Very Computer

I use MSOutlook / Exchange for calendaring at work, and KOrganizer at
home.  Getting between these two has been a trick, till I found a
Windows based product called OutLook2Mac.

http://www.littlemachines.com

Works like a dream and seems to handle duplicates cleanly.  Also does
your email and contacts, but I haven't gotten that working (yet)...
The best part is that at $10 it is very reasonably priced.

Anyone with advice on a free or cheap way to get my contacts cleanly
into kaddressbook please feel free to comment...

Can you export to .csv from Outlook? It looks as if kabc's 'Import List' on
the File menu can read .csv format.

--
Garry Knight

Linux registered user 182025

Garry, Here's what my experience has been with your question...

If I export Outlook contacts to .csv format and import into
kaddressbook, the fields are different, and you must try to match up
its corresponding equivilent in the other format (e.g. the field
"first name" may be in different spots in the .csv file and where
kaddressbook looks for it, you must manually match these).  I have not
been able to fudge this to make it work in any satisfactory way...

[snip]

I wish I could help further, but I don't use Outlook, or Windows for that
matter. You might care to ask on the comp.windows.x.kde newsgroup for
guidance on how to make it work. If no one there knows, maybe they'll know
where to redirect you.

--
Garry Knight

Linux registered user 182025

Call MS helpdesk perhaps? =)

--
Juha Siltala

I haven't tried this, but can you import the Outlook .csv file into a
spreadsheet and then move the columns into the order that kaddressbook
needs, save the file as .csv and then import it into kaddressbook?

Nick

P> If I export Outlook contacts to .csv format and import into
P> kaddressbook, the fields are different, and you must try to match up
P> its corresponding equivilent in the other format (e.g. the field
P> "first name" may be in different spots in the .csv file and where
P> kaddressbook looks for it, you must manually match these).  I have not
P> been able to fudge this to make it work in any satisfactory way...

You could rearrange the Outlook generated csv output, with something
like:

$ awk -F , '{c=","; print $2 c $1 c $3 c $4}' <outlook.csv >kaddb.csv

(This was just an example, you must put the right field numbers in there)

Nick,

I appreciate the suggestion, and it (probably) would work, but I work
between many different machines but only two OS (MS and Linux) so I
guess I'm only looking for something that will so this purely on a
software level with no manual steps.  Don't want much, do I ;-)

I'm going to keep looking on the contacts part, but the clean calendar
transfer makes this product worth every penny.

Nedavno Paul pi1e:

| > > If I export Outlook contacts to .csv format and import into
| > > kaddressbook, the fields are different, and you must try to match up
| > > its corresponding equivilent in the other format (e.g. the field
| > > "first name" may be in different spots in the .csv file and where
| > > kaddressbook looks for it, you must manually match these).  I have not
| > > been able to fudge this to make it work in any satisfactory way...
| >
| > I haven't tried this, but can you import the Outlook .csv file into a
| > spreadsheet and then move the columns into the order that kaddressbook
| > needs, save the file as .csv and then import it into kaddressbook?
| >
| > Nick
|
| Nick,
|
| I appreciate the suggestion, and it (probably) would work, but I work
| between many different machines but only two OS (MS and Linux) so I
| guess I'm only looking for something that will so this purely on a
| software level with no manual steps.  Don't want much, do I ;-)
|
| I'm going to keep looking on the contacts part, but the clean calendar
| transfer makes this product worth every penny.

I do not knew if this will help but if you can export from Outlook to
Outlook Express, you can (as far as I can remember) export contacts into
plain txt file with fields separated by "," Kaddressbook -> File -> Import
List should work with exported file. Maybe Outlook can export to txt file
too?

--
======================================================================
      ___     ____
     /__/    /    \
    /  / \  /  /\  \      **** NoSpam email address. Reply at:  ****
   /  /\  \/  /--\  \
  /__/  \____/----\__\    **** perlica - at - yahoo - dot - com ****

======================================================================