[kdepim-users] CSV Export Re-arranges Data

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:53:06 John Gutierrez wrote:
> Wow, am I unhappy.
> 
> I just upgraded from 4.3.5 to 4.4. After exporting (CSV) my contacts from
> the "migrated" addressbook and running all of my shell scripts to create
> html pages, I discovered that the Data was all JUMBLED!
> 
Have you actually examined the contact files under 
/home/you/.local/share/contacts?  You are assuming that they are scrambed, 
whereas it could equally be something in your export that has gone wrong.  
Certainly I've not heard of anyone else reporting such a problem.

> Looking at the 'header' file of the exported files, I discovered that
> indeed, the fields have been substantially moved around.
> 
> There was no warning that this would happen during the "automatic migration
> process'" which took place when opening the application for the first time.
> 
As I said, I have not heard of anyone else experiencing this.  The first thing 
is to look at the originals, not the exported files.

> I would consider this a major problem for anyone using csv exports in a
> production environment.  For me, it is a great pain to redo all of my shell
> scripts for my personal use.  Please don't do this again.
> 
Do what?  You haven't ascertained what the problem is yet.  Since it's not 
being commonly seen you have to look for something that has gone wrong at your 
end.

> I hope that the other export choices were not so drastically affected.
> 
What was your purpose in exporting them?

> I'm using OpenSUSE 11.2 and updated from their Desktop Factory repository.
> 
Isn't Desktop Factory their testing/unstable package repository?

Anne
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