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Import contacts into Thunderbird???

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pbehrend
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-hi friends,

I am desperately trying to import a contact book into TB. In CSV format. All I get get is 100's of unreadable records. My version of TB is 115.4.3 (latest). The import tool provides no info whatsoever about the CSV format. I found a bit of info about the format on Mozilla. I only need a few fields for the record. First Name, Last Name, Home Email, Work Email. These are supposed to be field numbers 1,2,5,6. I made a CSV file according to this, but import is as said impossible. Has anyone had any luck with this? regards /peter

-hi friends, I am desperately trying to import a contact book into TB. In CSV format. All I get get is 100's of unreadable records. My version of TB is 115.4.3 (latest). The import tool provides no info whatsoever about the CSV format. I found a bit of info about the format on Mozilla. I only need a few fields for the record. First Name, Last Name, Home Email, Work Email. These are supposed to be field numbers 1,2,5,6. I made a CSV file according to this, but import is as said impossible. Has anyone had any luck with this? regards /peter

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david
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It's a little tricky. To ensure you have the columns that TB wants, I suggest creating a csv export of what is already there, then open in a spreadsheet program to view the header row. That lets you know the default. Now, open your desired csv in the spreadsheet program and be sure to have a header row with text that matches the text of the sample. Save that as csv and on the import, it should be easier to specify the right columns.