MX-18.1: Simple (GUI-based) tool for merging vCard ("VCF") files?

[MX-16_fan]

@all:

I have some vCard files here and would like to merge them into one. Amazingly it seems to be difficult to find a simple tool that can do this.

Any ideas?

A tool with a GUI would be preferred. Console applications would be second choice, command line would be third choice.


Greetings, and thanks in advance for any hint, Joe

[spanizdogs]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pimsort/postdownload

https://github.com/mbideau/vcardtools

https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/morecols-en.html

I do not know anything about the tools.

Eric

[MX-16_fan]

@spanizdogs:

Thanks, there's some somewhat useful match among these.

Short comments on the links:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pimsort/postdownload

PIMSort: "Status: Beta", version number: 0.1, source code only, no website, apparently from 2008 -> not too useful.

https://github.com/mbideau/vcardtools

vcardtools: Description: "Automatically fix, split, normalize, group and merge/deduplicate vCard and VCF files (even large ones).". Restrictions: "... outputs only vCard 3.0 format", "accept[s only] 2.1 and 3.0 vCard format", not in MX-18.1's (Debian's) repos -> of some use.

https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/morecols-en.html

MoreFunctionsForAddressBook: Works only in combination with Thunderbird, only beta version available for Thunderbird versions > 2.0. -> not too useful.



Greetings, Joe

[spanizdogs]

@spanizdogs:

Thanks, there's some somewhat useful match among these.

Short comments on the links:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pimsort/postdownload

PIMSort: "Status: Beta", version number: 0.1, source code only, no website, apparently from 2008 -> not too useful.

https://github.com/mbideau/vcardtools

vcardtools: Description: "Automatically fix, split, normalize, group and merge/deduplicate vCard and VCF files (even large ones).". Restrictions: "... outputs only vCard 3.0 format", "accept[s only] 2.1 and 3.0 vCard format", not in MX-18.1's (Debian's) repos -> of some use.

https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/morecols-en.html

MoreFunctionsForAddressBook: Works only in combination with Thunderbird, only beta version available for Thunderbird versions > 2.0. -> not too useful.



Greetings, Joe

Thanks .... :)

[spanizdogs]

Hi Joe,

Its a while ago i visit the forum, to see your reaction. Thanks for adding the info.

[spanizdogs]

haha i reacted allready, anyway the message is clear. :)

[MX-16_fan]

@spanizdogs:

Hi Joe,

Its a while ago i visit the forum, to see your reaction. Thanks for adding the info.

You're welcome.

Bottom line would be that it would make sense to (at least) have vcardtools available in the MX Test Repo - at least until some GUI solution is available.

Maybe you'd like to file a package request for vcardtools?


Greetings, Joe