Importing .vcf contacts fails

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Importing .vcf contacts fails

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asked 2015-02-28 18:54:10 +0200

Nuc1eoN
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A few days ago I got my first Jolla. Now I've got the problem that importing .vcf contact files is buggy as hell. I tried everything possible following the official HowTo.

When merging all contacts into one ALL.vcf file it NEVER works and I just see the never ending loading animation.

So as a next step I tried importing single contacts. Out of some strange reason this does work for a few cotnacts but for most it doesn't. This makes no sense at all. I opened the content of two contacts, of which one always gets succefully imported and the other one doesn't: Surprise! There's no difference AT ALL apart from the persons name and the phone number.

e.g.:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:;Simon
TEL;CELL:************
END:VCARD

My OS ver.: Vaarainjärvi

I don't get this... pls help guys!

Greetings, Philip

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answered 2015-04-15 12:41:59 +0200

dyraig

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When I was transferring contacts from my N900 to the Jolla, I found that the linebreaks have some influence. For some odd resons, importing worked best when I converted the .vcf to DOS-style linebreaks (as opposed to Unix-style linebreaks. Visually, you may not see a difference depending on the editor you use. I've used "recode" under Linux to convert the file.

Cheerio, Thomas

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answered 2015-02-28 19:03:59 +0200

rudi
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there are lots of questions regarding vcards, did you check them? e.g.
https://together.jolla.com/question/16298/contact-import-fails-if-there-are-accents-in-vcf/
https://together.jolla.com/question/13842/why-does-the-vcard-vcf-import-fail/

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Yes of course I did... The first question you've linked to mentions the use of accents, but as you see my vcf file is extremely simple without accents. The second question mentions warning/error messages. I dont get those. I just get an never ending loading animation for most contacts.

Nuc1eoN ( 2015-02-28 19:21:46 +0200 )edit

for Version 2.1, I had:
N:;Adi;;;
for Version 3.0
N:Adi;;;;

rudi ( 2015-02-28 20:18:20 +0200 )edit

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answered 2015-03-01 12:47:21 +0200

MikErk
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Could you please add some information about how exactly you tried to concatenate the .vcf-file and how you tried to import them? Maybe which linux/windows system you used. I know that for the Nokia N9 and even for Android you can import .vcf over opening the file via file manager, so I would give a try to that.

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answered 2015-03-01 14:32:40 +0200

Nuc1eoN
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updated 2015-03-01 14:42:25 +0200

I have found a workaround for the issue. It seems that importing vCards of vers. 2.1 is really buggy and unreliable (no matter if imported as single or concentrated .vcf).

Experimentally I converted all my contacts manually to vers. 4.0 - and suddenly it works like charm!

from this:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:;Simon
TEL;CELL:0123456789
END:VCARD

to this:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:4.0
N:;Simon;;;
TEL;TYPE=cell:0123456789
END:VCARD

However it shall still be noted that this state is not acceptable and importing vCard v2.1 should be fixed as fast as possible. I will file a seperate bug report for that.

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Hi,

Your first vCard does not conform to specification. The specification (both IMCvCard2.1 and RFC2426) for the structured name property does not allow partially-specified structured name fields.

RFC2426: "The structured type value corresponds, in sequence, to the Family Name, Given Name, Additional Names, Honorific Prefixes, and Honorific Suffixes. The text components are separated by the SEMI-COLON character (ASCII decimal 59)."

IMCvCard2.1: "The property value consists of the components of the name specified as positional fields separated by the Field Delimiter character (ASCII decimal 59). The property value is a concatenation of the Family Name (first field), Given Name (second field), Additional Names (third field), Name Prefix (fourth field), and Name Suffix (fifth field) strings."

I see no mention that any particular field of the structured name may be omitted, and hence in your vCard it should be specified as: "N:;Simon;;;" rather than "N:;Simon"

Which software are you using to produce your vCard?

Cheers, Chris.

chris.adams ( 2015-03-03 03:06:11 +0200 )edit

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answered 2015-04-14 15:01:29 +0200

Marius

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Hey, I have a similar problem. I use thunderbird and it can export vcards in version 2.1 only. Someone knows a way to make thunderbird produce verion 4.0 vcards or other way of synchronization? Cheers, Mariusz

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