Address book conversion
Here you can convert several E-mail programs' address books into Opera contact list format.
Step one:
- Export your address book from your E-mail program to comma-separated or tab-delimited format. See your E-mail program's help files if you are not sure how to do this.
If your E-mail client can not do this, I'm afraid your address book can not be converted here.
TIP: The next step will be easier if the first entries in your address book have as complete information as possible.
- Click the browse-button (...) below to locate the file you saved in step a.
Privacy statement: the file will be automatically processed and then removed from the server. The E-mail addresses and other information are not made available to me or anyone else during this process, and not harvested, archived, traded or used in any way.
Comments
From Slegg on 2004-10-25 20:17:15
It's a very helpful thing You made here. Some thoughts still... Is it possible to include the "url-of-the-picture"-value also in the selection of categories? And usually the "first name" and the "last name" are comma-separeted, too - therefore it would be nice if I could select "full-name"-value also at least twice. Thnx!
From Karen on 2004-11-21 20:01:37
Great (and fast) converting tool - got the hint at the Opera forum, and had my contacts imported in less than 30 secs!
Thanks a bunch!
From Bernhard Neuhofer on 2004-12-07 00:48:12
Invaluable - much appreciated!
From Hallvord on 2004-12-09 08:19:10
Updates: I've rewritten and simplified the script to add support for picture URL and to make it possible to merge items for any type of entry. That means if you have separate fields for firstname and surname you can now choose to put both into the "Full name" field.
Thanks for your nice and useful feedback, and for using my little tool and my favourite browser :-)
From smelly on 2005-04-15 17:31:26
thanl you thank you thank you
From Kurt Schmitt on 2005-04-17 07:02:57
Thank you! That's a great tool.
From George on 2005-05-13 19:18:36
Great conversion tool. Simple and effective. Thank you very much.
From ice on 2005-05-16 09:28:49
Good work man...really helpfull
From Thomas on 2005-05-28 07:50:36
sorry: "Copy failure, quitting" with my tab-seped outlook export file
From Simon Wenger on 2005-06-06 05:10:08
@ Thomas
I just kicked out all unneeded information (data-fields), then it went ok. Maybe size restriction? Or boolean data fields problem?
From gheorghe salistean on 2005-07-16 09:41:53
thank you it's the best,but I want to know how it works?if you wnt of corse!
whit my consideration!
From Hallvord on 2005-07-16 16:29:32
How it works.. well, I'm not sure if I remember :) but it is quite simple because Opera's contact list is saved as a plain text file (called contacts.adr). You can open in in a text editor like Notepad and you will see that the listing is quite simply organised. That makes it WAY easier to write a script that takes information from somewhere and creates an Opera contacts list.
The PHP source is slightly messy and badly commented, suffering from having been patched at various times when I didn't have a clear sense of how I had organised the old code. Anyone who is still interested in nitty-gritty details can mail me to get a copy.
From Pete Turier on 2005-07-24 16:27:45
Great programme, thanks for saving me re-typing my whole address book!!
Pete.
From Bruce on 2005-08-31 13:22:45
Hi,
I also am getting a "Copy Failure" message.
It's a pretty big file, around 300 contacts.
That's too bad.
From Bruce on 2005-08-31 13:33:50
I used "Dawn" to convert it to a csv file then used this page to convert it to an Opera file. That worked!
From Scott on 2005-09-01 06:22:49
Worked almost 100%. After a little clean-up, its great! thanks!!
From Noel Harrison on 2005-09-04 11:45:29
Can't get file to upload to you; did you get my file sep2005addr.csv?
From Gregory on 2005-09-08 20:33:20
very confusing. I finally gave up. When oh when will Opera make a half-ways decent importing program. IE and Mozilla have done this child's play for years now.
From Robert on 2005-09-11 18:58:54
Great tool exactly what i was after, worked perfectly thankyou :)
From Mike on 2005-09-20 20:31:47
Thanx...It worked like a charm....I did it using Outlook Contacts...Helped out a lot
From OX on 2005-09-22 19:34:44
Brilliant!! So simple and effective. Thank you for making this tool available.
