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		outop on March 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Friends don't let friends export to CSV It seems that Google generally try and find ways of making exporting their data to use in other services as painful as possible.

nmz on April 1, 2024 [–]

You need newlines in fields, because contacts has addresses, and addresses have newlines. (And also Notes, but that's not as important)

(Oh and I forgot about headers, headers should be mandatory but people are aloof about it)

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