On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 22:28 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Craig White wrote: > <snip> > >> I just discovered that the mbox files are *not* the problem! Exporting > >> my Address book from Evolution is not intuitively obvious. I found a web > >> page from May 2006, that says: > >> "Export the evolution address book with the evolution-addressbook-export > >> utility in csv format" and it said to use this command: > >> /usr/lib/evolution/2.X/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv > > >> contacts.csv > >> but I cannot find evolution-addressbook-export there. > >> I have been using Evolution for years, because Upstream defaults to it, > >> but YUK..... I am moving to Thunderbird and I am not going to look back. > >> I will keep searching, for a hopefully simple way to Export my contacts > >> from Evolution, so I can Import them into Thunderbird..... :-) > > ---- > > /usr/libexec/evolution/2.8/evolution-addressbook-export > > Craig: Cool. I just posted that I found a way around it (exporting .vcf > and then using a converter on the web to .ldif and .csv formats) but you > are correct, I did find evolution-addressbook-export > in /usr/libexec/evolution/2.12/ > It wasn't where I was looking for it, from the post I'd read. Had I not > found a way around it, you would have saved the day.... Thanks! Lanny ---- you must be using CentOS-4 and that version of Evolution is really, really old. I'm not sure that ancient version of evolution-addressbook-export can export directly to csv but if so, that would be more usable for importing into thunderbird. Craig