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
Found it. Apparently there is a bug. At the end of some cards there was this, as shown in Text Wrangler:
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.
Posted on Sep 21, 2016 11:24 PM
