Re: Users digest, Vol 1 #1170 - Importing contacts from outlook

I can help with this, as I've successfully transferred all of my Outlook
contacts into Evolution.

First, a little background on my set-up.  Yours may differ.  I have two
hard drives, one with Windows and one with Linux.  I've got lilo set up
to dual boot, so I can go from one system to the other.  I also have
mounted the windows drive onto the Linux filesystem so I can read and
copy files from the Windows system onto my Linux system.

If you have something similar you can follow my directions pretty much
verbatim; otherwise, you can easily modify them to fit your
circumstances. By the way, I'm using Debian, but I've also used this
technique successfully with RedHat.

1. First, you need to export your contacts in Outlook.  You should find
the option to export under the 'File' menu.  Save the exported file as
DOS 'comma separated values' with a .csv extension.  Save it as
'contacts.csv' in your 'My Documents' folder or where ever you'd like
that you'll remember.

2. Boot into Linux.

3. Mount your Windows drive/partition and cd to /My Documents.  Copy
(cp) the 'contacts.csv' file to your home directory in linux.

4. Now, back in your linux home, use the command 'csv2vcard' as follows:

[commandline]$ csv2vard contacts.csv contacts.vcf

This will create the vcard file in your home directory. Double-check
that it's really there, if you're paranoid like me.

5. Now open Evolution. Open the import wizard found under 'File.' You
want to import a single file, with the vcf extension.  Find your file,
import it, and you're in business!

> Message: 2
> Subject: Re: [Users] Importing contacts into Evolution
> From: guenther <[email protected]>
> To: Andrew Gray <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:57:07 +0200
> 
> No reply yet, thus some hints:
> 
> > I want to import contacts from MS Outlook - I read how to do this on the old 
> > Ximian support site, something about a program to convert from the MS 
> > format, but I can't find it again.
> > 
> > Anyone got a link to the instuctions?
> 
> Unfortunately not.
> 
> But you might want to try googling for it. Evolution can import vCard
> (*.vcf) and LDIF format files, so any tool, script or workaround [1]
> that exports into these formats should do. :)
> 
> Outlook does not have any export functionality?
> 
> ...guenther


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