GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 357700
contacts export needs to support more file extensions
Last modified: 2008-10-15 14:47:20 UTC
currently, evolution can only export to vcard. additional formats should be supported. example formats are: ldif tab txt csv more formats mean more flexibility for users. a user should be able to switch over to major email clients / services such as yahoo, gmail, thunderbird.
one can switch over. don't they support importing vcard?
(In reply to comment #1) > don't they support importing vcard? > no
well, evo supports *importing* all the formats that you mention. what import formats are supported by the client that you want to migrate to? you can also try to use "evolution-addressbook-export" on the shell, that one supports csv output, run "evolution-addressbook-export --help" to find out more. simply running evolution-addressbook-export does not work, you have to enter/go to the directory first where it is located. You can find it by using the command "locate evolution-addressbook-export", if you have "locate" installed on your computer.
(In reply to comment #3) > well, evo supports *importing* all the formats that you mention. what import > formats are supported by the client that you want to migrate to? > ldif [possibly the primary one is this one], ldi, csv [see below], txt, tab that's why I listed those. I don't know of other formats (if you know any, please include to this bug report -> more formats mean better flexibility) > you can also try to use "evolution-addressbook-export" on the shell, that one > supports csv output, run "evolution-addressbook-export --help" to find out > more. I tried using it to export to csv previous to reporting this bug, but either its export code is a little buggy or thunderbird's is. I couldn't (I spent a lot of time trying though). the fields didn't match properly, and thunderbird's "match field" dialogue was too buggy to deal with. but, well, those are off topic. good thing I had the same address book entries at my yahoo account. I used that one to migrate to thunderbird. PS. I would like that the GUI should be able to do the export for the exporting formats. e-a-e is not very intuitive for the average joe (me) who likes the GUI :)
LDIF should clearly be a priority, as, unlike CSV it has unique field denominators, and it is imported by e.g. Thunderbird, without any hassles. At present, I have to rely on kaddressbook if I want to sync my evo contacts with thunderbird, as it exports LDIF just fine.
This bug is a duplicate of Bug 258920. I don't know how to mark it as such.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258920 ***