[TriLUG] Contacts - Evolution to Thunderbird

[Tanner Lovelace]

Won't Thunderbird on Windows automatically import from Outlook or
Outlook Express?
And from what I hear Outlook Express will import a vcf file with
multiple people in it.
Sounds like that would be a better way than the one you described.

It definitely, though, needs better vcard import facilities.

Cheers,
Tanner


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:30:10 -0800 (PST), Turnpike Man
<turnpike420 at yahoo.com> 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
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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