Adding your Thunderbird contacts to GMail
As part of my ongoing saga to get my Blackberry to a usable condition with all of my contacts, I’ve been wanting to put all of my contacts into Gmail. While the Thunderbird plugin Zindus works magic for syncing your contacts, I’m having real trouble getting contacts to work between GMail (which, thanks to Google Mobile Sync, now only holds my phone’s address book) and Thunderbird, which holds all of my emails. I’ve decided to import all of my Thunderbird contacts to GMail and then edit them from there. Unfortunately, whenever you import things into GMail from Thunderbird in Thunderbird’s default .CSV file, GMail doesn’t properly parse the contact info. Luckily, I found this blog post with a solution. It only works for Linux users, but that’s fine with me.
The only real problem with this solution is that GMail doesn’t offer a ‘merge contacts’ option. I don’t exactly know why they don’t, seeing as how it doesn’t seem like a hard thing to implement and even Hotmail has it. Until they implement it, however, I’m stuck with manually editing contacts. This is going to take quite a while…
Tags: Blackberry, GMail, Thunderbird
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