Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-27 Thread John Delacour
At 5:21 pm -0700 21/9/04, wren argetlahm wrote: I've recently started messing around with Thunderbird. I like it a bunch but I'm wondering if there's any good way to port over my Address Book, with perl or otherwise. The Applescript script below creates a UTF-8 encoded .vcf file on your desktop

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-27 Thread John Delacour
At 10:19 pm +0100 27/9/04, John Delacour wrote: The Applescript script below creates a UTF-8 encoded .vcf file on your desktop containing all your contacts: Actually that needs to be modified. The script below will give you either a file with no blank lines or a file with a blank line only

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-24 Thread Joel Rees
On 2004.9.24, at 11:55 AM, wren argetlahm wrote: --- Chris Devers wrote: --- Joel Rees wrote: I don't know about .vcf, but .csv is fairly easy to just look at with a text editor (formatting off, of course). Yeah, they're both just text and (pretty) easily readable. The problem comes in that I

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, wren argetlahm wrote: Incidentally, the .vcf file generated by AB looks akin to your example but with a space between every charecter and two newlines instead of one. Is that normal, or might that be part of the reason that Firebird is having difficulty reading it? It

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-24 Thread Joel Rees
On 2004.9.24, at 11:34 AM, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Joel Rees wrote: I don't know about .vcf, but .csv is fairly easy to just look at with a text editor (formatting off, of course). VCF is (basically) an ascii format. You can encode binary data (e.g. photos) in it, but it's base64

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-23 Thread Joel Rees
I'd like to take more time for this, but waiting doesn't produce more time this week. So I'll just toss out an idea -- You might be interested in this page, entitled Import Address Book records into to Thunderbird : http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040905025741769 When I googled

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Joel Rees wrote: I don't know about .vcf, but .csv is fairly easy to just look at with a text editor (formatting off, of course). VCF is (basically) an ascii format. You can encode binary data (e.g. photos) in it, but it's base64 encoded (just like email) so you can poke

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-23 Thread wren argetlahm
--- Chris Devers wrote: --- Joel Rees wrote: I don't know about .vcf, but .csv is fairly easy to just look at with a text editor (formatting off, of course). Yeah, they're both just text and (pretty) easily readable. The problem comes in that I don't want to stop using AddressBook and so

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-22 Thread wren argetlahm
--- Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be interested in this page, entitled Import Address Book records into to Thunderbird : http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040905025741769 When I googled for thunderbird and address, trying to learn what thunderbird

Thunderbird

2004-09-21 Thread wren argetlahm
I've recently started messing around with Thunderbird. I like it a bunch but I'm wondering if there's any good way to port over my Address Book, with perl or otherwise. I've tried exporting from AB (as .vcf, the only option) then importing in Thunderbird (.vcf isn't one of the formats listed

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-21 Thread Ken Williams
You might be interested in this page, entitled Import Address Book records into to Thunderbird : http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040905025741769 When I googled for thunderbird and address, trying to learn what thunderbird was, this was the first link that came up. -Ken On Sep

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-21 Thread Joseph Alotta
Import Address Book records into to Thunderbird : http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040905025741769 When I googled for thunderbird and address, trying to learn what thunderbird was, this was the first link that came up. -Ken On Sep 21, 2004, at 7:21 PM, wren argetlahm wrote: I've

Re: Thunderbird

2004-09-21 Thread David Wheeler
On Sep 21, 2004, at 9:28 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote: I am using Now Contact and Now Up-To-Date and it is getting tired. Does anyone have a recommendation for something Mac-ish that would work better? Even something that costs a few hundred. iCal? David