like iCloud) have a subfolder in Sources. You have to open each to figure out which account it belongs to (there will likely only be one for your iCloud contacts, but if you use another account like Google, there will be multiple folders). There will be an Images folder in each. Each of the images will be named with a unique ID, so you'll just have to look at the icon preview or quicklook it to find the one for each company.

Thank you! This fixed my issue!

Meanwhile, I saw that on my iPhone I can copy & paste the contacts pictures. That also helps.

Hi

NOT solved as above. Seems to be forcing users to put pictures into Photos and them pick from there. I tried putting photo into both the ~Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Images and the ~Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/random alphanumerics.../Images folders, couldn't find image in Defaults in Contacts, only other options beyond defaults are Camera and Photos. Note, each photo in the second folder I mentioned has a file w/ the same name but w/o the .jpeg, not sure purpose of this.

So seems only option is to put in Photos, which worked, although there is no access to the 'Last Import'. Deleted from Photos, picture is still in contact record in Contacts. So via Photos works, but really don't appreciate the removal of features I used before and 30 minutes of my life that's gone forever.

Rich

I'm not sure what you are doing, but I can drag and drop a picture on the picture well, or I can copy/paste after clicking on the + button which appears when you "edit" the contact picture.

I have been struggling with the exact same issue. Before it was só handy and useful to just copy and paste a contact's company logo/photo. Now we have to dig deep into System & Library subfolders and search visually through thousands of image files, most of which have blank thumbnails. What a nightmare. Why was this simple, but extremely useful functionality taken away from us? And then só many more small features have been taken away from other apps like Mail, Calendar, etc. What's going on with Apple? Steve Jobs, please, if you see us from above, try do reason your mates in some way. Thanks

最後更新：2017-09-04 22:19:09

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