-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Will
Can you tell me what you found out about the format? It also does not import contacts from jpilot. Cheers Dennis Will Siddall wrote: > Hey, > I know there's a wiki item for this, but I just have to send it to > everyone. I want to edit the wiki, but I don't know if anyone has run > into this problem yet. > > The wiki shows to install a VCF plugin for thunderbird then just > import the VCF into your contacts app. I had a lot of problems with > this and actually found that the format of the VCF file doesn't match > what 'addressbook' is looking for. > > Instead, here are the steps I found to work and if anyone can confirm > this, I will add it to the wiki. > > 1: Export your addressbook/contacts to VCF file(s) > 2: From your terminal, run: > sed -r -e 's/;TYPE=([^,]+),([^:]+):/;\1;\2:/g' old.vcf > new.vcf > 3: From your OpenMoko, run: > addressbook new.vcf > > Will > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > - -- - ------------------------------------------- Dennis Wollersheim Lecturer, Health Information Management La Trobe University Bundoora Victoria 3086 Room HS1:110 (03) 9479 1763 (bh) 0414 529 454 (mobile) http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/dewoller - ------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklNxoIACgkQ41ROt9TlFkrZSQCgrdvN66a0B05VoUKwbQt9mDov pxAAnjw/PxxdncEi0wy2+y58aLFl3iz1 =6ini -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community