asked 2016-11-18 19:39:52 +0200
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a way to export contacts via SSH? The phone's screen is smashed so obviously I can't use the gui, however the 'phone still works and I can SSH in just fine.
Thanks,
AB
answered 2016-11-18 19:59:10 +0200
Here's how I'd do it........first off, download WinSCP on your PC and install it (I'm assuming you are using Windows) https://winscp.net/eng/download.php
Connect your device to your PC and login to terminal and type this;
invoker --type=generic /usr/bin/vcardconverter -e /home/nemo/Documents/contacts.vcf - this will export contacts to a file in Documents called contacts.vcf
Now login to your device via WinSCP(you can be logged into the device with ssh and winscp at the same time) find the exported .vcf file and drag/drop it to your PC.
There is probably a more fancy way of doing this in terminal , but this should yield the desired result.
This does not export all contacts - on my device only 61 from about 300. If I understand right, all the contacts synced from some cloud are missing. If you need those from the phone (if you can't sync with the cloud anymore for example, and no thats not uncommon), you're lost.
Also there's no way I know of to check which contacts are missing. Exporting them through the export function gets the same 61 incomplete contacts.
Flox ( 2018-12-27 17:37:51 +0200 )editAsked: 2016-11-18 19:39:52 +0200
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On Ubuntu actually. That worked perfectly, thanks!
Antti Branninen ( 2016-11-18 20:05:08 +0200 )edit