Important Notice: We're experiencing email notification issues. If you've posted a question in the community forums recently, please check your profile manually for responses while we're working to fix this.

On Monday the 3rd of March, around 5pm UTC (9am PT) users may experience a brief period of downtime while one of our underlying services is under maintenance.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Import address book from csv file

  • 1 jibu
  • 2 wana tatizo hili
  • 1 view
  • Last reply by Matt

adrian_y
adrian_y
more options

Converted my outlook address book to a csv file, but when I import it into firefox the entries are not the same as the file. names and email addresses are no longer matched. I have about 1800 addresses and do not want to manually enter these again.

Converted my outlook address book to a csv file, but when I import it into firefox the entries are not the same as the file. names and email addresses are no longer matched. I have about 1800 addresses and do not want to manually enter these again.

All Replies (1)

Matt
Matt
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

I suggest you examine the CSV for poorly encoded strings like Mike,McEvoy which can turn nicely formatted CSV files into a mess because if the stay commas.

You might try opening the file in LibreOffice's calc and seeing it there are stray commas in what imports. I do not recommend using Excel as it makes a total hash of Unicode text. Requiring extra steps to import the data and export it again in a format other unicode programs can read. Sad really. But the demise of excel may be in it's inability to cope with unicode.