Merging Many .VCF Files In One File & Convert To CSV

Phonebook or contact information is the most important part of every mobile user. Most of us have forgotten to keep a written backup of mobile numbers and when we do not have our mobile along, we are helpless. This is also true when you want to change mobile phone or want to transfer complete mobile contact information or phone book. 

You need to export all your contacts to a VCF format file. All type of phones can export the contact to a VCF file. VCF stands for Visiting Card File. When you share contact information through text message or via instant messaging service like WhatsApp the file is exported in VCF format.

Most of the mobiles do have an option to backup your mobile phonebook but they all save the backup file in a proprietary format. Eg. Nokia saves a backup file in .nbf format. You can use that backup file only for other Nokia mobile. (Read How to extract and Read Nokia Backup File like .nbf and .noki) But if you have changed the handset manufacturer this phonebook backup does not come to your help and you have to transfer all these addresses manually.

The other way is to save all your phone-book as a vcf file. All the phones have this feature but the problem is each and every entry is saved as a separate file. So if you have to say 500 contacts, there will be 500 .vcf files. 

VCF

This is the most commonly used contact format. It's called "Visiting Card File/format". You will find this type of contact files when you try to back up your entire contacts from your mobile to the memory card. 

Your mobile will save every contact in one .vcf file. If you want to transfer all your contact from mobile to any other software you have to manually transfer each and every file. So What is the solution to transfer all these contacts at once?

Yes - you need to concatenate or merge all the VCFs into a single file 

1. If you're using windows: 

GOTO Command prompt. (Windows_Key + R)

Run: cmd

2. Change to the directory where all your VCFs are stored

            d:

     cd   \my_vcfs

3. Run this command

                  
copy   /B   *.vcf   all_in_one.vcf

Then just upload the "all_in_one.vcf" file to your software and it will grab all your contacts in one go

CSV

CSV is the most commonly used data management format. Its Comma Separated Value file. You can use simple office excel to edit the file.

Convert .vcf File into .CSV file easily

The online vCard converter will easily convert all your vCard file into CSV. You can download the result and edit it. Just go here LINK

Once you have converted the VCF into CSV, you can Edit the converted.CSV file as you want with this "CSVEd" software which is Free or you can also use MS Excel to do this.

Download CSVEd

If you do not like the CSVEd, you can use more easily and excellent utility which is just 100KB.

Download CSV File View here.

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