[TriLUG] Contacts - Evolution to Thunderbird

[Dean Price]

You can try this.
http://www.linux.org.tw/~shchang/vcf2ldif/vcf2ldif.tgz

Dean Price


Turnpike Man wrote:

>Well... first off, why Thunderbird doesn't have vcard support yet is beyond me,
>but from the looks of it, that is being worked on.  :)
>
>Getting Contacts from Evolution to Thunderbird
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>
>1.  WARNING - I had to use Microsoft products to make this work.  There are
>apparently python based scripts you can find on the Internet with Google, but I
>don't know how to scan one to know if I can trust it, so I just did it this
>way.)
>
>2.  Save *individually* each Contact you have as a vcard in a specified
>directory such as /home/username/vcards/
>3.  Snag that entire folder, send to a Microsoft machine running Outlook
>(Outlook Express may also work).
>4.  Import (drag and drop) (save and close) every single vcard from all your
>Contacts in that directory.
>5.  Export from Outlook to .CSV comma delimited DOS
>6.  Open the CSV file (I used Excel) and remove all empty columns (trust me,
>this makes matching fields in the Thunderbird import easier!)
>7.  Goto your Address Book in Thunderbird and import from CSV, matching the
>fields for the import routine, making sure you pay attention to which column
>represents which side of the date import routine!
>8.  Whatever the name of your .csv file will be the name of a new Address Book
>in Thunderbird, so drag and drop all those into the main Address Book *if you
>want* and delete the one it created; I did.
>9.  If you are confused by the name that shows, make sure to change the name to
>show First Last and not Display Name as Display Name is not setup right on the
>imported address book entries, at least it wasn't for me.
>
>OK folks... that process was REALLY REALLY annoying, but until Thunderbird
>supports vcards, others may need these notes.  Or of course, if you don't have
>access to the Microsoft products I used, find a way to test and trust those
>python scripts out on the Internet.
>
>Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Thunderbirding,
>David McDowell
>
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