Saved me time, but lots of room for improvement

I bought this (including the in-app purchase of batch conversion functionality) to move a bunch of Outlook contact msg files to Contacts.app. I was able to use it to get the job done, but the apps limitations meant I needed to go card by card to get some things right.

As all the contacts were saved as msg files and I no longer have access the PC they came from, I used the batch converter to convert them to vcf files and then imported them to Contacts.app.

- The msg files contain both Japanese and Chinese text. Although Klammer properly displayed the Japanese and Chinese text when opening one msg file at a time, it turned all of it into non-sensical characters in the converted vcf files. I couldnt figure out a way to make the conversion work, so I had to go through contact by contact to copy and paste any Japanese/Chinese from the viewer to imported vcf files in Contacts.app.

- 23 of the 521 converted vcf files could not be imported into Contacts.app. Klammer gave no warning of any issues, nor did Contacts.app when I dragged and dropped all 521 into the app. I discovered it by noting the numerical discrepancy. When the 23 were dragged in on their own, Contacts.app gave an error that said "No importable cards were found." For some reason, Klammer made 23 vcf files that could not be imported, which is about a 4% error rate. Ultimately, I used Klammer to view the data in each of the respective msg files, copied and pasted that field by field into a spreadsheet, and then imported the spreadsheet into Contacts.app.

- The department field was simply skipped in at least some cases. I didnt bother to fix these. Instead, Ill just use Klammer to open the original msg files if I ever really do need it.

- It displayed and created vcf with all address fields included twice. As this was just duplicative information, I just left it in.

- When you open a msg file, it always opens to a set size, rather than remembering the window size you chose. I was copying and pasting a lot from the notes, which are at the bottom, so the fixed size meant I needed to scroll down on almost every card, slowing down the process.

- The work telephone field also went missing in many cases. I couldnt get this to display in Klammer, so it might be an issue with the export from Outlook (these were exported by simply dragging and dropping to a folder). Since I no longer have access to the original files, I cant be sure about the origin of this issue.

That all said, the app did save a great deal of time when compared to needing to reenter the contacts from business cards. However, by fixing the issues noted above, it could save a lot more.

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