Karl, et al -- Karl Timmermans wrote: Pretty much anything manageable with a text editor under Linux would do :-) To get really fancy, I'd go with mysql or something that can handle binary data -- but the end goal is still to not be locked into some proprietary format. I don't know what phone I'll have after I leave my current company someday, so I can't say how I'll need to massage the data, so I'll need to be sure that I can get to the data to have my way with it. .. Agreed; CSV is pretty basic and very straightforward. Parsing it isn't all that friendly, but since it's possible to make it properly it's possible to parse it properly. Right. Agreed. Unfortunately, Outlook Export (which does a good job of exporting to CSV; I haven't found any errors or glitches in what I've dumped so far) doesn't remember what file name I used for Contacts vs Notes, so I have to keep renaming. [What I'll actually do, I think, is just dump to a static filename and then rename that when it lands; it's an extra window to have open but it will be much quicker.] Me take 5 minutes? Arrrgh! That's way too long ;-) Once I whip up a script to handle the dump file I should be able to get it down to 2 minutes or just maybe even 1. We'll see :-) Agreed; I think this is how I'll be moving forward. Thanks, too, for the CG clarification; I appreciate it! :-D ______________________________________ Posted from http://outlook-center.com Outlook forums, articles, tips.