Contact Import interface not intuitive, cannot ignore source column

[David Lee Lambert]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Trying to import some GMail contacts into Thunderbird address book, GMail has two different CSV export formats ("Google", "Outlook", and a VCard format; but the import-wizard does not have an option for VCF files). The import-wizard comes up with the 37 columns that Thunderbird uses on the left-hand side (I would expect them on the right, since data is coming into the application). One of those CSV formats has 55 columns; the other has 88. What happened to all my other columns?

Also, every time I click on a column to move it up or down, that deselects it ... I have to click again to select it again.

Finally, a feature to concatenate multiple fields in the imported contacts-list into one field in the Thunderbird address book, especially the "Notes" or "custom 1" field, would be nice. See also bug 600755.

I guess I could work around this by doing the column-shuffling in a spreadsheet; or if there was a VCF to LDIF converter somewhere, that might help too.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installed: 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.3
  Candidate: 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.3
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello David,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird.

You made this bug report in 2011 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 753537

and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.

G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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