I can’t do Unix. > On 2 Dec 2014, at 21:51, BobH. <[email protected]> wrote: > > My thought relates to OsX being a variant of Linux, which itself was derived > from unix, so you should have the basic unix tools for dicing and slicing - > cut, sort, uniq, can't remember them all now; but remember we had to write > scripts with these to chop and change files like this. > I now do it with PHP, but would still need file dimensions; but that is the > one way it would work well and efficiently, if you knew the commands and > parameters. PHP is particularly good for this once you isolate the > separator. > > Can't say more without having a file to chew, and you don't, or shouldn't > want to part with that. > > Sorry to hear you had that much trouble, worse than you last said by the > sound of it. > > RobH. > > Ps: I'm missing the obvious, CSV means comma-separated Variables. > > So, find a spreadsheet, they can all import that format, then find the > offending column, mark it from top to bottom, then hit delete to empty the > fields; then do save-as, call it something else or add a 2 or 3 somewhere > to save overwriting the original, then you should be able to import that > clean and fill in the real dates after, all be it individually. Empty fields > have nothing between commas at that point. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kawal Gucukoglu" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 9:38 PM > Subject: A little help with Calendar please. > > > Hello. > > I’d like a little advice about my calendar please. > > Recently, my contacts, notes and E-mails got into the wrong hands as it > were, although I didn’t realise my e-mails were being monitored for a couple > of months until a few weeks ago. Thus I was able to save some of my > contacts as I had them copied to a portable SSD drive. All the contacts > that I had left were in a CSV file and when I imported them back to my > devices once I got Internet back again, all my contacts had some numbers at > the end from my CSV file so that all the contacts have a date of birth for > approximately of 15 years ago so that all my contacts are of the age of 15 > years of age. > > So I need to change all these numbers to either the proper date of birth or > get rid of the numbers altogether. > > Is there a way of manipulating all the date of birth fields in one go and > thus clearing the calendar of all the dates of births’ please so that I can > choose to put dates of birth’s for some of my contacts please? I am also > choosing to use two step verification for my Appple ID so that I never am > compromised again by anyone. It was most upsetting waking up one morning to > find that everything had disappeared from my I phone. > > Thanks. > > Kawal. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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