[kaddressbook] [Bug 424940] Add support for importing Windows contacts from .contact XML files

[Laurent Montel]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424940

--- Comment #9 from Laurent Montel <montel at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Skylar Ittner from comment #4)
> I actually use Linux full-time, but I encounter contacts folders when
> migrating clients over to Linux. I believe Outlook and some other Microsoft
> apps used to store contacts in there. Windows 10 does not, opting instead to
> use the People app which, while being a desktop app, requires logging into a
> web version to export contacts.
> 
> The main reason this is valuable is because all the people who upgraded from
> Windows 7 to Windows 10 have a contacts folder, and it's not unlikely that
> there are contacts in it that they might want in the event they switch to
> Linux or require data recovery. I opened this feature request after a client
> came to me with an old laptop running Windows 10 on a failing drive with
> several hundred contacts in the folder.
> 
> I'm attaching some contact files with the real info replaced in a text
> editor.

Ok as I only windows 10 I can't have more test.
But thanks a lot for your test case it will be very useful !
I will continue to implement it.

Regards

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