Evolution : oh my god !

[vailima]

.. re. the "MBOX" format ...

While Emailing is without question of interest here with regard to Evolution, the whole of the PIM Evolution file is of even greater interst ... has a whale of a lot of potential.

As for "CSV" it's simple, and quite "old" format, where the given data $trings (i.e., your last name would be one $string, your first name would be another $tring, your title (Mr. Mrs. Ms. etc) would be yet a third $tring, which when combined would be one given data file, with all of the $trings seperated only by a comma (","). 

Most database and spreadsheet software(s) can readily import such CSV infomation, which and for what it may be worth may be a good idea to save those valuable data and/or spread sheet files, not only in the "native" format but in CSV as well.

But, thanks for trying to help. It was appreciated.






>
>Subject: Re: Evolution : oh my god !
>   From: The_Eye_In_The_Sky <syiwabhairawa at yahoo.com.sg>
>   Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:39:30 +0800
>     To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 11:21 -0400, vailima wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Just as you see it below, without using the period(s) in front of each data $tring, open Evolution and try to IMPORT the data as you see it, into Evolution ...
>> 
>>  Last Name
>>  First Name
>>  Title
>>  Mailing Address
>>  City
>>  State
>>  Zip Code
>>  Country
>>  Telephone 
>>  FAX
>> 
>> The above data is in the ASCII format (also known as TeXT format)
>> 
>> I have files on spreadsheets which could be copied and stored in the CSV (comma seperated values) format, then possibly be imported into Evolution, but the only selection available in Evolution, is for importing files from another Evolution program.
>> 
>> Now do you see what I mean?
>
>Whoa, in this case we are talking on the different thing here. I am
>talking about the Evolution as e-mail client, which is using standard
>MBOX format, where you are talking about Evolution as Personal
>Information Manager (Contacts, Calendars, Tasks). The main thread was
>talking about e-mail actually.
>
>For your case, since I never did the import-export of Contacs data on
>CSV format, I do not have the answer. What I did for transferring the
>Contact data between Outlook, Evolution and my Palm Dekstop is by using
>VCF file transfer, and the simplest carrier for the thing is the Palm
>hardware itself :D
>
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