Peter Bart wrote:
I edited my vcf file manually with Kate on my kubuntu system, replaced the two umlauted characters with plain characters, and the file successfully imported. The success is muted, however, by the fact that most of the fields are mixed up, and some weren't imported at all. For example, only the phone and name were put in the "Home" fields, and the state was put before the city in the addresses.On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:13 -0600, Mark Haury wrote: I completely screwed up my explanation on this one. What I meant was that I want to be able to specify the working directory and keep all my data in an easily found and copied directory on one of the SDHC cards, where it's completely safe from reflashes and easily copied and transported to other machines/drives. For me, moving my data around *is* what I need to do. I use the data in different ways, with different apps, most of which don't understand vcf files but all of which do understand csv files. Unfortunately, I dropped the Visor recently, and the screen is dying. The Psion wasn't well supported even when it was new, and while it's a great gadget, it only has a 10MHz processor, and is completely incapable of any kind of networking. Between the two, the Visor is more portable and versatile, but as I said, it's dying. Anyway, yours is not a very helpful comment. Both devices are more than 10 years old, and while highly capable as address books and for playing games, are pretty much obsolete for any other purpose. When I bought the Nokia, I (quite reasonably) assumed that it would have a decent PIM. Much less powerful and much more inexpensive units have very capable PIMs (come on, even my 10-plus-year-old Visor and Psion have better PIMs!). There's really no excuse for Nokia not porting Kontacts or Evolution or some other full-featured Linux PIM. I probably would have got an eee PC instead if I had known: the form factor of the Nokia isn't been nearly as much of an advantage without that particular functionality. I don't use Evolution, Schedule world, or Google. I use Access and up until now my Visor. I've been trying for a long time to migrate my Access databases to OOo Base, but it can't import tables or csv files any more than gpe can, and when connecting to the original Access database can't deal with any of the other database objects at all. Its report formatting is also incredibly limited at this point. (In my opinion, Base is still alpha level software, utterly unlike the rest of the suite.) If anybody can point me to a different cross-platform (mainly Windows and Linux, but Mac would be a plus) database that has most of the power and ease of Access (and the most important features are reliable import/export of csv and the ability to create report layouts from scratch), I would be *extremely* appreciative. I've tried to learn about SQL and frontends for it, but everything I can find basically assumes one already knows all about it and seem to be based on scripting, and I need to work from a GUI, including creating databases from scratch. The reason I need cross-platform and GUI is so I can share it with others in my organization who are not all that computer-literate and have different OS's than me. Mark |
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