From Allen Day on 2005-09-22 20:27:53
This worked perfectly, thanks! I was searching for a web-based converter so I could transfer my gmail address book to Opera's M2.
If there are any other Gmail users who want to "export" their address books, it's as simple as this:
View your contacts, select "All Contacts", click at the very beginning of the first name in your address book and drag it to the end of the last address -- copy that text. Paste it in a text editor. You'll probably have to indent the first item with a tab as the tab won't copy and it'll mess up the alignment with the rest of your addresses. Finally, save that file -- you now have a tab delimited address list. Finally, you can use this to convert that into an Opera address book. If you have a lot of other info on your gmail contacts (other than name/e-mail) you might run into some trouble with this, though.
From ruq on 2005-09-22 21:57:14
thanks for your assistance, much appreciated and invaluable.
From mma on 2005-10-03 12:22:34
fast and easy. Perfect tool.
From Rijo on 2005-11-21 09:39:48
Thanks hallvord. I just made use of this tool and works great... thanks once again.
From Dick Evans on 2005-12-08 13:09:39
Took me longer to read the instructions than to do it, and it worked great!
Thanks.
From lop on 2005-12-16 22:41:54
Hi Hallvord,
Thanks for the convertor: Works great, although I do believe Opera should include this as standard (at the very least as a plug-in). Put it foward to your boss ;-P
From Rainer on 2005-12-23 00:31:46
Thank You so much! Your tool helped me importing all my Thunderbird-Adressbooks very quickly. First I struggled a little but then I found that after importing I need to click >Extras >Adressbook to find the imported file...
From Antonio Tort on 2006-01-04 05:05:31
Hi. I'm new to Opera. I think it is much better than others I've used but... I wish I could say the same about e-mail !
I tried to use your conversion utility but I always see the same screen:
"Copy failure, quitting".
I 've exported contacts file from Outlook 2003 ok. (I've tested .csv file in several programs). What else can I try?
Thanks in advance
From Daniel on 2006-01-14 00:17:04
That's a great service you're offering - I don't know why my Opera wasn't able to import the address book from OE, but your site really made my day... :) Thanks for the good work!
From Lotti on 2006-01-15 23:56:48
thank you so much!
From Sebastian on 2006-01-24 01:58:43
Man, what a cool programm. Thanks a ton!
From Fred Nilsen on 2006-04-20 12:26:11
Hei.
Da har jeg provd nok en gang, men faar dette bare ikke til, prover aa convertere Outlook contacts, men jeg maate bare gi opp, er det noen som vet ???
Fred
From Matthias on 2006-06-28 23:18:23
Thank you for this simple and easy way to import contact data. Save me a lot of time ! For the future, pleas add a field for the folder-name.
From Mike on 2006-07-21 11:44:26
Sweet Site bud. I'm happy I didn't have to type everything out.
I acually almost passed over this site as I thought it converted .adr into other formats. Dumb on my part but unless you clearly read it you wouldn't know. Think it's possible to make a nice big title telling everyone who can't read like me just what this beautiful tool does?
Either way thanks :)
From Hank Browne on 2006-11-22 15:18:38
First, there is no "browse" button. Second, I have no idea what to do after creating the .csv file.
From Marvin on 2006-12-23 20:55:15
Worked perfectly. Thank you.
From Pierre on 2006-12-25 02:52:14
Super, merci beaucoup!
From Alex on 2007-02-05 04:53:00
Thanx a lot for this stuff
MVH
AF
From Deniz on 2007-03-25 13:05:13
Thanks a lot. It is a wonderful tool.
From erna on 2007-04-27 12:40:00
Thanks, it worked: with your help I imported my contactlist in Opera.
From Jose Mejia on 2007-07-02 05:39:47
Worked GREAT!! THANKS!!
From King on 2007-12-18 11:58:24
thank you
King
From Richard on 2008-01-11 06:50:03
amazing tool. Had no luck whatsoever getting contacts from yahoo mail -> thunderbird -> opera.
Just a thought though: why on earth do brilliant people like yourself have to make these tools for??? I wouldn't have used opera for my email because I would be stuck with it. Now, thanks to you I can!! - and yahoo for storing my emails online and giving pop access
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