Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-10 Thread Matthias Kuntze
s- entries (field N). You then can do diff/meld and merge as you like. Matthias Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Jonathan Ryshpan Antwort an: jonr...@pacbell.net An: evolution-list@gnome.org Betreff: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists Datum: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 07:15:43 -0700 I have two con

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-10 Thread George Reeke
On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 22:20 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Caution: External email > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 16:31 +0200, Andre Klapper via evolution-list > wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 07:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > I have two contact lists, which are very similar but not quite > >

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-10 Thread Andre Klapper via evolution-list
On Wed, 2022-08-10 at 09:21 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Dnia 10.08.2022 o godz. 09:15:39 Andre Klapper via evolution-list > pisze: > > > > I hope not. CSV is one of the most broken and error-prone formats out > > there (no proper character encoding info, etc) if you don't know ASCII- > > named pe

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-10 Thread Milan Crha via evolution-list
On Wed, 2022-08-10 at 09:00 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > I would export both lists to CSV Hi, it's possible to right-click any item in an address book (a simple contact or a contact list) and choose Save as vCard. There is also /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/addressbook-export wh

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-10 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 10.08.2022 o godz. 09:15:39 Andre Klapper via evolution-list pisze: > > I hope not. CSV is one of the most broken and error-prone formats out > there (no proper character encoding info, etc) if you don't know ASCII- > named people only. If at all I'd go for JSON or such. CSV must die. Isn't

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-10 Thread Andre Klapper via evolution-list
On Wed, 2022-08-10 at 09:00 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > but is there an option of > exporting/importing the contact list to/from CSV format? > > If yes, I would export both lists to CSV, merge them using "meld" or a > similar program and import the merged list back. I hope not. CSV is one of the

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-10 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 9.08.2022 o godz. 22:20:24 Jonathan Ryshpan pisze: > A very good question. For a long time I had a unified list of contacts, > maintained by Google, which was available both to my cell phone and to > evolution. Then Google changed its login procedure so that evolution was > no longer able to

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 22:20 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 16:31 +0200, Andre Klapper via evolution-list > wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 07:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > I have two contact lists, which are very similar but not quite > > > the > > > same. What's

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 16:31 +0200, Andre Klapper via evolution-list wrote: > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 07:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I have two contact lists, which are very similar but not quite the > > same. What's the best way to combine them? > > Please see https://xyproblem.info/ . Whi

Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-09 Thread Andre Klapper via evolution-list
Hi, On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 07:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have two contact lists, which are very similar but not quite the > same. What's the best way to combine them? Please see https://xyproblem.info/ . Which problem would that solve? Thanks, andre -- Andre Klapper  |  ak...@gmx.net h

[Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

2022-08-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have two contact lists, which are very similar but not quite the same. What's the best way to combine them? -- Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is