On 26/11/11 20:00, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Bob
Goodwin<bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net> wrote:
> On 26/11/11 19:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 19:09 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>> Is there a Linux application that will display a .vcf file?
>> Depends what you mean by "display". Most of the mail clients
can import
>> VCF files as contact records.
>>
>> poc
>>
> I'm not sure myself, a text editor or Libreoffice will display
> the raw data but apparently there is some format the data goes into.
>
> My daughter has nothing but Apple equipment and has been on the
> phone with them for hours this weekend trying to sort out some
> problem, came around with the phone in her ear still talking and
> asked if I could display those files. I have never seen anything
> that convinces me the Mac is easy to use! Always problems and my
> daughter is computer literate.
>
> Google describes them as some sort of record cards that can be
> displayed in OSX and Windows. I didn't find anything like that
> for Linux. I certainly don't want the stuff in my Thunderbird
app.
>
> Just though there might be something I haven't found.
It's a little awkward, but you can install the "vobject" Python
module
and use it to read it:
sudo yum install python-vobject
python -c 'import vobject;
vobject.readOne(open("file.vcf")).prettyPrint()'
-T.C.
I was able to display some of the data in a new Thunderbird
account's address book. There are about 2000 "cards," about 21
megs of data! The T-bird address book only displays some of the
data, I guess just in columns it recognizes, Name and E-Mail
addresses. At least it shows that the data is probably all there.
The above routine almost works but only begins to show some
gibberish from the beginning:
[bobg@box9 ~]$ python -c 'import vobject;
vobject.readOne(open("/home/bobg/Documents/11-26-2011-H2-DAD.vcf")).prettyPrint()'
VCARD
UID: cfc17ee7-1f82-4cdc-8b5a-16a7aec4915e
X-ABUID: F0DB8EEF-5404-453B-B89A-CECE2841FB04:ABPerson
CATEGORIES: [u'ALL-Cards-Sep-2011', u'card']
N:
NOTE: As of April- 2011
ginette GREENE
Matthew-Lucas GREENE
Robert GOODWIN
4382
5802
9289
8005
4382580292898005
fulload55
smiles01
VERSION: 3.0
PRODID: -//Apple Inc.//Address Book 6.1//EN
X-ABSHOWAS: COMPANY
ORG: [u'AAA']
FN: AAA
I expected to see it list all 2000 records? I don't know how to
deal with that but would be interested in seeing it.
Thanks for considering this, I appreciate the responses.
Bob