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jobisoft / CategoryManager

[Thunderbird Add-On] Category Manager for Thunderbird contacts, also supports category based contact groups.
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Howto export/import CATEGORIES? #83

Closed Ypot closed 2 years ago

Ypot commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to import and export CATEGORIES in ThunderBird?

Your addon is great, but I can't import vCard 4.0 CATEGORIES and that makes CategoryManager to lose robustness.

jobisoft commented 2 years ago

That is tricky. The add-on is from an age, where Thunderbird did not support CardDAV or vCard 4.0. The categories are stored in a simple property. You can export them using the export function of the CategoryManger into a CSV file, I think.

You find the export function in the context menu of each category in the left category list in the address book of Thunderbird 91.

For Thunderbird 102, I have not yet found a way to make the CategoryManager compatible, but IF I get it working, I will migrate the category information into the vCard Categories field.

Ypot commented 2 years ago

You are right, it can export to CSV. I hope ThunderBird gets some support for "Categories" in future versions.

Thanks for your nice work.