Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays & anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-28 Thread theapplepie
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 2:38 pm From: Milan Crha > nobody got to it yet, > see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258920 Wow, for more than 10 years. Maybe it is too complicated. I will add a comment to the bug, maybe somebody will have mercy on this bug. ___

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays & anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread theapplepie
-Original Message- From: Adam Tauno Williams > It should be possible to write a Python script to grab the data you are > interested from EDS and write it to a file. If you are interested in > such a solution I am willing to take a stab at it. If you are scripting-handy the Python module

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays & anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread theapplepie
-Original Message- From: Milan Crha > the CSV format is worse than the vCard format, because the vCard format > holds any detail, while the CSV is only that what the developers think > is important. The vCard is a standardized format, while CSV is just > about plain text lines of some data

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays & anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread theapplepie
Hi Milan Thanks a lot! The tool also works on Ubuntu 14.04, although it is in a slightly different folder, command example: /usr/lib/evolution/3.10/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv –output=/home/.../mycontacts.csv The format csv is surely easier to process than vcf. A question from a

[Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays & anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-24 Thread theapplepie
Hi! Does anybody know how to extract a list of names and birthdays & anniversaries out of Evolution? I tried to export the address book as vcf and then convert it in a list, but did not succeed. I searched the internet for a solution without success. I wonder whether it is possible, e.g. through L