Won't Thunderbird on Windows automatically import from Outlook or Outlook Express? And from what I hear Outlook Express will import a vcf file with multiple people in it. Sounds like that would be a better way than the one you described.
It definitely, though, needs better vcard import facilities. Cheers, Tanner On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:30:10 -0800 (PST), Turnpike Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well... first off, why Thunderbird doesn't have vcard support yet is beyond > me, > but from the looks of it, that is being worked on. :) > > Getting Contacts from Evolution to Thunderbird > ---------------------------------------------- > > 1. WARNING - I had to use Microsoft products to make this work. There are > apparently python based scripts you can find on the Internet with Google, but > I > don't know how to scan one to know if I can trust it, so I just did it this > way.) > > 2. Save *individually* each Contact you have as a vcard in a specified > directory such as /home/username/vcards/ > 3. Snag that entire folder, send to a Microsoft machine running Outlook > (Outlook Express may also work). > 4. Import (drag and drop) (save and close) every single vcard from all your > Contacts in that directory. > 5. Export from Outlook to .CSV comma delimited DOS > 6. Open the CSV file (I used Excel) and remove all empty columns (trust me, > this makes matching fields in the Thunderbird import easier!) > 7. Goto your Address Book in Thunderbird and import from CSV, matching the > fields for the import routine, making sure you pay attention to which column > represents which side of the date import routine! > 8. Whatever the name of your .csv file will be the name of a new Address Book > in Thunderbird, so drag and drop all those into the main Address Book *if you > want* and delete the one it created; I did. > 9. If you are confused by the name that shows, make sure to change the name > to > show First Last and not Display Name as Display Name is not setup right on the > imported address book entries, at least it wasn't for me. > > OK folks... that process was REALLY REALLY annoying, but until Thunderbird > supports vcards, others may need these notes. Or of course, if you don't have > access to the Microsoft products I used, find a way to test and trust those > python scripts out on the Internet. > > Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Thunderbirding, > David McDowell > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
