On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > 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. No. This is CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) and fully updated. I noticed last night that you have Evolution 2.8. [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ uname -a Linux dell2400.homelan 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 5 07:41:53 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I did the migration from Evolution to Thunderbird, for my main email account today and and am up and running. :-) I imported the contacts as .ldif and it worked very well. :-) I suspect much better than if I had imported the contacts as .csv