Re: [Evolution] Problem importing contacts

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 07:46 -0700, jd wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>
>
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 17:29 -0700, jd wrote:
> > So, what could be wrong that would make Evo not see the name
> > in the contacts list?
>
>       Hi,
> go to Contacts in evolution and check the respective contact, how that
> was imported. That should help identify the issue. By the way, if your
> Thunderbird supports it, export your contacts to a vCard, rather than
> ldif, and import them.
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
>
> The name I want is not even in the Evo contacts. It IS in the ldif file
> that I imported.

So there was something strange with the ldif file that Evo didn't
understand and so didn't import the contacts properly.  Try importing
the contact using vCard.

P.