Re: [Evolution] Mass import of contacts

[Brian Elliott Finley <brian thefinleys com>]

This kinda works.

My problem is that I'm not exporting them from Evolution, to then import
them into another instance of Evolution.  Instead, I've got the data in
a raw format, and I'm trying to use my perl-foo to put the data into a
"mass export style" .vcf card.

I've got the data so that it looks right to the naked eye, but I know I
must be missing some kind of delimeter, as evolution only takes in the
first couple of records (successfully), then silently declines the rest
of the data.

If I remove those first couple of records from the file, then it doesn't
accept any more.

I believe what I need at this point is a nice tidy detailed description
of what Evolution is expecting (format and delimiter wise) from a .vcf
file.  I'm going through the vcard-21 spec, but I'm not convinced that
evolution's expectations are the same as the vcard-21 spec.

Can anyone point me at an evolution .vcf card import spec document?

Cheers, -Brian


Thus spake Aaron Weber (aweber novell com):
> Go to the contacts folder, hit Ctrl-A, then save as a vcard-- it makes
> one giant vcard. :)
>
> Last time I tried this, I found that, for some reason, it's easier to
> import when you mail it to yourself as an attachment than when you just
> save it and import it, but that may be a bug that was fixed quite some
> time ago.
>
> Cheers,
>
> a.
>
>
> Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:10 -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
> > I have ~1000 contacts, and can put their data into any format needed,
> > and want to import them all at once.
> >
> > I've tried this using .vcf files, but I only seem to be able to import
> > one at a time.
> >
> > Can I do a mass import with Evolution?  How?

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