Plea for help

[triskellian]

Does anyone have/know of a program that can import in vcard format and export in CSV or tab-delimited values? It seems to me like a pretty standard sort of thing to want, but none of the software I have, either on my work PC or my home Mac, seems to be capable of it.

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[mr-snips.livejournal.com]

Would Dawn work?

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[triskellian]

Looks promising - I'll investigate. Thanks!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't work, you could try this.

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[triskellian]

Ooh, thanks, I'll give that a try. 'Specially cos Dawn refuses to install cos it says I already have it, which I don't.

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[mr-snips.livejournal.com]

Should have said - to install Dawn you need to double click on the "dawn.msi" file, not the setup.exe file.

(This confuses everyone. Those wacky Russians, eh?)

It may ask you to download the "Microsoft Windows Installer" before it will do anything, but it should tell you where to get it.

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[triskellian]

Have you used that before, or did you just find it? Because it just returns an empty file for me...

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

How many do you need to do? One of my current projects at work involves importing the vcard format, but the code doesn't run on Windows. So if there's a bunch of them that you need to do once, I may be able to just do it for you.

Also note that the vcard format is mostly human-readable. Open a .vcf file in a text editor and you'll see.

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[triskellian]

I need to do one vcard file, containing lots of records (as exported by the Mac Address Book app), just once. I know it's human-readable, but I couldn't figure out a way of changing it from text to csv without having to do most of it manually.

I'll email it to you - many thanks!

(No success with Dawn, either, although I have now successfully installed it - it doesn't seem to correctly import all the data.)