On 07/09/2011 02:24 AM, Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 07/05/2011 11:49 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Stan Goodman said the following on 07/05/2011 04:37 PM:
Your procedure is not clear. You started with what kind of file? Which you imported into (maybe) Outlook, then it gets blurry. Can you detail it? No, this was very NOT recent
Before I made this attempt with Vcard, I tried with an .ldif file.
Ah, that seems familiar. I think that was the format I hand carried across. Then why go through all of that, since TB knows how to import it directly? Right. But that wasn't what I started with. That was when I ended up with and as you said, imported directly. Once I had converted to that format.
I recall the conversion involved using Outlook on a borrowed Windows machine but don't recall the details.
I only did it once and I think it was the kind of stress induced trauma that causes amnesia. (Using windows often does that to me.)
I've been using the address book that had been exported as ldif from kmail. It needs a lot of work:
Have you tried using a cvs file? it is much easier to work with if you need to modify things.
Many (several hundred) of the records lack a Display Name. Referring back to kmail, I see that they don't have one there either -- for whatever reason, they have only a first and last name -- but kmail is smart enough to rely on those, and the record is displayed as though there is a Display Name. Thunderbird, on the other hand, seeing only first and last names, displays the user name of the record's email address. I'm sure this is very clever (no, I'm not), but it is also unhelpful in cases where the username is something like happygardener2463, so these have to be fixed.
The displayed list shows only Work telephone numbers; to see Home numbers, the record has to be opened.
The default formating option is "Unknown", and has to be set individually to "HTML" or "Plain Text" for each record. I never send HTML messages, but I have not found a way to set "Plain Text" globally. I will have to do this for all 600+ records individually, to make TB stop asking me what I want to do.
Go to "Edit" --> "Account Settings" and under "Composition and Addressing" uncheck the "Compose message in HTML format" check box. All messages will then be composed in plain text.
The developers of the TB address book did not invest a lot of thought in its design.
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