Re: bitpim vcard import fails on Mac OS/X

That did the trick.  Thanks alot.

On Jan 14, 2008 10:34 PM, Adit Panchal <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can import the vcf files into the Mac OS X Address Book. Once it
> is in there, you can export them all as a single vCard which BitPim
> can read in. Just make sure you highlight all the contacts you want to
> export at once and then export from the File menu.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Adit
>
> On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:58 AM, The Doctor wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My son's Samsung M500 has no working cable connection and I was
> > lending him my old but working VGA1000 to use as backup until
> > Samsung repairs or replaces his M500.  Before he ships it off, I had
> > him use his Bluetooth to save his contacts as .vcf files on his
> > macBook Pro.  I thought it would be easy to have the Mac OS/X 10.4
> > system run Bitpim to import the vcf aka vcard files into its phone
> > book for download via a USB cable to my old VGA1000.  I'm trying it
> > here on my Mac and finding problems loading the vcf files into
> > bitpim via File->Import->vCards....
> >
> > The first problem is that I apparently need to import them one at a
> > time.  Selecting all the .vcf files in a directory by choosing the
> > first and then scrolling down to shift and choose the last only
> > seems to select the last one.  If I could overcome this problem, the
> > rest of the issues below would become unimportant.
> >
> > The second problem is that not all the vcf files seem to be able to
> > be merged into the phonebook.  Sometimes it just does not do it and
> > other times bitpim just crashes.
> >
> > Has anyone else had these problems and do you know of any workarounds?
> >
> > I was thinking I might try to find some way of converting the vcf
> > files into a single csv file, but I'm not finding any documentation
> > about what the proper format for a input contact csv file might be
> > and I cannot think of a utility that would perform such a
> > conversion.  I don't have Outlook or Excel on my iMac
>
>
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