[Om2008.9] How to export Vcf Contacts from FR?

Vasco Névoa vasco.nevoa at sapo.pt
Sun Oct 12 00:57:16 CEST 2008


Paul wrote:
> Timo Jyrinki wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know how to not only make a backup, but to export back to
>> VCF format from Qtopia/Om2008.8? I now added a section for it at
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts - the 2007.2 section
>> has a script that handles it.
>>
>> I wouldn't want to actively change the addressbook if I cannot export
>> from it to some standard format if I eg. change to FSO (or even back
>> to 2007.2 / SHR!).
>>   
>>     
>
> You mean creating VCF's from the sqlite-data in a backup?
> Would be interesting to play with. I could envision a slq-script that 
> dumps the data into a file and then a bash or python script that puts 
> things in the proper format. That's not too difficult, if sqlite plays nice.
>
> Paul
>
>   
I had thought about that too, but I can't find an SQLite client in OM 
repos to create the necessary script.
How can we talk to SQLite on OM without going the full C/C++ and 
respective libs way? Python maybe?...




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