03 April 2006
Exporting Thunderbird contacts to GoogleMail
I've just bought a copy of 'Getting Real', the PDF eBook self-published by 37signals (those purveyors of Web2.0 goodness). They send you a download link which is only valid for a day or so, and they recommend you keep a back up - this made me panic a bit, so I emailed my PDF to my googlemail account. A nice freebie with this approach to backing up (i.e. storing it in your Gmail account) is that PDFs are viewable as HTML as well. It also put up some AdWords to AJAX tutorials - smart.
Anyway, while I was refreshing myself with GoogleMail, I thought I'd upload my contacts from Thunderbird. Thunderbird provides an Export to CSV option, but it comes out without a header line; the GoogleMail contacts CSV import feature requires a header. So, here's my best shot - paste it in as the first line of your CSV file:
Anyway, while I was refreshing myself with GoogleMail, I thought I'd upload my contacts from Thunderbird. Thunderbird provides an Export to CSV option, but it comes out without a header line; the GoogleMail contacts CSV import feature requires a header. So, here's my best shot - paste it in as the first line of your CSV file:
First Name,Last Name,Display,Nickname,Email,Additional Email,Work Tel,Home Tel,Fax,Pager,Mobile,Home Address 1,Home Address 2,Home City,Home County,Home Post Code,Home Country,Work Address 1,Work Address 2,Work City,Work County,Work Post Code,Work Country,Work Title,Department,Organisation,Work Web Page,Home Web Page,unknown 1,unknown 2,unknown 3,Custom 1,Custom 2,Custom 3,Custom 4,Notes,unknown 4
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