On 26/11/11 20:00, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin@wildblue.net> 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