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Getting Started / Re: fatal error after .csv upload, debian stable, feng v. 2.0
« on: March 27, 2012, 12:03:27 pm »
For others to know, I eventually succeeded in uploading/importing a CSV,
but here's the deal.
Do NOT try this with the mess of a .csv you get from exporting gmail contacts.
I had to take the csv and do some editing to it.
First, I removed everything but
"firstname","lastname","email"
I also did a s/;/,/g
(ie., replace semicolons with commas).
Make sure your csv is utf8 encoded, and has no special characters.
(ie, "foreign" characters, like ñ, ç, é, etc.)
Then, on import, make sure you uncheck all the fields that are not included, so that only "first name", "last name" and "email" are checked.
This worked for me, where the initial csv did not.
but here's the deal.
Do NOT try this with the mess of a .csv you get from exporting gmail contacts.
I had to take the csv and do some editing to it.
First, I removed everything but
"firstname","lastname","email"
I also did a s/;/,/g
(ie., replace semicolons with commas).
Make sure your csv is utf8 encoded, and has no special characters.
(ie, "foreign" characters, like ñ, ç, é, etc.)
Then, on import, make sure you uncheck all the fields that are not included, so that only "first name", "last name" and "email" are checked.
This worked for me, where the initial csv did not.