Tim Murray2

Q: Not all VCF contacts are importing

I had a sync issue where nearly every card was duplicated, but all data; for example, for two cards, one would be complete but the other would be missing the state or, say, LinkedIn data. I went through over 2000 cards and fixed them. I exported them all to a VCF 3.0 file and a backup abbu file, and deleted everything to get a fresh start.

 

What's happening is that on import of the VCF, only the letters A and B are imported, but if I look at with a text editor, it has everyone from A to Z. An earlier VCF -- I exported at various times to keep a snapshot -- which was named "Contact and 2459 others", does the same thing, just A and B.

 

The abbu file has only the A people and a text editor seems to confirm.

 

Anyone know what's wrong?

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), 8 GB

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 8:56 PM

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  • by Tim Murray2,

    Tim Murray2 Tim Murray2 Sep 21, 2016 9:39 PM in response to Tim Murray2
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    Sep 21, 2016 9:39 PM in response to Tim Murray2

    I found I have not lost them -- I imported them into my iCloud's Contacts and I got all but 17. Thanks to the message I don't know who those 17 are, but right now, I don't care.

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    Tim Murray2 Tim Murray2 Sep 21, 2016 11:24 PM in response to Tim Murray2
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    Sep 21, 2016 11:24 PM in response to Tim Murray2

    Found it. Apparently there is a bug. At the end of some cards there was this, as shown in Text Wrangler:

    VCF_shot.png

    Selected and pasted into another email I got the same thing. But when pasted into this particular email I got this:

    X-ABUID:26D9C9F0-D7E4-4FF3-AC43-CCAFF896C8A5:ABPerson

    label;charset=utf-8;type=work;type=pref:1500 Highlands Ave\nMadison\, WI 53703-2280

    END:VCARD

     

    Notice the TextWranger screen says Nashville, TN, which is where he works, but the pasted text says Madison, WI, which is the exact address where other people in the same group work.

     

    Anyway if I removed everything between ABPerson and END, it would import. Also, most but not all of the bad cards were from the same Group.