Comments on: Import Thunderbird Contacts Into GMail

By: Help, can't import Thunderbird contacts into Gmail - PreCentral Forums

Help, can't import Thunderbird contacts into Gmail - PreCentral Forums — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:34:03 +0000

[...] to gmail Anton Olsen.com

By: Karri Flatla

Karri Flatla — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:53:14 +0000

PS: Of course, one caveat to my recommendation above is that you lose any other info you might have in your contact database like physical addresses, etc. This solution looks promising however: http://www.matthewjmiller.net/howtos/importing-gmail-contacts-from-thunderbird/

By: Karri Flatla

Karri Flatla — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:50:20 +0000

All you have to do is delete every column but First Name, Last Name and Primary Email. Rename Primary Email to just say Email. Now when you import the .csv file into Gmail it works beautifully. I didn’t do any specially programming or Cygwin/Shell stuff

Cheers!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:25:47 +0000

I have done this with Cygwin and Thunderbird on Windows Vista and the command above and import to gmail worked perfectly!

But as mentioned above it would be possible to just delete all the columns except “First Name”, “Last Name”, “Primary Email” in the original csv using excel or open source equivalent. Just need to rename column “Primary Email” to “Email”, and make sure you save it again as a .csv.

By: anton

anton — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:48:34 +0000

If you manually entered the contacts into excel, why didn’t you just manually enter them into gmail? It would take about the same amount of time.

To import into gmail, all you need is a clean CSV with 3 columns: First Name, Last Name, Email. Create that however you want, then import it into gmail.

You could open the original tbird contacts file in excel, deleted the columns that gmail doesn’t need, save as CSV, and import it into gmail.

By: Daryl Miechel

Daryl Miechel — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:31:59 +0000

Hey Guys none of this is any help to me as I dunno what a Shell or Cygwin or any of the stuff you talk about is?? I have manually Transferred all my Contacts From T/ Bird into an Excel File on the desktop called “MyExportCONTACTS Gmail” saved as csv excel file I have Manually made Header’s as Name and Email adress in A1 & B1 columns – then listed all of them down to 50 AB whta next? Dasha

By: Importing Thunderbird contacts into GMail | Fuzzy Logic

Importing Thunderbird contacts into GMail | Fuzzy Logic — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:26:34 +0000

[...] default .CSV file, GMail doesn’t properly parse the contact info. Luckily, I found this blog post with a solution. It only works for Linux users, but that’s fine with [...]

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:33:51 +0000

Thanks Johan!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:52:35 +0000

Thanks it worked !

By: Anton

Anton — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:26:28 +0000

Yes, there is a cut command in unix.

You can get one in windows too if you install http://www.cygwin.com/.