Outport Rocked....
using ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake - evolution 2.6.1 and outlook 2003. burned my eyes out trying to get native wine to work with office 2003 and it simply wasn't taking.
i used a combination of this tutorial's instructions (for inbox only) and outport for calendar and contacts. outport rocked, and very painlessly helped me. the directory structure is a little different for evo 2.6.1, but easy enough to figure out, unless you're really really very really new to linux and/or file browsers. from the outport documentation: replace "~/evolution/local/Contacts" with "~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system" and (although undocumented) copy files from "local/Calendar" to "~/.evolution/calendar/local/system" voila! one step closer to freedom. BIG time thanks to the outport team. wow. |
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I learned a quick way to export all contacts from outlook as vcard files and then import them to evolution:
1. Within outlook, select all contact by click Ctrl+A (or select the ones you interested), go to menu "Action", send the contacts as vcards, then you will get many individual vcard files. 2. Copy the vcard files into one folder under linux and do cat *.vcf > allinonefile.vcf , by this way you have all the contacts within one file which makes Evolution happy. 3. Import the allinonefile.vcf to Evolution. Man this step is too easy to describe. Notes for CJK users: If you got wrong encoding problem, you may need to convert the allinonefile.vcf to correct encoding before importing to Evolution. |
Easier way to get it
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This is the easiest and quickest way i guess. |
Using Evolution 2.26.1, if you go to the program's help and search for "outlook", you'll get instructions to export your contacts & calendar from outlook as CSV (DOS). In Outlook 2003, doing that for contacts doesn't work (when you import, you get thousands of bogus contact data); doing that for calendar doesn't work either (nothing gets imported).
Also using Outport for exporting calendar didn't work for me; evolution didn't recognize the ics file as valid. The solution I found was to install Outlook 2007 (if you don't have it, grab the free Trial from Microsoft), and: - Export contacts as CSV as before - Export calendar by using Save As, as explained here. This way, not only did it work well, but also avoided problems with recurring events, which don't get exported correctly by exporting to CSV. You can import these into Google Calendar (nice to have SMS notifications!) and Google Mail contacts. The only problem seems to be that characters like "ñ" get scrambled. |
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How to use: in Outlook go to Tools | Macros and create a new macro; copy paste the few code lines below (note that you need to modify one line!); close macro editor. Then switch in Outlook to your contacts folder, select (highlight) the ones to export. In the Outlook menu go to Tools | Macros and start the newly created macro. Code:
Sub vCardexportieren() HTH, Al_ |
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