On 26/11/11 20:00, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 26/11/11 19:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 19:09 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>> Is there a Linux application that will display a .vcf file?
>>> Depends what you mean by "display". Most of the mail clients can import
>>> VCF files as contact records.
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>> I'm not sure myself, a text editor or Libreoffice will display
>> the raw data but apparently there is some format the data goes into.
>>
>> My daughter has nothing but Apple equipment and has been on the
>> phone with them for hours this weekend trying to sort out some
>> problem, came around with the phone in her ear still talking and
>> asked if I could display those files. I have never seen anything
>> that convinces me the Mac is easy to use! Always problems and my
>> daughter is computer literate.
>>
>> Google describes them as some sort of record cards that can be
>> displayed in OSX and Windows. I didn't find anything like that
>> for Linux. I certainly don't want the stuff in my Thunderbird app.
>>
>> Just though there might be something I haven't found.
> It's a little awkward, but you can install the "vobject" Python module
> and use it to read it:
>
> sudo yum install python-vobject
> python -c 'import vobject; vobject.readOne(open("file.vcf")).prettyPrint()'
>
> -T.C.
I was able to display some of the data in a new Thunderbird
account's address book. There are about 2000 "cards," about 21
megs of data! The T-bird address book only displays some of the
data, I guess just in columns it recognizes, Name and E-Mail
addresses. At least it shows that the data is probably all there.
The above routine almost works but only begins to show some
gibberish from the beginning:
[bobg@box9 ~]$ python -c 'import vobject;
vobject.readOne(open("/home/bobg/Documents/11-26-2011-H2-DAD.vcf")).prettyPrint()'
VCARD
UID: cfc17ee7-1f82-4cdc-8b5a-16a7aec4915e
X-ABUID: F0DB8EEF-5404-453B-B89A-CECE2841FB04:ABPerson
CATEGORIES: [u'ALL-Cards-Sep-2011', u'card']
N:
NOTE: As of April- 2011
ginette GREENE
Matthew-Lucas GREENE
Robert GOODWIN
4382
5802
9289
8005
4382580292898005
fulload55
smiles01
VERSION: 3.0
PRODID: -//Apple Inc.//Address Book 6.1//EN
X-ABSHOWAS: COMPANY
ORG: [u'AAA']
FN: AAA
I expected to see it list all 2000 records? I don't know how to
deal with that but would be interested in seeing it.
Thanks for considering this, I appreciate the responses.
Bob
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