{"id":3282,"date":"2014-06-06T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2014\/06\/06\/convert-vcf-to-csv-for-email-contacts\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:01:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:01:28","slug":"convert-vcf-to-csv-for-email-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/convert-vcf-to-csv-for-email-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert .vcf to .csv for Email Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you export contacts from an address book they will be in <span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>.vcf<\/strong><\/span> or <span style=\"color: red;\">vCard<\/span> format. In this guide I&#8217;ll show you how you can <strong>convert<\/strong> these <span style=\"color: red;\">.vcf<\/span> contacts to a <span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>.csv<\/strong><\/span> file instead.<\/p>\n<p>This method works if you&#8217;re trying to <a href=\"\/support\/email\/roundcube-webmail\/export-contact-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">export contacts in RoundCube<\/a>, since it can only export to the vCard format. The <span style=\"color: red;\">.csv<\/span> or comma separated values format is more widely used, so it can be imported into more applications.<\/p>\n<h2>Convert .vcf to .csv with Windows Explorer<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li>Open up Windows Explorer, you can hit <strong>(Windows key + E)<\/strong> to do this<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to your user directory followed by <span style=\"color: red;\">\/contacts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">C:\\Users\\UserName\\Contacts<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click on <strong>Import<\/strong> from the top menu<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>vCard (VCF file)<\/strong> from the import list, click <strong>Import<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Browse to the location of the RoundCube address book your exported, then click <strong>Open<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The contact file should open, just click <strong>OK<\/strong> on each contact in the address book to import it<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re done importing all the contacts, click on <strong>Close<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click on one of your imported contacts and then hit <strong>Ctrl-A<\/strong> to select them all<\/li>\n<li>Now click on <strong>Export<\/strong> from the top menu<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>CSV (Comma Separated Values)<\/strong>, then click <strong>Export<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Browse&#8230;<\/strong>, name your file, then click <strong>Save<\/strong> followed by <strong>Next &gt;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Now select the fields you&#8217;d like to export and click <strong>Finish<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You should now hopefully have all of your email contacts that were in vCard <span style=\"color: red;\">.vcf<\/span> format converted over to <span style=\"color: red;\">.csv<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you export contacts from an address book they will be in .vcf or vCard format. 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