![]() I exported Google CSV from Google, then imported this file into the Thunderbird desktop app on Linux. Later on, I was able to identify a few of the missing contacts by spot checking, but this is a bit of a hassle, and even for the contacts that did import there were still some missing fields. While importing, Contacts said there were “13 import errors,” but did not name which contacts errored, and the true number of lost contacts was much greater than 13. ![]() I had n contacts in Google, but Nextcloud showed only 0.9n contacts after import. I exported vCard from Google, then imported this file using the Nextcloud Contacts web interface. ![]() Note that Google contacts provides 3 export formats: If the import process fails on a few contacts and requires me to manually make corrections, that’s fine, but I would like to be alerted about which data failed to parse, rather than discover 6 months from now that I don’t have someone’s address where I thought I did. I’ve tried several approaches, as I explain below, but all of them have silently errored in ways that make it hard for me to trust them. But a lot of those threads are fairly old, and my issue isn’t with a specific bug, but rather, I’m looking for a reliable pipeline for getting my contacts out of Google and into the Nextcloud app. I read a few questions here about bugs related to importing contacts from Google, e.g.
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