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Old 07-09-2009
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Importing Thunderbird contacts into Windows Vista Contacts
I am having problems importing contacts into Vista Contacts.

I tried 2 things :

1/ LDIF
I exported my contacts in Thunderbird under an LDIF format.
I then imported this LDIF file within Contacts
The import stops 1/5 of the way, simply saying that there is an error in the contacts, and it stays stuck

2/ CVS
I exported my contacts in Thunderbird under a CVS file
I then tried to import the file within Contacts but cannot do the mapping:
- all column headings are lumped together, with plenty of ","
- all accentuated caracters are replaced by squares

Also, with the LDIF method, 50 contacts out of 300 were imported. In these imported contacts, all accentuated caracters were replaced by symbols.

I opened the CVS file in Microsoft Excel: everything is fine.

Any solution to this import problem?
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