Hi,
attached is a vCard from a contact in current MS Outlook exported to vCard (.vcf), and Murena Contacts refuses to import this (format).
Thanks
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Currently I cannot attach the vCard to this entry (format not allowed for attachments).
rename it 
→ whatever.vcf.txt
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.txt is not allowed as well 
Meanwhile, our SW colleagues discovered the problem’s source: Apparently Murena Contacts has problems with two custom extra fields in the (VCF 2.1 format) vCard. They say it could be done with a manual edit, but IMHO Murena Contacts could simply ignore these fields!
“Outlook has these specific text fields (open in a text editor)
X-MS-OL-DEFAULT-POSTAL-ADDRESS
X-MS-OL-DESIGN;CHARSET=utf-8:<card …>… “
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N;LANGUAGE=de:Sahiti 2;Besart
FN:Besart Sahiti 2
TITLE:Selbstaendiger Finanzberater fuer die Deutsche Bank
TEL;WORK;VOICE:+49 8945993415
TEL;CELL;VOICE:+49 17670886157
ADR;WORK;PREF:;;Weissenburger Platz 8;Muenchen;;81667;Deutschland
LABEL;WORK;PREF;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Weissenburger Platz 8=0D=0A=
81667 Muenchen
X-MS-OL-DEFAULT-POSTAL-ADDRESS:2
URL;WORK:https://www.db-finanzberatung.de/besart_sahiti.html
EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:besart.sahiti@db.com
X-MS-OL-DESIGN;CHARSET=utf-8:GeschäftlichMobiltelefon
REV:20260324T135225Z
END:VCARD
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Ah, you have a so called MS-OXVCARD format. See here. This format allows additional MS-specific entries to the ordinary vCard format, so the Default Postal Address.
You could (just for testing) …
- make a copy of your file,
- delete as much as you can so that only one contact remains,
- delete in the contact all lines beginning with “X-MS-OL-”,
- try to make an import of that contact and then
- have a look what came up this way.
You could also try if a Thunderbird on a PC could import your original file and if this is the case you could let Thunderbird make an export in the hope that the MS additions are gone.
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Removing the two fields mentioned above did NOT do the trick. Following a tip on the internet, I changed the listed vCard version from 2.1 to 3.0. THIS does work… But still I think Murena Contacts should (must) be more tolerant. There are oh so many Outlook installations out there producing vCards…
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Interesting.
Especially from a lot of different historical Office versions.
Generally an import algorithm should import what is to be recognized and ignore all other stuff, so that you have at least a result instead of an error message. If the result is what has been expected is another question.
The Outlook here is the standard (i.e. current) Version of Microsoft 365, so there are millions and millions of comparable situations out there…
In 365 there’s a “classic” Outlook and a “new” one I’ve never seen. And then there are at least five different Office versions before still in use with different updates.
The classic one is the last offline version, and the other one is the current Cloud version. These update automatically.