Re: [Evolution-hackers] importers?

[Aaron Weber <aaron ximian com>]

Also, I'm having trouble getting my Evolution 1.4 data into my Evolution 1.5:

I had not imported the addressbook previously, so I ran Import from the file menu. 

If I click "Import data from older applications," Evolution 1.4 starts up, crashes, starts up, crashes, and starts up again, then the import proceeds to not find anything.

If I click "Import a single file" it can't import my old Evolution addressbook database.

SO, I ran Evolution 1.4 and saved my addressbook as a VCF list of addresses. Evolution 1.5 wanted to import it as a calendar, then failed to do so.

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On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 10:53 -0500, Aaron Weber wrote:
>     Here's what I know bothers the people who I spoke to at LinuxWorld, among bugs; all of these I think are already in bugzilla:
>     
>     Individual file imports of mbox files copied from Eudora fail all too often, although I don't know why; I think possibly because of Windows vs. Linux newlines?
>     
>     We should have a recursive import of a directory, so that you can import from, say, Eudora or KMail or a tree of MBox files without doing it one by one. We support single file imports, doing a treeful should be easy.
>     
>     Addressbook imports, especially from csv files, are basically useless. Csv2vcard is not reliable, and isn't in the GUI; it needs to be done right and done in a gui-accessible way.
>     
>     I can't imagine that any of this is easy, especially parts involving Outlook and transferring files across Windows/Linux partitions. But I don't know the technical details, just the stuff people complain about. :)
>     
>     a.
>     
>     On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 14:50 +0800, Not Zed wrote: 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I saw JP mention something about importers being a bitch, whats the
> > status here?  irc keeps booting me and everyone's asleep anyway.
> >
> > Is this another forgotten feature or something?  Should we re-do them as
> > modules rather than having so much bonobo glue in the middle, or what?
> >
> >  Michael
> >
> >
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