Importing Contacts from Thunderbird

Dennis Wollersheim d.wollersheim at latrobe.edu.au
Sun Dec 21 05:30:59 CET 2008


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Hey Will

Can you tell me what you found out about the format? It also does not
import contacts from jpilot.

Cheers
Dennis

Will Siddall wrote:
> Hey,
> I know there's a wiki item for this, but I just have to send it to
> everyone.  I want to edit the wiki, but I don't know if anyone has run
> into this problem yet.
> 
> The wiki shows to install a VCF plugin for thunderbird then just
> import the VCF into your contacts app.  I had a lot of problems with
> this and actually found that the format of the VCF file doesn't match
> what 'addressbook' is looking for.
> 
> Instead, here are the steps I found to work and if anyone can confirm
> this, I will add it to the wiki.
> 
> 1: Export your addressbook/contacts to VCF file(s)
> 2: From your terminal, run:
>         sed -r -e 's/;TYPE=([^,]+),([^:]+):/;\1;\2:/g' old.vcf > new.vcf
> 3: From your OpenMoko, run:
>         addressbook new.vcf
> 
> Will
> 
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