[Evolution] Editing Contacts data

Trevor Lupton email@trevorlupton.co.uk
01 Aug 2003 17:12:54 +0100


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Sorry for the slightly misleading bit about Mozilla - that was for
transferring email. The contacts problem came when importing the vcf
files that had been produced via csv2vcard.

Anyway this worked:

Open the vcf file in OpenOffice (or whatever) and do the find and
replace there before importing.

Temporarily change the genuine PO Box entries first to something like
"&&&" by searching for "PO Box PO Box" and change them back at the end
to "PO Box".

I found that I had to do two searches to get the job done fully - once
on "PO Box" and again on "PO Box " (that's a space after Box).

Anyway - job done - I had a lot of addresses otherwise!

Trevor Lupton

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:43, Trevor Lupton wrote:

> When transferring from Outlook/Windows to Evolution via Mozilla the
> process appends "PO Box" to every entry in the Business Address field.
> 
> I would like to get at the data to edit these out with some form of
> find & replace.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Trevor Lupton
> 39 Meads Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 2NA 
> Email: email@trevorlupton.co.uk
> Tel: 01483 575322 
> Mobile: 07799 661174


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Trevor Lupton
39 Meads Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 2NA 
Email: email@trevorlupton.co.uk
Tel: 01483 575322 
Mobile: 07799 661174


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Sorry for the slightly misleading bit about Mozilla - that was for transferring email. The contacts problem came when importing the vcf files that had been produced via csv2vcard.<BR>
<BR>
Anyway this worked:<BR>
<BR>
Open the vcf file in OpenOffice (or whatever) and do the find and replace there before importing.<BR>
<BR>
Temporarily change the genuine PO Box entries first to something like &quot;&amp;&amp;&amp;&quot; by searching for &quot;PO Box PO Box&quot; and change them back at the end to &quot;PO Box&quot;.<BR>
<BR>
I found that I had to do two searches to get the job done fully - once on &quot;PO Box&quot; and again on &quot;PO Box &quot; (that's a space after Box).<BR>
<BR>
Anyway - job done - I had a lot of addresses otherwise!<BR>
<BR>
Trevor Lupton<BR>
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On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:43, Trevor Lupton wrote:
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    <FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>When transferring from Outlook/Windows to Evolution via Mozilla the process appends &quot;PO Box&quot; to every entry in the Business Address field.<BR>
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    I would like to get at the data to edit these out with some form of find &amp; replace.<BR>
    <BR>
    Any suggestions?</I></FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE="3"><B>Trevor Lupton</B></FONT><BR>
39 Meads Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 2NA <BR>
Email: <A HREF="mailto:email@trevorlupton.co.uk"><U>email@trevorlupton.co.uk</U></A><BR>
Tel: 01483 575322 <BR>
Mobile: 07799 661174
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<FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE="3"><B>Trevor Lupton</B></FONT><BR>
39 Meads Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 2NA <BR>
Email: <A HREF="mailto:email@trevorlupton.co.uk"><U>email@trevorlupton.co.uk</U></A><BR>
Tel: 01483 575322 <BR>
Mobile: 07799 661174
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